It has not been from disrespect that I have been measured in posting to my friend Skip. Except for the razor exchanges of wit, comment and knowing observation on the board, Skip and I had but a few incisive personal messages in the substantial time we shared our daily appointment. We knew each other with a respecting smirk and knowing glance from the corners of our eyes.

During our cyber assembly remembering our oh-so-real family member, much intimate knowledge was exchanged among the people he felt so close to him. Our selfish sorrow was for OUR loss and the accolades were for the gifts of delight he gave US. I prefer to be grateful for the lifetime of pleasure he brought to me, even through his commune with others.

I am personally too limited to consider myself capable of knowing what is beyond my present existence and the dimension I am in. I do respect and envy others comfort and ability to place themselves beyond my scope. I would like to share, not a source but a concept, of a consideration passed to me by its’ author. Whatever your understanding of something beyond yourself may be, I hope you too are able to find deliberation in the idea.



THERE IS A BIBLE TRUTH IN WHICH MANY PEOPLE FIND COMFORT AND PEACE IN THE TIMES OF BEREAVEMENT AND SORROW. THIS TRUTH IS, THAT “GOD IS TOO WISE TO MAKE MISTAKES AND TOO GOOD TO BE UNKIND”. THOUGH THIS TRUTH MAY NOT BE EXPLICITLY REVEALED IN ONE SPECIFIC VERSE OF SCRIPTURE, IT IS WOVEN THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE BIBLE.


WE MAY NOT ALWAYS UNDERSTAND GOD’S TIMING WHEN A LOVED ONE IS TAKEN FROM US. WE MAY EVEN QUESTION THE WISDOM OF IT. HOWEVER, BECAUSE “GOD IS TOO WISE TO MAKE MISTAKES AND TOO GOOD TO BE UNKIND”, WE HAVE THE ASSURANCE THAT HIS TIMING IS ALWAYS PERFECT.


MEDITATE ON THIS TRUTH AND ALLOW GOD TO GRACIOUSLY FILL THE VOID IN YOUR LIFE WITH HIS LOVE; RELIEVE THE ANGUISH OF YOUR HEART WITH HIS COMFORT; DISPEL YOUR SORROW WITH HIS PEACE.


MAY GOD BLESS YOU!


WILLARD (BILL) HAMMOND
LORAIN, OHIO

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