![Teresa Marie Halter Breeden, 1921-2011.
My grandmother passed away today. I’m sad to lose her, but she lived a really incredible life. On Tuesday I fly to Arkansas to celebrate it.
Appropriately, this was a reading from the Book of Common Prayer at church this morning:
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
[1 Thessalonians 4:13-18]
My aunts were gathered around the bed where my grandma slept. The room became brilliant white as she drew her last breath, illuminating the faces of her daughters before it escaped through the window.
Today my grandma rose with Jesus. Today she is home.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu9sj8O10Y1qbwv2co1_1280.jpg)
Teresa Marie Halter Breeden, 1921-2011.
My grandmother passed away today. I’m sad to lose her, but she lived a really incredible life. On Tuesday I fly to Arkansas to celebrate it.
Appropriately, this was a reading from the Book of Common Prayer at church this morning:
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
[1 Thessalonians 4:13-18]
My aunts were gathered around the bed where my grandma slept. The room became brilliant white as she drew her last breath, illuminating the faces of her daughters before it escaped through the window.
Today my grandma rose with Jesus. Today she is home.
