In God's Care

When Mama chose the inscription for Daddy's tombstone, which she would share when it was her turn to be buried beside him in the cemetery of the little country church where they were members, she selected three simple words: In God's Care. 

Those three words summarize what she and Daddy always believed: They were always in God's care--always had been, always would be. That profound truth comforted and strengthened them--and me, too.

They would agree, as I do, with these words spoken by the Apostle Paul: "I am persuaded that neither life nor death nor anything or anyone else can ever separate us from the love of God found in and expressed by Christ Jesus." See Romans 8.

What a comfort! How it strengthens us to face whatever happens to us.

His Masterpiece

For by grace you have been saved through faith.

And this is not your own doing; 

it is the gift of God,

not a result of works, 

so that no man may boast. 

For we are His workmanship, 

created in Christ Jesus for good works, 

which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

~Ephesians 2:8-10