Shadowland Messages: Death and Mourning
"Death, the e'er present friend of all who are mortal. Ne'er know we when she shall come for us. Ne'er know we when she will come for our friends. So cover us now in the shround of sorrow. Till the mourning passes in the morrow." ~ Morria Giolla - 2005 Over the years there has been much written on this subject, mostly from the viewpoint of how to get over it and on with life. Yet, Death she never stops coming to visit us, when we least expect it. She never stops taking with her those we love. Why is it, if one grieves deeply in this present age, that they are looked at as morbid and not mentally sound? Let us now look at what Jesus tells us about mourning and death… Psalms 23:4 “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death , I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” Ecclesiastes 3:4 “ A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;” Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 ...