The Loss of a Friend

Revelation 21:3-5 says, "I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: 'Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They're his people, he's their God. He'll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good—tears gone, crying gone, pain gone—all the first order of things gone.' The Enthroned continued, 'Look! I'm making everything new. Write it all down—each word dependable and accurate.' "

This week a dear friend of Mitchell and the Mayes family was lost to a sudden illness and death over a period of a week. Twelve year old Connor Deal went to the hospital a little over a week ago with a high fever and cough. By the end of the day he was sedated and on a ventilator, diagnosed with MRSA pneumonia. He was put on life support and Tuesday he had a brain hemorrhage and died. Please take some time this week to lift up the Deal family and Mitchell and his family in prayer to God as we all look forward to the day John writes about in the verse above from Revelation as he describes a time when all heart-aches will be healed.

visit http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/connordeal to see pictures of Connor, and even post a note or a prayer for his family. You may not know the Deal family personally, but in Christ, we are all one body. They are precious to the Mayes family, and that makes them precious to us!