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Gentle Reader,
This afternoon I attended a memorial service for one of the former occupants of the shelter where I volunteer. While admittedly not having been to very many of these types of gatherings, the ones I have been to in the past have been rather somber affairs, full of tears. Though I cried today with the sense of loss that comes from all partings, I came away feeling like I’d been to a great party. Totally blessed. Full of joy.
She knew Jesus. She really knew Him. And she got to see Him face to face on Sunday evening.
To listen to an auditorium full of women sing praises to God; to watch as tattooed arms reached out to proclaim His amazing grace; to see faces marked with drug use and abuse shining with the imagining of Heaven…
Blows me away.
These women aren’t kidding around when they praise Him. Their chains really are gone. They really have been set free.
And she was among them.
