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Today I sat with my elderly friend who is also dying of cancer. She is another wonderful testimony of God’s grace. She was diagnosed in June last year and since then has daily felt God’s presence and unfathomable peace. She told me that every morning since the diagnosis she has prayed submission and acceptance to God’s will and every day she experiences the peace and the freedom that only comes from God. She doesn’t know how many days or weeks she has left. She is on regular morphine and sleeps a lot, but when awake speaks often of God’s faithfulness. We had a wonderful conversation about spiritual matters; she can’t wait to be in her Saviours arms. She has a beautiful large painting of Jesus on her wall behind her bed, positioned so that she can see it in her mirror. A friend painted it. It is one of the most beautiful paintings I have seen of Jesus. In it, He is looking down and to the side smiling and His face radiates joy. She had an image while in hospital of herself and Jesus, sitting on a picnic rug under a tree sharing a salad. She had been unable to eat and all she wanted was a fresh salad. What a beautiful picture. In the past, I spent around thirty plus years serving in children’s ministry. I had a friend who had a remarkably simple Godly outlook and regularly saw, and painted, pictures of Heaven. One day she telephoned me and told me she had been given a vision for me. She saw me sitting on the bank of a sparkling stream that was filled with gemstones. Children were splashing in the stream, and I had a child on my lap. Jesus sat beside me with a child on his lap also and we were making daisy chains. Jesus finds joy in us; he laughs easily and is filled with love. Oh, how precious these reminders are. How precious the blood he shed for us so that we might spend eternity with Him in Heaven.

 

I want to recommend the following:

A Christian podcast called Outside of Sunday Podcast hosted by Christa Otter

A Spotify podcast called Whispers of Grace by Julie Colbeth

 

Happy listening and God bless.

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