November 9th, 2015
Dear Friends,
Today, at 5:05 p.m., my mother went to be with the Lord. As some of you may know, she had a stroke that bleed into here brain on Nov 5th at 1:30 pm. She was hospitalized and was sedated and examined ever since that time. After a few days it was shown she would not be able to recover and life support was pulled at 1 pm this afternoon. She remained under sedation and lingered for a few hours. Again, at 5:05 p.m. she gave up the ghost and went to be with her redeemer and savior, Jesus. She was in no pain and slowly slumbered into eternity.
While it would be easy to morn her, the morning would solely be for OUR loss. She is more alive now than she was ever before. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. I for one, stand to have the most to bemoan by OUR loss as she was my business partner, my room mate, my best friend and my mother all in one. However, I SHALL not begrudge her one moment, with the Lord, rather than slumming it with the likes of me and the rest of humanity.
Will we miss her? Yes, but we will not miss what she "has been" to us. We are only missing what she "might have" been to us. None of us are promised one more minute of our life, so we can not say we would have a "might have" gained. It is only a loss if you treat it as such, I had 47 years with her. This means that I have to live 47 more years to have lost her even half my life. I don't intend to be here for that long. When you lay my life on the balance, I am far better off for having known and been loved by her (and loving her) than to never to have known her. So it is not a loss. It is a blessing to have 47 years with someone you love and has loved you back. Each of us has been touched by a part of her life. Rather than seeing the void, let us take the time to examine the hole that she has filled in each of us.
I know, like you, I will see things or think of things that will make me tearful and think of her (I am surrounded by her belongings). Would she want you to wept at them? No? Do you think she wants your memories of her to be connected with sorrow? No? Remember her fondly and know that she is more ALIVE today than ever before as she is just getting a glimpse of an eternity with her creator and Savior. She accepted His blood to cover for her sins which was paid ONCE AND FOR ALL on the cross.
She did not change status, but simply address. If you wish to see her again, it is as simple as 1. Confessing you are a sinner in need of a savior. 2. Recognizing that God loved you so much that He took on the form of flesh and walked among us where he lived without sin, he then suffered and died in our place to pay the wages for our sinful lives and rose again to glory. 3. We must accept this gift of his substitutionary death in our place and stop trying to earn our own ways into heaven. (Why would Christ cry out "It is finished" [paid in full] if there was something we could do to save ourselves? Why would we attempt to do part of the "surgery" with our "dirty hands" rather than allowing a "surgeon" with "clean hands" to do it all? 4. We live lives to honor our Lord (This is not payment for "surgery" [sin removal] as the Bible says that Christ sacrifice was a gift, but rather as a way to thank the "surgeon".) Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments".
I would like to thank each of your for holding a special part of her earthly life. The reason I can write you is she valued you enough to have contact information for you or that the Lord has directed you here. My mother was a private person and when she cared enough to keep touch with you, this means you held a certain place in her heart. It is often hard to tell people how much they mean to you as; we do not know how, we do not often think to do so, or we just forget that time is short. Gloria (my mom) talked about everyone of her friends every day. Thank you for being part of her earthly life. Because she is no longer with us in the flesh, I would like to ask you if you have not known Christ as your savior to do so TODAY. It would be beyond words and measure if you could join my mother and me in eternity with Jesus some day.
Finally, as I know some of you may have a hard time with closure (but death is not the end), if you need to talk, I can offer a friendly ear and even a few stories about my mother. Please, reach out to me if you find the need.
Sincerely,
Peter John Lindsay
Dear Friends,
Today, at 5:05 p.m., my mother went to be with the Lord. As some of you may know, she had a stroke that bleed into here brain on Nov 5th at 1:30 pm. She was hospitalized and was sedated and examined ever since that time. After a few days it was shown she would not be able to recover and life support was pulled at 1 pm this afternoon. She remained under sedation and lingered for a few hours. Again, at 5:05 p.m. she gave up the ghost and went to be with her redeemer and savior, Jesus. She was in no pain and slowly slumbered into eternity.
While it would be easy to morn her, the morning would solely be for OUR loss. She is more alive now than she was ever before. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. I for one, stand to have the most to bemoan by OUR loss as she was my business partner, my room mate, my best friend and my mother all in one. However, I SHALL not begrudge her one moment, with the Lord, rather than slumming it with the likes of me and the rest of humanity.
Will we miss her? Yes, but we will not miss what she "has been" to us. We are only missing what she "might have" been to us. None of us are promised one more minute of our life, so we can not say we would have a "might have" gained. It is only a loss if you treat it as such, I had 47 years with her. This means that I have to live 47 more years to have lost her even half my life. I don't intend to be here for that long. When you lay my life on the balance, I am far better off for having known and been loved by her (and loving her) than to never to have known her. So it is not a loss. It is a blessing to have 47 years with someone you love and has loved you back. Each of us has been touched by a part of her life. Rather than seeing the void, let us take the time to examine the hole that she has filled in each of us.
I know, like you, I will see things or think of things that will make me tearful and think of her (I am surrounded by her belongings). Would she want you to wept at them? No? Do you think she wants your memories of her to be connected with sorrow? No? Remember her fondly and know that she is more ALIVE today than ever before as she is just getting a glimpse of an eternity with her creator and Savior. She accepted His blood to cover for her sins which was paid ONCE AND FOR ALL on the cross.
She did not change status, but simply address. If you wish to see her again, it is as simple as 1. Confessing you are a sinner in need of a savior. 2. Recognizing that God loved you so much that He took on the form of flesh and walked among us where he lived without sin, he then suffered and died in our place to pay the wages for our sinful lives and rose again to glory. 3. We must accept this gift of his substitutionary death in our place and stop trying to earn our own ways into heaven. (Why would Christ cry out "It is finished" [paid in full] if there was something we could do to save ourselves? Why would we attempt to do part of the "surgery" with our "dirty hands" rather than allowing a "surgeon" with "clean hands" to do it all? 4. We live lives to honor our Lord (This is not payment for "surgery" [sin removal] as the Bible says that Christ sacrifice was a gift, but rather as a way to thank the "surgeon".) Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments".
I would like to thank each of your for holding a special part of her earthly life. The reason I can write you is she valued you enough to have contact information for you or that the Lord has directed you here. My mother was a private person and when she cared enough to keep touch with you, this means you held a certain place in her heart. It is often hard to tell people how much they mean to you as; we do not know how, we do not often think to do so, or we just forget that time is short. Gloria (my mom) talked about everyone of her friends every day. Thank you for being part of her earthly life. Because she is no longer with us in the flesh, I would like to ask you if you have not known Christ as your savior to do so TODAY. It would be beyond words and measure if you could join my mother and me in eternity with Jesus some day.
Finally, as I know some of you may have a hard time with closure (but death is not the end), if you need to talk, I can offer a friendly ear and even a few stories about my mother. Please, reach out to me if you find the need.
Sincerely,
Peter John Lindsay
