The Word of God for wisdom:
Proverbs 11:15 (NLT)
15 There's danger in putting up security for a stranger's debt; it's safer not to guarantee another person's debt.
The Word of God for inspiration:
Psalm 60:5 (NLT)
5 Now rescue your beloved people. Answer and save us by your power.
The Word of God for encouragement:
Luke 2:36-37 (HCSB)
36 There was also a prophetess, Anna, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was well along in years, having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,
37 and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.
My observation:
When I went to bed last night, I looked at the clock, and the empty space in the bed next to me. I noticed that I had been awake for 24 hours. My day started at 1:00 AM with a call from the hospital seeking my consent for a blood transfusion for my wife. Later yesterday at 12:15 PM l was holding her hand, and releasing her to go home to her heavenly Father who loaned her to me for over 47 blessed years together.
I love the selected verses from Luke chapter two. The prophetess Anna was a woman of prayer. My wife, Rosemary, and Anna will probably run into each other in heaven as they zip around the streets of their eternal home.
They share something in common. They were both women of faith and prayer. The passage did not mention Anna's faith, but I know that it takes faith in God to be a woman or man of prayer.
My prayer:
Father God, my dear Father, I praise and thank you for giving me as my life mate a woman full of love, faith, and prayer.
Father God, I am so comforted, and blessed to know that Rosemary made the transition from holding my hand to holding the hands of her Savior yesterday at 12:15 PM CT.
I am convinced that she heard Jesus speak to her words similar to these words written in the gospel of Matthew.
Matthew 25:23 (HCSB)
23 "His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful slave! You were faithful over a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Share your master's joy!'
Addendum:
I just went to my study bible to verify something before hitting the send key, and I noticed this gem from a note I wrote in my bible. Don't know exactly the source of this wisdom.
Speaking about Anna, it said "She had known pain, but she was not harsh and bitter. She was limited but not useless".
My wife often said in her testimony that "I don't focus on what I can't do, but I focus on what I can do". Our pastor leads us every Sunday in closing our services by saying, "I can't do all things, but I can do some things. What I can do, God expects me to".
Rosemary, you always gave God your best, and you gave me your best.
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Mark 4:20 (ESV)
20 But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold."
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