For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
In His name, Amen.
My heart is broken today, our family is crying. My dear aunt Joelle is going to be with the Lord as I type. Her sons and my mom are with her in the other room. She was put on hospice Friday after declining from a fall and head injury. She is 64, born November 18th, 1953. She was in poor health for a while before we moved her in here. She caught the flu around Christmas and was slowly bouncing back until the fall. She spent her life striving to make others happy.
Holy Father, take her into your loving arms.