When you loose a close person

[Zundrah]

Zechariah 10:8 - 9

8 I will call my people
and gather them together.
I will rescue them,
and make them as numerous as they use to be…
9 Though I have scattered them among the nations,
in faraway places, they will remember me.
They and their children will survive and return home together.

This passage always gives me hope to those that are too far away for me to love.

 

[PJM]

=Zundrah;5570915]Zechariah 10:8 - 9

8 I will call my people
and gather them together.
I will rescue them,
and make them as numerous as they use to be…
9 Though I have scattered them among the nations,
in faraway places, they will remember me.
They and their children will survive and return home together.

This passage always gives me hope to those that are too far away for me to love.

John 14: 1"Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way where I am going." 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him and have seen him."

***And so it it and so it shall be:thumbsup:

Love and prayers,***

 

[Zundrah]

John 14: 1"Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way where I am going." 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him and have seen him."

***And so it it and so it shall be:thumbsup:

Love and prayers,***

Amen !

PJM,

Please can you post here a scripture from a book in the catholic bible that isn’t in the protestant one? I would never have read it before!

 

[NHInsider]

Please can you post here a scripture from a book in the catholic bible that isn’t in the protestant one? I would never have read it before!

I love Sirach (Ecclesiasticus in older Bibles). Here’s a favorite:

Chapter 43 and 44: 1-15 (I’ve taken the verse numbers out to preserve the poetry)

The clear vault of the sky shines forth like heaven itself, a vision of glory.
The orb of the sun, resplendent at its rising: what a wonderful work of the Most High!
At noon it seethes the surface of the earth, and who can bear its fiery heat?
Like a blazing furnace of solid metal, it sets the mountains aflame with its rays;
By its fiery darts the land is consumed; the eyes are dazzled by its light.
Great indeed is the LORD who made it, at whose orders it urges on its steeds.

The moon, too, that marks the changing times, governing the seasons, their lasting sign,
By which we know the feast days and fixed dates, this light-giver which wanes in its course:
As its name says, each month it renews itself; how wondrous in this change!
The beauty, the glory, of the heavens are the stars that adorn with their sparkling the heights of God,
At whose command they keep their place and never relax in their vigils.

A weapon against the flood waters stored on high, lighting up the firmament by its brilliance,
Behold the rainbow! Then bless its Maker, for majestic indeed is its splendor;
It spans the heavens with its glory, this bow bent by the mighty hand of God.
His rebuke marks out the path for the lightning, and speeds the arrows of his judgment to their goal.
At it the storehouse is opened, and like vultures the clouds hurry forth.

In his majesty he gives the storm its power and breaks off the hailstones.
The thunder of his voice makes the earth writhe; before his might the mountains quake.
A word from him drives on the south wind, the angry north wind, the hurricane and the storm.
He sprinkles the snow like fluttering birds; it comes to settle like swarms of locusts.
Its shining whiteness blinds the eyes, the mind is baffled by its steady fall.
He scatters frost like so much salt; it shines like blossoms on the thornbush.
Cold northern blasts he sends that turn the ponds to lumps of ice.
He freezes over every body of water, and clothes each pool with a coat of mail.
When the mountain growth is scorched with heat, and the flowering plains as though by flames,
The dripping clouds restore them all, and the scattered dew enriches the parched land.

His is the plan that calms the deep, and plants the islands in the sea.
Those who go down to the sea tell part of its story, and when we hear them we are thunderstruck;
In it are his creatures, stupendous, amazing, all kinds of life, and the monsters of the deep.
For him each messenger succeeds, and at his bidding accomplishes his will.

More than this we need not add; let the last word be, he is all in all!
Let us praise him the more, since we cannot fathom him, for greater is he than all his works;
Awful indeed is the LORD’S majesty, and wonderful is his power.
Lift up your voices to glorify the LORD, though he is still beyond your power to praise;
Extol him with renewed strength, and weary not, though you cannot reach the end:
For who can see him and describe him? or who can praise him as he is?
Beyond these, many things lie hid; only a few of his works have we seen.
It is the LORD who has made all things, and to those who fear him he gives wisdom.

Now will I praise those godly men, our ancestors, each in his own time:
The abounding glory of the Most High’s portion, his own part, since the days of old.
Subduers of the land in kingly fashion, men of renown for their might,
Or counselors in their prudence, or seers of all things in prophecy;
Resolute princes of the folk, and governors with their staves;
Authors skilled in composition, and forgers of epigrams with their spikes;
Composers of melodious psalms, or discoursers on lyric themes;
Stalwart men, solidly established and at peace in their own estates–
All these were glorious in their time, each illustrious in his day.

Some of them have left behind a name and men recount their praiseworthy deeds;
But of others there is no memory, for when they ceased, they ceased.
And they are as though they had not lived, they and their children after them.
Yet these also were godly men whose virtues have not been forgotten;
Their wealth remains in their families, their heritage with their descendants;
Through God’s covenant with them their family endures, their posterity, for their sake.
And for all time their progeny will endure, their glory will never be blotted out;
Their bodies are peacefully laid away, but their name lives on and on.
At gatherings their wisdom is retold, and the assembly proclaims their praise.

Thanks for asking!

 

[Nita]

Please can you post here a scripture from a book in the catholic bible that isn’t in the protestant one? I would never have read it before!

I think the following passage from Wisdom is helpful in understanding the death of someone young.
Wisdom 4:10-15 He pleased God and was beloved, and living among sinners he was translated. He was taken away lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul. For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the wandering of concupiscence overturneth the innocent mind. Being made perfect in a short space, he fulfilled a long time: For his soul pleased God: therefore He hastened to bring him out of the midst of iniquities: but the people see this, and understand not, nor lay up such things in their hearts: That the grace of God, and His mercy is with his saints, and that He hath respect to His chosen.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Another passage from Wisdom is often used in Catholic funerals:

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. 2 In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be an affliction, 3 and their going from us to be their destruction; but they are at peace. 4 For though in the sight of men they were punished, their hope is full of immortality. 5 Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; 6 like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them. 7 In the time of their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like sparks through the stubble. 8 They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them for ever. 9 Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and mercy are upon his elect, and he watches over his holy ones.

Wisdom 3:1-9

 

[Zundrah]

Nice, I’m loving it! Givez me more please!