tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post396917462677485666..comments2024-03-24T05:54:23.612-05:00Comments on Weedon's Blog: St. Mark's HomilyWilliam Weedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01383850332591975790noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-17134993642664846732007-04-25T09:36:00.000-05:002007-04-25T09:36:00.000-05:00Thanks for the kind words, Nan. Sorry to hear abo...Thanks for the kind words, Nan. Sorry to hear about your mother. But amen to "at the grave we make our song: alleluia!"<BR/><BR/>One that always comforts me as well is the last stanza of "Jesus lives!"<BR/><BR/>Jesus lives and now is death<BR/>but the gate to life immortal.<BR/>This shall calm my trembling breath<BR/>when I pass its gloomy portal.<BR/>Faith shall cry as fails each sense:<BR/>"Jesus is my confidence!"William Weedonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01383850332591975790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-61083943558258304892007-04-24T20:08:00.000-05:002007-04-24T20:08:00.000-05:00"...but we know with certainty why it transpired. ..."...but we know with certainty why it transpired. You cannot live in the love of Jesus Christ and harbor resentment. You cannot live in the forgiveness of Christ and refuse to forgive. It’s impossible."<BR/><BR/>For many reasons, a reminder of a truth that is balm to my soul.<BR/><BR/>I just wanted to let you know how much support and comfort I have received listening again to your series on sickness, death and dying that I had downloaded from the issues, ect. archives. I came across them a few nites ago on one of many long nites I have been spending at the hospital with my mother who is very ill. <BR/><BR/>"yet even at the grave we make our song:<BR/>Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia."<BR/><BR/>nanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com