Monday, August 24, 2015

Happy Birthday!


You left us wishing you’d hung around for a while longer.

Thanks for it all—the good times, the laughs, the pain
and the tears.

And in these ‘after’ years, your story reminds us to make
our lives count because they are short.

Meanwhile, we remember your hope for heaven and your confidence
that the best was yet to come.

Thanks Ben.

And happy 30th birthday.

Thanks Alice for the photo.

1 comment:

biscuit said...

HB BM.

I was taken to Romans 8 this morning (which from memory was one of the passages read at Ben's funeral?)

Death doesn't make sense, and I don't like when bible verses are thrown around like a Gospel bandaid, slapped on a gaping wound, however I couldn't help but feel God would have me know this today, and pass it on. Some words are just words and then others can speak to the very depths of our souls and show us that perhaps God is much nearer and much more relevant than we might have thought..

Paul's words in Romans 8 (v18-28) say:
"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God."

I don't know how to pray the Mulherin family today but am comforted that the Spirit knows and is interceding for us. Thank you for sharing the journey with us so authentically and allowing us to see what God will do with it all. Xo