Today’s Thought “On the Front Row…” G. Ward

Revelation 21:4 “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

There’s surety in ceremony whereby the living grieve their loved one’s departure. The preliminary in pomp and circumstance has many with tremendous expressions of sympathy that includes bringing too much food onto the homes of the bereaved as if the appetites of those depressed are gargantuan. The culminating ceremony is sometimes referred to as shedding closure. Reasonable compassion however, may interrogate one’s own recall in losing close friends or family whereby ceremony never contemplated those miserable days or years following.

America’s chant of “what a shame” that devotes cases of water, fried chicken and monetary gifts, must never become the substitute that attains to the feather in the cap syndrome, but must consider walking alongside the weak as we too have been granted greater grace (1 Thess.5:11). Praying for The Tree of Life Synagogue…