The first Monday of the new year has arrived and with it the news of the passing of my former neighbor in Sidney. For my friends at Cabela's this is like a kick while they are down, bad news at a time when good news would be welcomed and is greatly needed. Cancer is still a tough one; many do not survive that first diagnosis. Cancer seems like a prosecution where the accused does not get to hear the charges against him until the sentence is passed. In some cases, it seems that every time the defendant is allowed to return to his family another judgment against him has been passed while he was serving the first sentence.
Of course when one falls we are reminded that we too stand under sentence of death. What will get us? Will it be quick or prolonged? Why can't the Rapture come first? What might Thad or my uncle Kenneth (passed last November), or the many others we knew say to us now? Probably they would let us know about Jesus and His unfailing love and goodness. They might urge us strongly to let go of the worry and embrace the Savior. We cannot know every mortal peril that lurks around the next corner in life, but we do know someone who has gone down to death and the grave, and best of all - He rose again!
To those we will meet in the resurrection and to those we suffer with daily in this life, God's blessings and love to you and yours until we meet again.
Bucky
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