04-05-12 Love wins.

Death.
seems like it's final
seems like it wins
sadness of loss is so very hard

Love
it lasts forever
though it may fade in memory
the heart never forgets
it is the victory over death

Jesus
purchased that victory with his own life
and he gave us back what should never have been taken from us
he gave us eternity
he gave us a future
he gave us back the ability to love forever

death does not win
love does
parting from this life is only temporary
there is always a future with love
sadness can not be the end.

3 years ago today my daddy went to heaven
3 months later my little puppy Gracie
yesterday my little puppies Bu and Ed
one day when my job here is finished we'll be together again
death has no victory here,
love wins.
but for a little while there is grief.....

Ecclesiastes 3

 There is a time for everything,
   and a season for every activity under the heavens:

 a time to be born and a time to die,
 a time to plant and a time to uproot,
 a time to kill and a time to heal,
 a time to tear down and a time to build,
 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
 a time to mourn and a time to dance,
 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
 a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
 a time to search and a time to give up,
 a time to keep and a time to throw away,
 a time to tear and a time to mend,
 a time to be silent and a time to speak,
 a time to love and a time to hate,
 a time for war and a time for peace.

 What do workers gain from their toil?  I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.  He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.  That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.  I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

  Whatever is has already been,
   and what will be has been before;
   and God will call the past to account.

  And I saw something else under the sun:

   In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
   in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

  I said to myself,

   “God will bring into judgment
   both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
   a time to judge every deed.”

  I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.  All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.  Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

and then there is joy.........

Thank you Jesus for this priceless gift
that you loved us, loved me, enough to give your life instead of mine
and that I can be united with my loved ones again one day
thank you that there is a future
and thank you for holding my heart when it is in pain

death was never ever supposed to be the way that it is
and so death is supposed to hurt
it is supposed to remind us of that fact
remind us that we did not trust God's heart
and tried to do things on our own

Jesus came to prove that we can trust his heart
that it is and always has been and always will be
love
for us
and an overwhelming desire to be with us.
it is appropriate to contemplate this now
in this Easter season
tomorrow is 'Good Friday'
the anniversary of the day that death takes the life of love
he thought that he could win that war
he was wrong

death holds no victory here, or anywhere
because of Jesus, love wins.

Love wins!!!!!