Daily Devotional – By Faith Peay

May is certainly not a merry month for me.  It is full of demands, deadlines, end of the year stuff for students, teachers, and the dreaded Open House.  As I am writing this, it’s the anniversary of my father’s death, and my cousins as well. This day brings up so many sad memories.  There are so many things that happen that demand our time and attention, and then there are those things that come up unplanned, unexpected, and sometimes a disaster.  I don’t know how you handle all of this but I tend to react first and cry out to God second. This May is no different. 

And then it happened; a phone call came from our accompanist Corey.  He called to say that Jan, one our members from the community choir Voices of Tustin, only has about four days left to live.  We saw her two weeks ago in rehearsal, smiling, singing and enjoying life.  I knew she had been battling breast cancer, but I thought she was beating it, and that she would be ok.  Cancer has gotten the best of her body and it is shutting down.

Now, all the things that seem all important, stops for a moment in time and we go to say goodbye.  We go to pray with her and try to lift her spirits up and there she sits.  She is very thin and frail, and can only eat ice chips, but she is aglow with the prospect of seeing Jesus soon.  It took my breath.  She was so uplifting to us.  She was so positive and resolved to say her good byes and give hugs and kisses before she leaves this world.  The last thing she said to me was, “In the blink of an eye, I will see you again.” That has been playing over and over in my head, “A blink of an eye. 

” 1 Corinthians 15:52 …in a flash in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.”