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• Our Journey Through The Valley (80)

  26 March, 2014

  I was deeply moved in our morning service last Sunday. For the first time that I can recall, I was there on my own because Bev is no longer able to be present. Our Church family has been wonderfully supportive over these past months and this morning our Pastor and his wife each prayed at different points in the service.

  In the family prayer, our Pastor's wife prayed thus:

  This morning we bring Mike and Bev Robinson before you. Embrace this couple as they make a huge change to their lifestyle. Death is no longer a distant reality but creeping closer. This has become apparent as they laid to rest and said goodbye to a way of life that has been normal for many years.

  Embrace them as they come to terms with this new stage of life and wrestle with the emotions of living away from each other on a permanent basis. I personally want to thank you for the gentle way in which you have been working in both their lives

  "......laid to rest and said goodbye to a way of life that has been normal for many years".

  How beautifully and helpfully she described what is happening to us. It helped me understand why this change is so difficult. Why there is such a sense of loss and grief.

  Then, at the close of the service our Pastor encouraged the congregation to gather at the front of the platform and stand closely together so that we could experience the bond that we share as God's people. When I tried to thank him later, I just fell all over him and wept!!

  It occurs to me even as I write this just how impoverished and desolate Bev and I would be were it not for such good friends.