Simply Sunday~Live the Best Life You Can

I love Sundays. Actually, I need Sundays. I need a day set aside to worship.

Oh I know I can worship anywhere and anytime. But there’s something about corporate worship, surrounded by fellow believers.

We come together as redeemed sinners, each with our own heartache, our own joys, our own problems and we fall before a Holy God and we worship. He is so worthy!

Yesterday I visited a blog. You know how it’s done, you visit one blog, they share something that leads you to another blog and so on and so on.

I ended up on CaringBridge and became engrossed in Laura Black’s journey. Laura Black, is a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a sister. Her journey touched me in a profound way.

In one of Laura’s letters she talked about three things she wanted her husband and three children to know about death.

The three things are:

  • Death is the hardest thing to hand over to God.
  • Even death is held in God’s sovereign hand.
  • Death is an individual, not a group event.

The third one was a wonderful reminder for me. There are days when I’m overwhelmed with sadness because of losing my Mom to cancer. I miss her so much! But Mom would not want me to live in that sadness.

Laura says it perfectly,

“The third thing I want you to know about death is that it is an individual, not a group activity.  The saddest thing in the world I’ve ever seen is when someone dies physically and someone else dies emotionally, mentally, or spiritually because of it.  I need for you to promise me that will never happen. I’ve had a wonderful life.  It’s been filled with a million laughs, fun times, joy and happiness.  One time someone told me, “Even if this season of life isn’t joyful, find joy in every season.”  That’s one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever heard.  There is always joy in every season.  Even in the saddest, most heartbreaking of times, you can find joy. 

If I die, that doesn’t mean that you die, too.  You have a great, big, huge, wonderful, awesome life ahead of you.  Live it!  Live every day.  Be happy. Smile.  Enjoy it.  Thank God for it.  It’s okay to grieve.  It’s okay to be sad sometimes.  There is definitely a place for that.  But that’s not a place where you go to rest in and stay.  Get out of it and LIVE!!!  Life really is a beautiful thing.  Of course there is pain along the way, but there are also moments of incredible joy and happiness.  Seek those moments out.  Embrace them.  Let them fill you with light and happiness.  And then let your light so shine before men that they look at you and see Jesus.  Live the best life you can live. That’s what I want for you.”

That’s it friends, we need to let our light shine before men that they look at us and see Jesus. Live the best life you can!

****Laura Black met Jesus on June 23rd, 2012. You can read her journey here. You will be changed, I promise!****

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  1. Cyndi, three years ago, my sister and cousin (who was like a sister to me) were hit by a drunk driver. My cousin went to be with the Lord. She was 20 years old. Since then, I have struggled with intense worry about who will be next … my husband … my daughter … my parents? I know God is working in me to give this burden to him, let him have control. and just enjoy life instead of worrying so much. But, I agree, death is the hardest thing to give to God! It has been a difficult journey.

  2. I’m with you Cyndi…. I love Sundays and NEED them!!! Thx again for the encouraging blog; sometimes (or very often I should say!!) I click on it and the message there is just what I needed. You are a blessing!! Love you lots!

  3. Two friends went to Heaven this past week and it has been so very difficult. I know they are healthy and at peace now but the “missing them” is hard. I appreciate your sharing this today…many wise words from Laura.

    xo
    Pat

  4. No, I didn’t know her but was touched by the legacy that she is leaving her children. I’m going to go back and check our her service. Thanks!
    Cyndi

  5. Powerful…..Wow!! read her letters for 2 hours last evening. Having lost my Mom at age 6 to breast cancer, those children will have PRICELESS thoughts from their mother. What a strong and wonderful christian, wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend she was. Did you know her ? I even watched the service, a link from her baby cup business. Thanks for sharing, Debbie

  6. Reading Laura’s journey with tears flowing. What beautiful letters to her kids and the world.

    Thanks for sharing her wisdom. You were so right, you will be changed.