Different Answer…

My friend passed away and I am heartbroken. I am going through all the normal emotions that partner with a death.

I have cried, shared tears with mutual friends as we share our shock, disbelief, sorrow, and memories. Smiles mingled with tears as Lucha gave us all plenty to smile about and remember.

However, her passing wasn’t the desired answer of our hopeful prayers. We of course prayed for the Lord’s will to be done!!! Then we loudly and continually prayed for healing, for her eyes to open as tho she had just taken an extended nap! For everything to go back to the way it was before Saturday evening.

The Lords will be done! That opens our prayer, it’s our way of asking for the very best! God’s Will-Not Ours. We only see one side, the side down here but we know there are always two sides to a story. God’s story!

So, along with prayers that Lucha wake up had to be accompanied by the unselfish prayers. Prayers for Lucha, not us! Lucha, was full of life and always on the go, doing something, taking care of someone, a helping heart, and had a natural spontaneous way of spreading her infectious joy and laughter. What if the heart attack, lack of oxygen to her brain because of, thus causing the coma would have robbed her of her! Then what??? To be possibly trapped in a body that no longer worked or her quick witted brain to have become slow and uncertain!!! Lucha would have hated that!!!

So, painful as it is, sad as it feels, we turn to the Lord for his word and comfort.

Ecclesiastes 3:2 NLT “A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time of harvest.”

Proverbs 3:5 NLT “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.”

Matthew 5:4 ESV “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

“Lord Jesus, I come before you this morning in mourning of the loss of someone special in my life and in the lives of so many others. There is great sadness among us, shock, unbelief and we’re still reeling. I ask you Lord to comfort all who are hurting right now, please dry the tears that are falling and help your understanding to blossom in our hearts. We’ve lost some one special but heaven is adorned with her beauty. I will see you again dear Lucha, one day girlfriend as we will share eternity. Give her a hug dear Lord and let her know she’ll be so very missed. In your glorious name lord Jesus, I commit the broken hearts that you our mighty physician can start to mend. Amen 🙏

Thank you for joining me. 🥰