ELOGOS for Tuesday

​Romans 8: 38-39
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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I have read this passage out loud at funerals more times than I could count. Each time it is a moment when I have the privilege of looking into the eyes of grieving loved ones at the most vulnerable, emotionally intimate and spiritually hungry moment in many of their lives. I cannot take away their pain or their fear, but I can say these words with the conviction of the one who first wrote them. I can offer these words lofted on the voice of my heart compelled by the deepest wisdom I have ever known. I can speak these words into the cacophony of an anxious age believing that I have not added to the noise but offered a needed sound of hope. Thanks to the grace of God I can claim these words as my own. And so can you. 
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You make this words strong, true and alive, O God. Amen.