Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. (Psalm 116:15)" What an amazingly Christian take on death! Don't get me wrong, death is the enemy (1 Cor. 15:26); it has been ever since the fall of Adam & Eve and sin has infected all of creation. What the message tells us is that our earthly death is the portal into our eternal life with our heavenly Father forever in the joy and splendor and perfection of heaven.
And our dear friend Nancy Fleury is resting forever in the arms of her Savior Jesus there, joining with all of the company of saints who have gone before her in faith. So we mourn, of course. A dear friend has been ripped from our lives. Yet we also rejoice because she has realized the goal of her faith. A faith that began at her baptism and was sustained all of her life through the Word of God and His Sacrament of Holy Communion, received with her Fleury family each week and her Immanuel family gathered around her. We will gather again tomorrow to honor her and remember a life that was given and lived out in faith and to hear words of promise and victory! All praise and honor and glory be to our Lord and God!
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