Sad news and sad day .......

Last week N rang for prayers for a friend, and her Mother who had been taken ill and rushed into hospital where it was found that she had cancer in her lung and breast.

Sometimes you meet someone and they touch your heart.

That's how it was with S.  We have met her on several occasions and she is lovely, lovely to look at and lovely in nature.  She just joins in no matter what is happening, whether it is dancing impromptu at New Year's Eve or enjoying the water fight that has erupted at a small barbie. 
When N told me about her Mother I immediately began to pray, not just for her Mother but for her and her family.  In my eyes, this is a time when they all need a massive hug from the Man Upstairs and the angels must support them all the time.

So the news came through last night that Mother had died.

Sometimes you hurt soo much for other people .................. you want to take the pain away and just hug them................

I sit here crying for her, for her family, for her little girl who will not know her grandmother as she grows up.  I think of all the platitudes that can be said, but it still hurts. 
I know that we all have to go through this and it makes us stronger but at the moment I feel sooo helpless for that poor girl. 
All the memories of losing a loved one, be it a daughter, Mother or Father, come back at a time like this. 

I think that funerals are not closure just for the recently bereaved but also for all of us who have lost someone.

On opening my Bible Reading package on my phone I see that God knows how I feel - a very apt Bible Verse for today - Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

It says WILL be comforted ................... God is with us at all times.