A Sudden Goodbye...

A week's hiatus after such a promising blogging start... Instead, we spent last Monday saying goodbye to my Grandpa. He passed away suddenly on Thursday, April 15 at his home from an apparent heart attack and last Monday was his funeral. Although the occasion was for a very sad reason, the comfort and joy I got from being part of an impromptu family reunion was wonderful. Just being in the room with all of my mom's family makes me feel so incredibly happy to be part of such a wonderful legacy...

"We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died. For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord for ever. Therefore encourage one another with these words."         - 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18