Today is Wednesday, April 18th, 2007; Karen's Korner #1043

Yesterday was Phil Kirstein's funeral. He was only 59; young by the standers of someone who will turn 61 next month. Phil learned of his terminal illness several months ago; it takes time for friends and family to come to terms with those kinds of diagnoses.
 
Several weeks after I learned of Phil's cancer, I had a dream about Phil and his family. Dreams aren't always all factual.
 
Phil was raised on, loved, worked, and to my knowledge always lived on the farm. But in my dream his home was in town. I decided I wanted to stop by to visit. I knocked on the door, but no one answered. Steve Sebbby, who lived next door (but in reality doesn't!), saw me and said, "Phil, doesn't live there any more. He moved."
 
"Where did he move?" I asked.
 
"He moved to another house down the street,"  Steve said. "Just follow their dog. (I don't know if Phil had a dog or not!). He knows the way."
 
So I followed this mid-size pooch several blocks and there was Phil. He was climbing down off a ladder. "Just getting this house ready," he said. He looked some weaker than the last time I had seen him.
 
"Why did you move?" was my first question.
 
"I just couldn't stay there and have my family watch my pain and suffering," he said.
 
"So where is your family now?" was my question #2.
 
In Phil's normal fashion, he smiled (with his chuckle tossed in) and said, "That's the funny part. They followed me here!"
 
Phil couldn't stand having his loved ones all watch him suffer; yet theycouldn't stand to let him leave; so they followed him to where he had moved. Love sometimes follows; love sometimes leads.......
 
Sort of like our house here; and our house in heaven. God knew that loved ones would want to follow where their parents, children, spouses, friends moved. Where He resides. So He built not only a path, but another home and a way to get there.
 
Death doesn't mean extinction. It only means separation.
 
Huge difference!
 
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Bible verse from today's Joel and Victoria Osteen daily email:
 
 “I’m going to do a brand-new thing. See, I have already begun! Don’t you see it? I will make a road through the wilderness of the world for my people to go home, and create rivers for them in the desert.”
 
~~ Isaiah 43:19 (TLB)
 
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