Friday, April 1, 2016
To Lew's Family, especially Darla,
My thoughts and prayers go out to you all as you grieve the loss of your husband, dad or brother. Remember Christ's own words from John, Chapter 11 when He told Martha ""I am the Resurrection and the Life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"". Of course our Christian faith would have us loudly profess ""Yes Lord""! Think of how privileged we are knowing that our reward for believing is not living in pain here on Earth for an extra day, week, month, year, but for life eternally gazing at the Lord. For He has a room reserved for each of us where there will be no pain, no sorrow, no desires for anything outside of reach.
I am sorry that I will not be able to join you all tomorrow in the celebration of Lew's life on earth and the rejoicing of his entrance into heaven. I will be traveling to the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Massachusetts in the morning for the weekend long celebration of the feast of Jesus' Divine Mercy. I will say special prayers for Lew and your family while I am there.
I will close with the closing prayer of the Divine Mercy Prayers adapted for you all - ""Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion — inexhaustible, look kindly upon Lew and his family and increase Your mercy in them, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit themselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.""
John Brennan
