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  • JOURNAL 70

    26 January, 2016

    Hello Sweetheart, In our journey together over those 50+ years, you often observed (complained!?) that you felt left… [more]

  • JOURNAL 69

    25 January, 2016

    Hello Sweetheart, In a recent letter to you I made a reference to “the deep well of grief”. While… [more]

  • JOURNAL 68

    18 January, 2016

    My darling, “Well, today is your birthday!” OR “Well, today would have been your… [more]

  • JOURNAL 67

    11 January, 2016

    My Darling, I’ve just returned home from having lunch with D & H. It’s Sunday and guess who the… [more]

  • JOURNAL 66

    3 January, 2016

    My Darling, Well, Christmas 2015 is now part of our history. I confess that I was not looking forward to this event… [more]

  • JOURNAL 65

    24 December, 2015

    Hello my Love,

    “Your first Christmas without your beloved Bev…’ So many people have referred to this Christmas in these terms. Quite a few of them speak from their own experience, many of them have learned what that “first Christmas without” means.

    To my surprise I am effected emotionally more than I would have thought would be the case.

    I think it was in my second last letter that I made mention that our citizenship in is in heaven and that this world is not my final home. Well, last Sunday we sang that Christmas carol that contains the words,

    “Sing Choirs of Angels, Sing in exaltation,   

    Sing all you citizens in heaven above.

    I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realisation that you have entered into your new citizenship in heaven and those words were referring to you (among countless others, no doubt!!) But I was caught up in a wave of emotion (tsunami might be a better word) as I had a glimpse of the heart of Christmas.

    Yet again, the tears flowed freely as this revelation captured my heart and, for that moment, I could see you exalting the Lord as His glory rested on you.

    I’ve tried to tell others of that experience but I can’t complete my account without the emotion of that moment and the reality of you being with the Lord rendering me incomprehensible.

    I don‘t know how appropriate it is for me to say “Happy Christmas” but I want to do or say something to that effect.  All I know is that we, your family, will miss you more than we can say. Yet I will be reminding them of the re-union that awaits us

    But until then

    You remain the love of my life

    Mike

     

     

     

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