Ache and Glory, Blended Collectively

“Jesus replied, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I let you know the reality, except a kernel of wheat falls to the bottom and dies, it stays solely a single seed. But when it dies, it produces many seeds. The person who loves his life will lose it, whereas the person who hates his life on this world will maintain it for everlasting life.’” John 12:23-25

This world has so many griefs, and the older you get, the extra the griefs pile on. An expensive man, a father of ten, who I revered as a father as a lot as any father I’ve recognized, just lately died in his sixties, a sufferer of mind most cancers. He confronted his dying with such braveness, religion and charm, however he left behind so many grieving relations and pals who would have beloved extra time with him.

One of the best man at my wedding ceremony survived his first two therapies for most cancers, however now lives with the uncertainty of figuring out this type of most cancers is rarely absolutely gone, it’s simply latent, able to spring forth once more.

A school good friend of mine simply misplaced his thirty-something son in an industrial accident. A fellow pastor misplaced his daughter to what was doubtless a drug overdose in the identical week. One other pastor good friend has an estranged youngster. A beloved relative of ours has gone by means of a brutal stretch making an attempt to conceive, and cease shedding, younger life in her womb.

When will all of it finish? The sobering fact is just not on this planet.

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