grieving

A small group of us were still gathered after church when the news came—a dear brother in the Lord we had been praying for, died. A couple weeks earlier, the doctors had said the cancer was too widespread, too severe. “There is nothing else we can do.” But knowing God could, many people continued fervently in prayer. Yet . . . the miracle didn’t come. This latest blow hit on the heels of the shock from six days earlier—when the man’s wife unexpectedly passed away in her sleep at home. A heart attack, it was determined. Why?? We quickly reconvened…