Several years ago a young woman in our
congregation died of medical problems brought on by undiagnosed Lyme disease.
As I was preparing for her funeral, her mother told me that her daughter had
written on her mirror in lipstick the words from Psalm 118:14 (NIV): “The LORD
is my strength and my song.” This was the living hope of a dying girl. Her hope
in God sustained her, and the hope of the resurrection sustained her mother and
her father.
The mother later told me that she and
her husband had bought a hope chest for their daughter, and they placed within
it certain of the special things that belonged to her and then placed it at the
end of their bed. This was a different kind of hope chest; it was a reminder
that one day they would see their daughter again.
I have come to appreciate how Frederick
Buechner captures this when he said, “Resurrection means the worst thing is
never the last thing.”
-- Adam Hamilton in Why? - Making Sense of God’s Will
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