Our dear sister, Deborah Ann Smith (Loving Deb Smith) is dancing in the fields of Grace with Jesus and all the saints. She passed away early on October 12, 2007. Elsewhere on this blog are details about her brief and intensely courageous and loving battle with a ferocious cancer that came from nowhere less than one year ago. The Loving Deb Smith blog tells the rest of this incredible story, including her life, her Love for Jesus, her family, the enormous love and kindness she has received from hundreds of friends in the last few months of her life, etc. Read the blog with several boxes of tissues handy.
This Scripture, from Psalm 84 is a constant source of comfort at this time:
1 How lovely is Your dwelling place,
O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at Your altars,
O LORD of hosts,
my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in Your house,
ever singing your praise!
Selah
O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at Your altars,
O LORD of hosts,
my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in Your house,
ever singing your praise!
Selah
(Psalm 84:1-4 (ESV)
