In Line for Jesus

“Jesus is our Good Shepherd. He knows each of us by name. He knows our struggles, our fears, and our hopes. And His love does not end at the grave.”

“My experience is that “Hope doesn’t disappoint” when we surround ourselves with people who are rooting for us”

“Truly, death is not the end. Rather, it is the beginning of a new life, a Resurrection, not only for the deceased, but for those who mourn as well”

“In praying for the dead, we are not merely witnessing to the Resurrection, we are instruments of the Resurrection”

“We are constantly trying to separate in our minds that which should be considered together. Life and death, past, present and future – we seem to think we can only understand these if we think of them individually, but in reality they must be thought of together in order to make sense of them.”

“Jesus knows that the eternal is important, but he teaches that the eternal can start before death for those who have faith in him”

“As you pray for your beloved dead, take comfort in those words of the Lord: 'Everything the Father gives me will come to me, will come to me, I will not reject anyone who comes to me.' 'The souls of the just are in the hand of God.'”

“Those who have died have passed beyond this world, that's true, but they've not disappeared”

“we remember the dead and we realize how they are even now influencing us”