A Time to Mourn...

Last Sabbath got the horrible news that Lew, my former husband, had been killed.
Still in shock.
Still sobbing.
Had to go on a work-related errand to the bank yesterday. Saw a man who resembled Lew a bit...nearly lost it. Have been doing that a lot.
Didn't know it could hurt so much.
Didn't know I had so much grieving to do...even after so many years.
Dreams die so hard!!!

Please pray for Mavis, Lew's bride...they had only been married a little over three months. She's a lovely lady...whose dreams now lay in ashes. Pray for the whole family...and friends...please.

Lew was killed in Utah on Monday night, April 5th, when a tractor-trailer truck passed a vehicle and hit him head-on. The driver of the truck, and his passenger, were treated at the scene...Lew was killed. It wasn't his fault.




The memorial service on Sunday, 4-11-10, was beautiful--perfect, actually...except that...
I wish it hadn't happened...a sentiment shared by all.
Still can't get over how much it hurts...wish I had a block of time where I could just get it all out, once and for all. Am hurting for Mavis, too...it just seems so wrong-headed to have been made a widow while still a bride...so hard to understand...

Just have to keep reminding myself over and over again:

GOD *always* does the right thing.
He *always* does it in the right way.
And, He *always* does it at the right time.

Right now it's the only truth I can comprehend...
even though it still hurts like all-get-out.

Can't talk right now...sorry.

Linda.

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Everything Has Its Time

 ¹ To everything there is a season,

      A time for every purpose under heaven:
       ² A time to be born,
And a time to die;
      A time to plant,
And a time to pluck what is planted;
       ³ A time to kill,
And a time to heal;
      A time to break down,
And a time to build up;
       ⁴ A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
      A time to mourn,
And a time to dance;
       ⁵ A time to cast away stones,
And a time to gather stones;
      A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing;
       ⁶ A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
      A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;
       ⁷ A time to tear,
And a time to sew;
      A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak;
       ⁸ A time to love,
And a time to hate;
      A time of war,
And a time of peace. ⁹ What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? ¹⁰ I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

 ¹² I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, ¹³ and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.
       ¹⁴ I know that whatever God does,
      It shall be forever.
      Nothing can be added to it,
      And nothing taken from it.
      God does it, that men should fear before Him.

       (Ecclesiastes 3:1-14, New King James Version)