Tomorrow makes 1 Year ▪️ 365 DAYS ▪️… when you left for your eternal home in heaven. 😩😢😇 I have literally dreaded this day because even though I know you’re no longer here, a full year seems to REALLY solidify that you are gone. I will no longer have any more “this time last year memories,” and it just plain hurts!
As I reflect on undoubtedly the hardest year of my life, I marvel at how God has truly carried me through. 🙌🙏 I never expect anything from anyone, but so many people have consistently demonstrated the tangible love of Jesus to me in so many varying ways and I am truly grateful to all! The prayers of the righteous have gotten me through this year; and I smile knowing that my mom’s life was well lived and she was undoubtedly well loved.
Mom, you got a glimpse of Glory and that’s where you wanted to be. I am comforted in knowing the devil did not win. You’re healed and made whole! My faith yet remains undeterred. You see, sometimes we get to witness the beauty of healing happen on Earth, and sometimes God’s miraculous healing happens in heaven!!! It doesn’t change who God is or God’s promise. God is good and can do anything but fail. The devil did not win! My mom’s legacy lives on and we (me and my family) are living life victoriously (Romans 8:37-39)!!!
Yet even in the midst of all these things, we triumph over them all, for God has made us to be more than conquerors, and his demonstrated love is our glorious victory over everything! So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that his love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken his love. There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One!” Romans 8:37-39
Stephanie Gary, M.S.Ed 