On Friday night I was seated at Applebees with a group of young women after Jersey Life had concluded. As we began to share our testimonies (life story), I realized that the sorrow and dreadfully horrible experience of my mother's loss had faded. While I still miss my beloved mom and shed a few tears, the shock and deep billowing sorrow has been replaced with a peaceful acceptance. The Lord's promise that He will give us beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for mourning is quite true. Sometimes pain is healed gradually because our human hearts feel it so deeply. But as Corrie ten Boom said, "There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still" Hallelujah.
Isaiah 61:3
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”
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