\u201cHe will cover you with his feathers; you will take refuge under His wings.\u00a0 His faithfulness will be a protective shield.\u201d Psalm 91:4 CSB
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Today is the five year anniversary of God calling Cody boy back to Him.\u00a0 He died from the terrible disease of diabetes. The verse above is the one my family and I have clung to since that day. When we find a feather, to us, it is Cody saying hello from heaven.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to share a little bit of him with you today. His presence in my life, for the brief 20 years we had him, was amazing. He helped me grow and love like I never had before him.\u00a0 He was not perfect, no one is, but he was perfect to me. Cody had an old soul, he was wiser than I will ever be. There was a period of time where I was fighting with his dad, we weren\u2019t speaking.\u00a0 Cody was better than both of us, he rose above the family squabble and loved us both. He was an amazing young man.
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I recently started therapy, it has helped me immensely, although it was very difficult for me to do. God is taking me on an interesting journey. My therapist is having me read a book on grief. She gave the book to me two weeks ago, it took me a week and a half before I could pick it up. Once I started reading it, I started identifying with what it was saying. The book, \u201cOn Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief through the Five Stages of Loss,\u201d by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. and David Kessler, was written while Elisabeth was dying. In fact, she died before the book was completed and David finished the book. My therapist is helping me understand grief is an ongoing process, it doesn\u2019t magically end one day. I\u2019ve begun to realize, I\u2019m still grieving the loss of my Dad over 30 years ago. But it is also teaching me about the circle of life and death. We always want to talk about life, but we don\u2019t like to talk about death.
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Life and death are interconnected, neither should be feared when your life is in Christ. My favorite story from the book so far is about Margaret and Frank, a couple who had been married 50 years. Margaret had a terminal illness, she was petrified of dying because she would leave Frank. She couldn\u2019t bare the thought of being apart from him. Just hours before she died, Margaret told Frank, it was finally ok to go. When Frank asked, \u201cWhy now?\u201d, Margaret responded, \u201cBecause God told me you\u2019re already there.\u201d This puzzled Frank until he realized, God and heaven are outside of time and space. On earth, it may be another 10 years before Frank sees Maragaret again, but where Margaret is going, it will seem like only a couple of seconds have passed. I\u2019ve also learned, in the last five years, I love Cody more now than ever. He lives on in me, and my family. He touched so many lives, every life he touched carries him with them. We may be physically apart, but we are always spiritually connected. One day, we\u2019ll see each other again, and it will only seem like seconds.
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I hope this brings comfort to any broken hearts out there. Pray for my sister-in-law Jill today as she grieves the loss of her son on this anniversary.
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