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A message from John, Halle's Dad:
In every thought I have, in everything I see, I remember Halle. I would be lying to say I don’t grieve enormously. But, I recognize the blessing I was given in Halle’s life and now after it. I always thanked God for blessing me with so many wonderful things. I just read one of my devotions from only days before and it said how thankful I was that God had so richly blessed me with my wife and children. I still feel that way even today. I find it a privilege to have been chosen by God to be Halle’s dad, and when she drew her last breath in my very hands I considered it a blessing that God had given me Halle’s whole life to enjoy.
Halle has driven me to God’s presence and I have been left with a wholly changed heart. Seeing so many seek God because of her, I am encouraged that people were moved to Him. It is our hope that people who prayed for Halle would never cease to be praying people. For those that know God, my hope is that Halle has helped you to know Him more. For those that don’t know God, my hope is that from this time forward you would think of Him, that you would recognize the wonder of God’s blessings to comfort and sustain and seek Him out, and come to know Him as savior.
The Bible lists few things that are blessings from God. It says children are one of them, not wealth, not power. We feel that way. I feel Halle was a blessing from God I am humbled to think that God would be so gracious to me that He would bless me as her earthly father. I was able to love Halle to the very end and at that point release Halle to her heavenly father. I have a hope as a Christian that Halle is surrounded in His loving arms and that I will go to see her one day. I am not left to be consumed by my loss or dwell on my regrets because I look to the future and my hope, and what I see there is wonderful.
“For I know the thoughts I have for you. Saith the Lord, thought of good and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope”. We are sensitive today to things of God These days might be the only days God is calling you to Him. Tomorrow you might get caught up in the worldly struggles for power, position, wealth or knowledge and never again have this time to find your blessed Lord, but if that’s all you find then when the seas of life storm and you find yourself dashed on the rocks of despair, I fear you will find none of your achievements will bring you the comfort and peace you need to sustain you.
Take this time as God calling out to you to seek Him. As a tribute to Halle’s wonderful happy life may this be the time you would find God, and don’t look back Leave behind the meaningless things of life and trivial achievements we have accepted and esteemed as ways of measuring our worth and our success. When the challenges of life arise, you will find they can offer you no sense of peace no love or comfort.
Romans 8:18 .. The sufferings we have are not worthy to be compared to the glory that is to be revealed in us..
So I do not compare. I only look for the wonderful things that still await me in heaven, but not only in heaven and my reunion with my beautiful baby Halle, but also in what God has blessed me with here. |
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