Shelley Lives!

 

Resurrection Sunday!

Easter Sunday, the day God raised Jesus back to life. I like the term Resurrection Sunday.

God restored Jesus to life with a new body. This body could walk through walls, appear, and disappear. His body couldn’t suffer disease, not that it ever experienced illness, but the new body would forever be healthy. And His new form would never die again.

Jesus died on a cruel cross for the sins of humanity, past, present, and future. When we ask Him to forgive us and join His spirit with ours, He does so. When we die, our spirit goes to Him in glory.

One day, He will return to Earth from Heaven, and He will resurrect our bodies to reunite them with our spirit. Our glorified bodies will be like His. We will be able to fly around and disappear if we want to. However, I think we will be worshiping and praising more than vanishing and reappearing for fun.

I know our little Shelley is up there right now, living and breathing, and she is enjoying her regained health. While on Earth, she sang one of her favorite hymns entitled, “In the Garden.” The chorus to that hymn says, “And He walks with me, and He talks with me.”  Well, she’s up there and literally walking and talking with Him.

When we die, our spirits will live somewhere. For those of us like Shelley, the believers in Jesus Christ, we will live eternally with Him in Heaven. For nonbelievers, they will live forever in the bad place.

I taught my Bible Study yesterday. At the end, I showed a video I found on Facebook. It comforts me. A talented AI person produced a woman running two steps at a time up a flight of stairs to Jesus. The lady has long, dark, brown hair like my Shelley. The AI video lady is taller than my petite daughter, but Shelley would have been running with her hair flowing like this lady in the video.

I watch it often. It reminds me that she is a living, healthy, happy, and lovely child of God. The video image is so much better than the earthly body. While here, she was a sick, facsimile of her former self. But not anymore!

Shelley running to Jesus

Tips for Caregivers

Encourage youself as much as possible. Think happy thoughts. Enjoy nature. It relieves stress.

Console yourself with this fact. Your loved one will soon be well and healthy again.

Take heart: You will also be free of the responsiblity of care. The financial burden will be lifted. And it is okay to look forward to this day.

Forgive yourself of all guilt. You've done the best you can.