My most sincere condolences to all that loved my sweet uncle Francis Boaze. It seems no matter how many times I go through the death of a beloved one I am left deeply saddened and bewildered by this unnatural event. Death was not part of God’s original idea for human existence. The reason death seems so wrong and unnatural is because it is wrong and unnatural! Life was only meant to give way to life all the way into eternity.
It creates a void that mere words are incapable of providing comfort for. To find comfort we must seek out God for Jesus has taken the name Immanuel, which means “God with us.” In the darkness and aloneness of your grief, God Himself stands beside you and dwells within you as you face this.
I find myself drawn to the words and actions of King David regarding the illness and eventual death of his son.As his son lay dying David ripped his clothes, covered himself in ashes, fasted and pleaded to God to save his son continually. Having witnessed the horrible grief of David his servants feared what he would do when they were to tell him of his child's death.
To their amazement upon learning the news of his son's death David picked himself up, bathed and set at the table to eat.
Seeing this the servants asked him why he grieved so deeply and upon his son's passing he no longer grieved. The answer was simple. David said while his son was alive there was a chance that God may heal him. Now that he was gone he knew he would join him one day in Heaven.
Francis now stands in the presence of God free from his pain we all will one day be greeted by him and we all shall dwell with him and all our loved ones where we will dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever.
God bless you all and may He grant you the peace that surpasses all understanding,
Michael A. Boaze
