The unpredictableness of life

This week I have been getting ready for a trip John and I have had planned for Santiago de Chile. We were to leave Monday morning and return Saturday.

But life is unpredictable and you never know what is around the bend.

We are still taking a trip, but now it will be to Houston for my brother, Mike's funeral. I received word this morning from my mother that he passed away in his sleep last night.

Please be in prayer for my family - my mother and stepfather, my nephew and niece, my brother's girlfriend, everyone who loved him, myself very much included.

I am sad...very sad. This is not the way things are supposed to be, is it. And everytime we are faced with death, we feel that truth deep in our hearts.

Thanks be to God who through his Son has conquered the power of death. But for now we are still this side of Heaven, and so we still suffer it's affects. But someday we won't anymore. Someday.

Life is indeed unpredictable. But my God is not. And his steadfast love will carry us through this season of suffering and sadness. In this knowledge I will find rest.