Today, Easter Sunday, a day of joy and happiness didn't end the way it started.
At church we have been talking about HOPE and that there is always some good in every bad situation. Last weekend I taught the first half of a story and then the second half was told this weekend. The lesson last week was having having HOPE in the tough areas of life.
I talked to them about how sometimes the bad might be missing out on something or not getting to go somewhere they were planning to go. But there's also some good in those situations. Then I told them that maybe sometimes its something that come right out of the blue and blindsides us and we don't even see it coming.
That lead me to telling them the story of my Grandma, who was doing just fine, then all of a sudden she had a severe stroke. She slowly recovered from that, but shortly thereafter (I believe) she had another mild stroke from which she never recovered from and she passed away last August. That's the bad.
The good.
She doesn't feel anymore pain. She doesn't stumble and fall. She doesn't have all of the earthly problems that used to bother her. She is healed and she is doing well with the Lord.
Today I was blindsided again. I called my dad to see if he could help me do something and he told me that grandpa was in the hospital again. (He had been in and out of the hospital over the last few months.) We thought maybe it was something minor. But this time that was not the case. I then received a call from mom saying that dad had called her and that he didn't sound like it was good news and that she was going up there to be with him. She said from me to stay around town and wait to see. My mom called me about 30 minutes after that and told me that we should come up that it doesn't look good. We got there and it wasn't very long after that.
Grandpa (Lyle) Pierce went Home around 6pm.
He will be happy to know that my son Emmerson Lyle James will carry his name. I think that would make him smile.
These situations make me very glad for the people that I have in my life. The church that I attend always seems (here lately) to be having something going on, whether it's upstairs or a lesson in Kid's Ministry, that relates to me in my life. It's great that we are talking about HOPE. This is our memory verse...
John 16:33
New
International Version (NIV)
33 “I have told you these things, so that in
me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I
have overcome the world.”
Something good always comes out of the bad. We just have to look past the bad to see the good.
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