I wanted to thank everyone who's been praying for my cousin, Stephanie. It's with a heavy heart that I share she passed away last Tuesday. For the past week, I've been writing in my journal about what she went through and what she must have been going through. I've looked up what a CPAP/BiPAP machine is, what an airvo machine is. I've researched what all is involved to be intubated on a ventilator, to be on dialysis, and to have a feeding tube. I've looked at diagrams and images of all of these things because that's what Stephanie went through for four weeks before her heart just couldn't take it anymore.
Stephanie is now the second person I know to have died from COVID. Yet, there are still many people who don't believe that it's "that bad." Last week I checked the numbers and 2,240,000 people have died from this disease worldwide. Whether you believe the actual numbers or not, it's still astronomical.
In the past year, I've lost friends and family to heart attacks, pneumonia, cancer, and covid. The number of deaths seems to be disproportional to any other year, so I would like to take this week to pray for everyone who is grieving. I'm specifically praying today for the friends and families of Robert, Chloe, Sheila, Shanda, Tim, and Stephanie; I know I'm missing several others.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV
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Please join me this week in praying for those who are grieving the loss of a loved one. May they find comfort in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and may they rest in God's sovereignty over all things.
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