Thursday, January 28, 2021
Brigitte,
There is no greater legacy than a man's children, and I can only imagine the love and pride your father had for you as I reflect upon how much you manifestly loved him and how wonderfully you reflect his life to me. You and your entire family are in my prayers, and I pray for God's Peace beyond all understanding in the coming days for all of you. Time will ease the pain of your loss, but it will never erase you love for your father, and I commend the following passage to you:
1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 (ESV)
14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord,[a] that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
In Christ,
Michael E. Garvin, DMD
