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Saturday, I'll be going to the funeral of the grandson of a sister in our old congregation, who was shot and killed. She raised him like a son, and he was only 20. It's just so senseless.
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Oh, I'm so sorry my sister. That always hits us so hard, and never comes at a time when we're ready to take it. I know. I have to go to two funerals over the next week! One is a local elder in a nearby congregation whom I have known for some 30 years. I took part in a demonstration during one of his talks at a Circuit Assembly several years ago. The other was an elder in my home town of Toronto, and was in my first congregation. I have known him for almost 40 years, and had still kept in touch with him via email after all that time. He never studied with me, but was always an encouragement to me in the years leading up to my baptism. I will miss both of these brothers.
Please give that grandmother a hug for us. Tell her what is the best gift that she can give to her grandson when he comes back in the resurrection: Be There!
Funerals are never pleasant, but they do give us pause for reflection on how fragile and uncertain life is. Jehovah's blessing on you and her.
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