My dear friend:
On behalf of my family and myself, thank you all for your prayers, calls, visits, gifts and words of encouragement on the passing of my daughter Christabelle. For all who knew her, Christabelle was a most unusual child. She was a blessing to me and my family for which we remain eternally grateful to God. She has run her race and finished her course. All that death did was to transport her form mortality to immortality, as we ALL will be transported at some point. Although we feel her loss keenly, we are comforted that Christabelle has joined the cloud of witnesses urging us all on. So many scriptures encouraged and comforted me in this difficult time, and I’d like to share some of them with you.
Ecclesiastes 7: 1-4, 8
7 A good name is better than precious ointment,
And the day of death than the day of one’s birth;
2 Better to go to the house of mourning
Than to go to the house of feasting,
For that is the end of all men;
And the living will take it to heart.
3 Sorrow is better than laughter,
For by a sad countenance the heart is made better.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
8 The end of a thing is better than its beginning;….
Isaiah 57:1-2
The righteous perish,
and no one takes it to heart;
the devout are taken away,
and no one understands
that the righteous are taken away
to be spared from evil.
2 Those who walk uprightly
enter into peace;
they find rest as they lie in death.
Psalm 116:15
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Numbers 23:10(b)
….Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my end be like his!"
May the Lord bless His word in our hearts and may the God of all consolation keep us in His love and comfort. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. May His name be praised forever!!
Best regards,
Tessie Ononye
On behalf of my family and myself, thank you all for your prayers, calls, visits, gifts and words of encouragement on the passing of my daughter Christabelle. For all who knew her, Christabelle was a most unusual child. She was a blessing to me and my family for which we remain eternally grateful to God. She has run her race and finished her course. All that death did was to transport her form mortality to immortality, as we ALL will be transported at some point. Although we feel her loss keenly, we are comforted that Christabelle has joined the cloud of witnesses urging us all on. So many scriptures encouraged and comforted me in this difficult time, and I’d like to share some of them with you.
Ecclesiastes 7: 1-4, 8
7 A good name is better than precious ointment,
And the day of death than the day of one’s birth;
2 Better to go to the house of mourning
Than to go to the house of feasting,
For that is the end of all men;
And the living will take it to heart.
3 Sorrow is better than laughter,
For by a sad countenance the heart is made better.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
8 The end of a thing is better than its beginning;….
Isaiah 57:1-2
The righteous perish,
and no one takes it to heart;
the devout are taken away,
and no one understands
that the righteous are taken away
to be spared from evil.
2 Those who walk uprightly
enter into peace;
they find rest as they lie in death.
Psalm 116:15
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Numbers 23:10(b)
….Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my end be like his!"
May the Lord bless His word in our hearts and may the God of all consolation keep us in His love and comfort. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. May His name be praised forever!!
Best regards,
Tessie Ononye
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