Last Sunday morning about 3:00 am my friend of 27 years Donnie Jenkins passed from this life into the hands of Jesus. Many thoughts always occur with me at times like these. Donnie had been sick for a long time. When we last spoke he told me he was tired and ready. He knew the Lord Jesus as savior.
Many verses come to mind, but this one seems to resound:
For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died. 1 Thessalonians 4:14
CS Lewis in the last book on the last page of the Chronicles of Narnia ends series with these words
"'The term is over, the holidays have begun. The dream is ended, this is the morning. ' And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read, which goes on forever in which every chapter is better than the one before."
And so now it is with Donnie
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