Good Saturday morning! I'm hoping you can work at home doing something you enjoy this morning. A classmate posted her separation on Facebook. Our family saw the grim spectre of separation pass close by this past week, but it has moved on for now. We also suffer separations in this life. Divorce, job loss, people moving on to a new opportunity, or a child leaving the home all give us pain in this life. While some separations are more painful than others, we all walk through the valley of death's shadow every day. Even a joyful separation such as a child marrying and moving away to the city causes a little pain in the separation. We don't get to keep everyone we love close by in this life. When one moves on into the next life, that separation is quite grim for those of us left to say, "farewell for this brief time!"
Though we go about our duties, work, and play, the grim spectre of separation haunts us with occasional reminders. Of course, we also have those times in this life when we suggest to the Lord that a good time for the rapture of the church has arrived. In the moment, we would gladly separate ourselves from the world to avoid some pain. Since we're all still here, I can assume that prayer didn't work. We look to the rapture as a way not to enable the grim spectre, but to defeat it. Jesus rose from the dead to prove to us that He had overcome death, the substance of the shadow I am calling a grim spectre this morning. With Jesus holding the victory over the substance, we need not fear the shadow. Separations hurt us, but one day Jesus will hold the big reunion, the one that never ends. I look forward to seeing y'all there!
Love in Christ,Bucky
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