Please join us in prayer for the family of Jim Garlow as they both grieve and rejoice over the absence, in flesh, of their beloved daughter, Janie Garlow McGarity. I did not know Janie, personally, nor have I met the Garlows, but what I do know is this; if Janie was any reflection of her dad, and what I have heard of her mother - whom she has now reunited with - then she was a beautiful soul. Her battle with breast cancer may have ended her existence in this temporary tent of flesh, but her spirit has seen the face of Jesus (Yeshua), and there she remains forever. What peace to have that assurance! And so we pray that each family member will be blanketed in the Shalom that passes all understanding; and that the memories of their beloved daughter, sister, grandaughter, wife, mom, aunt, mom-in-law, step-daughter, step-sister and friend - will linger long and deep in the souls of those who remain in flesh.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
