Today is Tuesday, July 28th, 2009; Karen's Korner #1622

Today is the tenth anniversary of Merry's death; the Karen's Korner is a repeat of one that I emailed in 2003. It is the sixth and final entry of a series of memories surrounding the time of her death; thoughts I didn't want to forget so I wrote them down and shared them in Karen's Korner at that time.
 
Thanks for allowing me to share; one more time:
 
Today is Tuesday, June 17th, 2003; Karen's Korner #72

("....when Merry died.....part 6")

 

From November to July, prior to Merry’s car accident, the Welds had been in the hospital six times – Merry had five surgeries to repair her shunt; Jim had an emergency heart surgery. The Welds were in lots of people’s prayers.

 

At the time, I was 53 years old. Over the years, we had had numerous hospitalizations….and everybody got well and came home from the hospital each time. I had never lost any siblings. My mom and dad were still alive and well. God had always answered my prayers, seemingly the way that I wanted them.

 

So where was God this time? Why didn’t He answer our prayers?

 

It seemed like God was showing me that in the past, I had asked God to jump into the Welds’ box, to do things MY way, and His answers were the kinds of answers that I wanted.

 

I was in the process of writing my third devotional booklet and I had chosen the title: "God’s Love is Higher, Deeper and Wider". I knew the words were from some place in the Bible. Pretty big book. Sometimes I can’t recall where stuff is found in it. And the Bible always teaches me many new things.

 

It seemed like God was showing me that the Weld’s box and its sides had collapsed. Now we were part of a bigger box……..His box. And that box was so big it still included Merry!

 

Several weeks after Merry’s death, I was reading in Ephesians, where it was talking about the magnitude of God’s love. Chapter 3, verses 18 and 19 say: "..and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should…..how LONG, how WIDE, how DEEP, and how HIGH…..His love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it!"

 

God’s love, care, and protection isn’t three dimensional…it has so many dimensions………High, Deep, Long, and Wide. No matter where life might take us, we can’t escape it. And that life isn’t just for this earth. It continues far, far off into a time and a distance we can’t fathom…….today and into eternity!!


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