Originally Posted by
shipahoy41
Bob, I am so sorry to hear this news. We have been very busy helping with tornado cleanup efforts that I have not been on the site much. I have been in your footsteps my friend. My brother passed away when he was just 39 back in 1984. Not a day goes by when I do not remember the good times we shared.
Take comfort in the good memories you have of your brother and just know he is in a better place.
Text: 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18.
“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”