maureen gold...loving wife, mother, sister and friend
i have been blessed to observe one of the most beautiful creations of our great God unfolding before my eyes over the past few weeks, and today it struck me just how passively i have observed the awesome movements of our Creator.
i visited my good friend timmy's blog (http://potergoodness.blogspot.com) and he was talking about how we are all created in Christ as God's workmanship...each of us, little pieces of art, invented, designed and put into motion by The Artist! the beauty of this picture in my mind began to highlight all the ways i have seen God's hand moving in my life and the lives of those i love over the past few weeks.
yesterday i attended the funeral of my dear friend's mother. she was only 55 and died of liver cancer. one of the most dedicated nutrionists i ever knew...always sending me articles about things like coQ-10, msm...etc. and in life's bitter irony, her soul was lifted from this planet so much sooner than anyone would have expected.
it was weird because i really hadn't taken the time to process her death, the loss of her presence, and the really real impact that would have on the life of my precious friend (who has just become a mother herself), the impact it would have on my own mother (who was very close to her), or even the impact it would have on myself.
yesterday afternoon, as i sat in a sanctuary filled...really filled...with so many people who had felt the touch of this woman in their lives i was overwhelmed with the realization of the awesome awesome tapestry that our heavenly Father weaves as He slowly and unassumingly weaves the lives of His precious children together...i lifted my head and realized i sat in a room overflowing with my brothers and sisters!
in a sense, we are all together in eternity right now. all of us...whose souls belong to Christ...are already in heaven together, although time chooses to hold some of us on this spinning globe for a season...there are those who have gone ahead of us to join our souls in heaven where we will all one day be and really already are.
it is a paradox i can hardly begin to wrap my mind around...but what it brings to light for me is the beauty of the body of Christ so very very real as it is manifested in the network of christian souls that are being knit together here on earth moment by moment!
from my perspective, it is this community...His Church...the Body...a temple of living stones...that i all too often take for granted and overlook. seize it! take hold of it! we are the manifestation of heaven on earth! together we are the pocket of eternity that presently intersects this finite world.
i visited my good friend timmy's blog (http://potergoodness.blogspot.com) and he was talking about how we are all created in Christ as God's workmanship...each of us, little pieces of art, invented, designed and put into motion by The Artist! the beauty of this picture in my mind began to highlight all the ways i have seen God's hand moving in my life and the lives of those i love over the past few weeks.
yesterday i attended the funeral of my dear friend's mother. she was only 55 and died of liver cancer. one of the most dedicated nutrionists i ever knew...always sending me articles about things like coQ-10, msm...etc. and in life's bitter irony, her soul was lifted from this planet so much sooner than anyone would have expected.
it was weird because i really hadn't taken the time to process her death, the loss of her presence, and the really real impact that would have on the life of my precious friend (who has just become a mother herself), the impact it would have on my own mother (who was very close to her), or even the impact it would have on myself.
yesterday afternoon, as i sat in a sanctuary filled...really filled...with so many people who had felt the touch of this woman in their lives i was overwhelmed with the realization of the awesome awesome tapestry that our heavenly Father weaves as He slowly and unassumingly weaves the lives of His precious children together...i lifted my head and realized i sat in a room overflowing with my brothers and sisters!
in a sense, we are all together in eternity right now. all of us...whose souls belong to Christ...are already in heaven together, although time chooses to hold some of us on this spinning globe for a season...there are those who have gone ahead of us to join our souls in heaven where we will all one day be and really already are.
it is a paradox i can hardly begin to wrap my mind around...but what it brings to light for me is the beauty of the body of Christ so very very real as it is manifested in the network of christian souls that are being knit together here on earth moment by moment!
from my perspective, it is this community...His Church...the Body...a temple of living stones...that i all too often take for granted and overlook. seize it! take hold of it! we are the manifestation of heaven on earth! together we are the pocket of eternity that presently intersects this finite world.
posted by r.m. @ 9:18 AM
2 Comments:
At 1:12 PM, March 04, 2005,
Timmay! said…
My life can get so full of mundane details that I sometimes forget about what it really is all about. I forget quite often that being a shared heir with Christ doesn't just bring me eternal life, but also brings me into the family of God.
At 3:58 PM, March 04, 2005,
r.m. said…
agreed. its good to be surrounded by community, and its even better when i take a moment to appreciate what that means!
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