Saturday, October 17, 2015

Victory In Jesus

Wouldn't you know. This is a day unlike any other and yet sadly like every other. One day God gives breath, and another breath escapes at last. A sweet sweet friend, Mrs. Ethel Jones, passed away this morning. An amazing and sweet woman who loves this song.

She surely is smiling in Heaven, resting on God's heavenly porch and singing this song with us. She saw much pain and much tragedy and smiled right through it.

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As a good friend said, "cry, throw yourself a pity party and move forward". [about my hormonal swings]

Here though, I will cry in words, and give it up the Lord. He holds my sweet friend and she is all the better for being there. I will miss her always.

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There was a porch
with white steps
and bushes hugging

we spent hours
clipping and cutting

but nothing
was as special as the sweet words
she spoke

I sat a spell with her
knowing now what that means
a moment
where much is gleaned
magic cast
as she shared her past
the good
the bad
the ugly
and the victory given
by our Savior and how he lived it

and with each passing breath
so much depth
and joy
for one who had little
had suffered much
and yet was richer than all the world

and so
forever she lives
beneath the cleansing flood
forever washed in His blood
a testament

to what it meant

to have Victory in Jesus.


                                                 RIP to the beautiful, Mrs. Ethel Jones


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