tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post4308868251272983473..comments2024-03-24T05:54:23.612-05:00Comments on Weedon's Blog: How oddWilliam Weedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01383850332591975790noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-68378487930709367702007-11-22T21:15:00.000-06:002007-11-22T21:15:00.000-06:00Past Elder,May Nancy's memory be eternal! I'm sur...Past Elder,<BR/><BR/>May Nancy's memory be eternal! I'm sure that not a thanksgiving comes or goes without thanking God for her heavenly homecoming.<BR/><BR/>Lutheran Lady,<BR/><BR/>I'm sorry to hear your loss of husband and children. That is a hard cross to bear, and yet "precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints."<BR/><BR/>Pax Christi!William Weedonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01383850332591975790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-47691593642987686872007-11-22T13:33:00.000-06:002007-11-22T13:33:00.000-06:00Dear Pastor Weedon,Thank-you for sharing your memo...Dear Pastor Weedon,<BR/><BR/>Thank-you for sharing your memories of your mother. She sounds like a wonderful woman and I am sorry that she is not with you now. I too, had loved ones who passed on early - my husband and two children. May you and your family be especially blessed above and beyond all I can hope, imagine, or ask for during this holiday season.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-63372424395373861952007-11-22T10:33:00.000-06:002007-11-22T10:33:00.000-06:00We have similar "oddities" at Thanksgiving, Pastor...We have similar "oddities" at Thanksgiving, Pastor.<BR/><BR/>Yesterday, Thanksgiving Eve, it was ten years since Nancy died at 2140 hours.<BR/><BR/>It took two burly brothers-in-law to hold me up after that happened.<BR/><BR/>That was in the moment, but what amazes me is that I have been held up since then by something else.<BR/><BR/>I have no idea why I, who had made having a crisis of faith something of an adult life style for twenty some years, and was a professed and professing confessional Lutheran not quite a year at the time, did not take this as a final insult from a God who doesn't exist and curse him. That would be the real me.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe I do. Faith is indeed entirely the gift and work of God in the Holy Ghost, just as our confessions state, since something has happened in me entirely beyond my capacity to produce, and for which I am as grateful as one simul peccator et justus can be this day.<BR/><BR/>BTW, Nancy was 43 and I was 47 when our younger and last son was born. Maybe our kids will comment on each other's blogs, or whatever they are doing in the future!<BR/><BR/>Nancy's funeral was the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The concluding words of her funeral sermon are etched in my mind:<BR/><BR/>A few days ago most of us celebrated a thanksgiving that lasted one day, but Nancy began one that lasts an eternity.<BR/><BR/>RIP Babe.Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.com