- Beautiful - A Mourning Glory Devotional
- And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:39 NKJI have always loved this commandment mostly because it assumes we love ourselves. At the very least it seems to give us permission to feel good about ourselves and...
- Today, Millions Turn to the Simplicity and Savings of Cremation
- It's something no one wants to think about, but unfortunately, death is one of the most assured facts of life. There's no way to avoid its eventuality forever, but there are ways to plan for its occurrence and help those who will remain behind deal w...
- A Balloonful of Love
- Three things will last forever -faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love (1st Cor. 13:13 NLT)Happy Valentine's Day, Baby I sang as I entered the house carrying a balloon tied to a box of candy. My husband grinned up at me from his ho...
- Why Do We Experience Grief?
- Everyone is familiar with feelings of grief. These feelings range from mild, momentary unhappiness to feelings of intense and acute emotional suffering that take a long time to heal. These feelings can be caused by disappointment, discouragement, fru...
- Enduring Love
- Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.(Hebrews 10:36 NLT)I sit on the edge of my husband's hospital bed, holding his hand and stroking his face. The room is...
- 51 Billion Dollar Industry
- 51 Billion Dollars and rising! Sounds like a company a wise investor should invest in. After all, having a piece of a 51 billion dollar industry is an exciting prospect, filled with anticipation for the future right? Not this time. This industry take...
- Of Death, Dying and the Possibility of a Hereafter
- Death is the greatest of our fears. Most of us believe it to be a cruel, catastrophic finality-the end of all we know, of all we are. Yet, Albert Einstein said, When gazing into the profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, life and death flow into on...
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