Thursday, December 11, 2008

Welcome

Welcome to my Inseparable Love blog space. This is a brief explanation of why I chose Inseparable Love as my title.

Two days ago I was sitting in a funeral home with my brothers and sisters and stepmother. The day before that we were at my father's side as he took his last breath after a battle with gall bladder cancer. Perhaps I'll talk more about that later, but that day in the funeral home we had decisions to make. If you've ever been through this, you know the surreal, hideous experience of making such plans--time, date, location, hymns, musicians, pallbearers, obituary, vault, coffin . . . enough to make you want to throw up, really. A small detail upon which we got hung up was what to have printed inside the cards handed out to funeral guests. We had many choices from which to select, but an idea from Romans 8 wouldn't leave my mind, and eventually these verses were decided upon:

Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? . . . No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35-39

And so you see I begin this blog with a heart that is weary and broken yet hopeful, because I know that even in this valley of the shadow of death, my living Savior's love enfolds me, and there is nothing, nothing, nothing that will ever separate me from that love. I am so thankful.

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