I bought a card and put it on the small round table I have in my home office with her picture and Bible and a few other things.
The front cover shows a heart and a cross in white and pastel colors. It reads:
It's Your Birthday
To everything there is a season...
Ecclesiastes 3:1
On the right inside cover I wrote "May 7, 2008" and "Dear Jackie,". Printed in the center of the page is the following:
This is your season to be happy!
God Bless You
On Your Birthday and Always
I wrote the following at the bottom:
This is your season; this is your time; the fulfillment of everything you yearned for and yet the best is yet to come! Rejoice in the Lord always.
I love you and miss you very much. I will join you in rejoicing when the Lord calls me.
Love always,
Fred
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Sometimes, a secular love song or even a simple birthday card can be profound when we know eternal truth. Jackie is rejoicing right now in the presence of the Lord. One day God will create the new Heaven and the new Earth (Rev. 21:3).
As for me, I will join her one day because I too love the Lord and have asked him to be my Savior and my Lord. I will join her at God's appointed time. Right now, as part of the bride of Christ on earth I am preparing my wedding garmet by doing the righteous acts the Lord has for me yet to do. And then we will be with the Lord together forever.
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Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, Hebrews 9:27
After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. I Thess. 4:17
Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. 8Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear." (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.) Then the angel said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are hose who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!' " And he added, "These are the true words of God." Rev. 19:7-9
as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.
So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. 2 Peter 3:12-14
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