We do need a savior. Mike Henderson needed a savior. He has him now. He wanted to see his son graduate from high school. That will not happen now. I remember DW's mom hanging on, or so we thought. Despite her poor health she clung to life when perhaps it was time to move on. DW thought it proper to encourage her to let go and be at peace. But she was 94. Her situation is only dimly comparable to Mike's.
It will be soon time (as God sees soon) for us to let go and leave living to other people. We need a savior. Will we have the faith to let go? Will we know peacefully that Jesus is our savior and God will catch us on the other side? I believe that when the time comes God will give me the faith. But even if I cannot get totally peaceful about it, that's OK too, God is greater than that.
Remember love, joy, peace ... from Galatians 5:22? We will need all those fruits when the time come. Mike Henderson had them in great measure and now has then in completion. It did not work out like he and his family hoped. But God called him home. Yet he died too young. We each mourn in our own way. We wonder why.
Our world is fallen. Sickness and death are a part of the fall, after Adam's sin. Paradoxically God is still in control. Yet death is born of evil. God still somehow uses it for his purposes. We can still praise him for his grace and goodness. Yet we have heavy hearts. Death causes separation from those who love us. We know we will be together again.
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