Some, if not all, will invariably wonder when our final appointment is and under what circumstances. I was challenged by my friend's grandmother's legacy of faith to view this as something we should not try to control. What's you goal?
Goal....
Would you make it your goal to end your life your way, on your terms, and in your own time if diagnosed with an incurable, debilitating disease?
I've often thought I would. After all, who wants to suffer without an immediate end in sight and excruciatingly? NO ONE!
Tonight I went to the service of a friend's loved one who planned for sometime to do just that because she was diagnosed with MS forty five years ago. She kept drugs in a secure place to reach for when she had had enough.
Yet as time went on and she grew stronger in her faith, she got rid of the drugs and acknowledged her times were in God's hands.
STOP
Matthew 28:20 "teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (NASB)
I was inspired by the life of my friend's grandmother tonight. She lived many years beyond what doctors anticipated. Her children and grandchildren shared how she continued to do everything she could for as long as she could. She always had a smile. She was anything BUT bitter and angry. She lived a full life and gave glory to God in and through her suffering. We celebrate the newness of life and vitality she now enjoys for all eternity.
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