Your Unfailing Love
Posted January 3, 2008

On September 1st of 2007, Heidi's extended family gathered together for the burial of her Aunt Julie’s ashes. Auntie Julie, as we called her, died on November 3rd, 2006 after a year-long battle with cancer. She was only fifty-four.

Even after almost a year of grieving the loss of his wife, Uncle Bill still seemed as emotionally raw as he did at the funeral service the previous November. After burying Julie’s ashes, Bill commented to me and Heidi that Psalm 13 had become a strong focus of his attention. Bill wondered, “How long did it take David to go from the honest, grief-stricken, pleading portion of a Psalm until he came around to the resolution at the end?” Bill added that although his faith told him God was in control of the situation, his emotions still felt trapped in that first part of the Psalm.
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