AND.....YES AS USUAL SHED SOME TEARS.
I DO THAT A LOT WHEN I WATCH "TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL."
THAT IS JUST THE WAY I AM. GOT IT FROM MY MOM...... AS A KID MOM AND I WOULD WATCH SENTIMENTAL MOVIES ON TV [MY DAD WORKED A NIGHT SHIFT] AND WE'D BOTH BE SHEDDING TEARS.
WELL THIS EPISODE WAS DIFFERENT IN ONE WAY ESPECIALLY..... ALL THE MEMBERS OF THIS FAMILY WERE JUST REALLY NICE PERSONS.
THERE WERE THE THREE YOUNG BOYS, REAL SWEET AND NICE.
THERE WAS THE MOTHER AND WIFE, REAL SWEET AND NICE.
THERE WAS THE FATHER, A CANVAS PAINTER....... REALLY GIFTED, AND YES A REALLY NICE HUSBAND AND FATHER.
A PICTURE BOOK FAMILY.
BUT....THE DAD HAD COME DOWN WITH LOU GARRICKS DISEASE.
THE ANGELS WERE SENT TO HELP THEM ALL THROUGH TO THE END.
THE DAD WAS GOING TO HAVE A PAINTING DISPLAY AND SALE. BUT THERE WAS A FIRE. ALL HIS PAINTING WERE LOST BUT ONE. THEN TIME WAS UP. HE HAD TIME TO INDIVIDUALLY SAY GOOD-BYE; TWO OF THE BOYS WHILE THEY SLEPT [THE YOUNGEST TWO]; THE THIRD BOY WOKE UP AND HIS WIFE CAME IN. HE WAS ABLE TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO THEM BOTH. HIS LIFE ON EARTH HAD COME TO ITS END THAT NIGHT.
HIS WIFE WAS ENCOURAGED BY THE ANGELS THAT GOD WAS WITH HER AND THE BOYS, ALL WOULD BE FINE FOR THEM. SHE SAID SHE'D MISS THE PAINTING; THEN THE OLDEST BOY CAME IN WITH A CANVAS TO PAINT. THE ANGEL TESS TOLD HER THERE WOULD BE MANY MORE PAINTING COMING IN THE FUTURE.
A REALLY NICE FAMILY. THEY HAD NO BITTERNESS TOWARDS GOD.
JUST ONE OF THOSE VERY DIFFERENT EPISODES OF "TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL."
SO IT IS..... BAD THINGS CAN HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE.
WISE KING SOLOMON SAID: "...THERE IS A JUST MAN THAT PERISHES IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THERE IS A WICKED MAN THAT PROLONGS HIS LIFE IN HIS WICKEDNESS" (ECCL. 7:15).
ALSO: "I RETURNED AND SAW UNDER THE SUN, THAT THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT, NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG, NEITHER YET BREAD TO THE WISE, NOR YET RICHES TO MEN OF UNDERSTANDING, NOR YET FAVOR TO MEN OF SKILL; BUT TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENS TO THEM ALL" (ECC. 9:11).
NONE OF US KNOW WHAT LIES AHEAD OF US IN OUR DAILY LIFE, IN THE OVERALL.
THIS EPISODE BROUGHT THAT OUT...... SOMETIMES THE GOOD HAVE A BAD BREAK, AND YES TROUBLES AND EVEN DEATH IS THE RESULT.
THERE IS NO PROMISE THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE LONG SWEET LIVES.
YES SADNESS CAN COME TO GOOD PEOPLE, AND INDEED EVEN DEATH.
SO YOU FELLOW CHRISTIAN, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT SHALL BE YOUR LENGTH OF DAYS IN THE PHYSICAL PRESENT.
BE THANKFUL FOR EACH ONE YOU HAVE, PRAISE HIM EACH MORNING YOU HAVE.
YES IT IS TRUE SOMETIMES THE RIGHTEOUS YOUNG DIE EARLY.
SO ENJOY EACH DAY YOU HAVE.
GOD WILL BE WITH YOU NO MATTER HOW LONG YOU HAVE IN THE FLESH.
AND THE DAY WILL COME WHEN THE NEW AGE WILL BE ON THIS EARTH; SORROW AND CRYING GONE, SICKNESSES HEALD. GOD SAYS PEOPLE WILL LIVE LIKE TREES.....A GOOD LONG LIFE.
IN THAT AGE PEOPLE WILL NOT DIE WAY WAY TO YOUNG.
IT WILL BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AGE THIS WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
The Blessings of God's Seasons
We know we must pass through
the seasons God sends,
Content in the knowledge that everything ends,
And oh, what a blessing to know there are reasons
And to find that our souls must,
too, have their seasons—
Bounteous seasons and barren ones, too,
Times for rejoicing and times to be blue —
But meeting these seasons of dark desolation
With the strength that is born of anticipation
Comes from knowing that every season of sadness
Will surely be followed by a springtime of gladness.
Helen Steiner Rice
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