The Hope

We have had a difficult Easter week. Jennifer's grandmother died in a car accident on Tuesday. The Easter holiday will be difficult without Nanny as she always wanted her family to congregate around her dinner table at Easter after worship. This has been a struggle for Jacob as well and I will update his page soon. However, with Easter comes that ultimate truth and hope that comes from nowhere else. Nanny followed and trusted Christ. She knew that hope and reflected it to those who knew her. Good Friday marks the day that Christ removed the sting of sin and death forever as well as commemorates his own, abbreviated funeral. The great news is that a funeral is not the end of the story. Christ rose again on that first Easter Sunday and it is by that same power that Nanny and those of us who know Christ are transformed. It is by that power we know a funeral is not the end of our story either. We grieve, no doubt, but we grieve with hope, faith, and love. We stand at a funeral and our Lord stands with us weeping as he did at Lazarus' funeral. We stand at an empty tomb and discover the story and our very life has just begun. I hope all who read this know the Hope that Nanny did. For her, that Hope is now fulfilled and realized. We thank God that we were able to see His reflection in her life. We thank God that her funeral is not the end of her story. We thank God that it is He, and not death, that has the final word.