To those of you who know us, I'd just like to let you know that we began a website for my father, who was killed in a car accident December 20th. I don't usually post my deepest thoughts about this stuff on our website or even our blog (which, by the way, is www.ericandleila.blogspot.com), but I do put some in the "journal" section of this website. Please keep praying for our family, if you don't mind. The website is www.drnayeem.com. Love you guys.
Leila
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That is neat that you and your family were able to create a website in remembrance of your father - the 21st century is amazing, isn't it? I read your first entry in the journal section entitled "blessed", and thought what you had to say was worth sharing with the group. In it, you said,
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted, " Matthew 5:4, TNIV.
I always wondered about this verse...did Jesus actually think that those who were mourning were blessed? That when you feel your heart is being ripped out because you're going one more day without someone you loved so much, you're blessed? What in the world was he talking about?
I know now that the blessing is not so much in the actual mourning, but in the reason for mourning. I have known some who do not mourn this way for their "loved ones," because they did not love this way. When we love, we open ourselves up to this kind of pain, because eventually everything we think "we have" goes away. There's no way to hold on to any of it...everything will be lost one day. The comfort is in knowing that to truly mourn, we must have truly loved, and this is what pleases Jesus the most.
Blessed are those who mourn, and comforted are those who mourn, because love is precious, exhilerating, and painful beyond almost anything else. But to love is to be like Christ. To lose what you love is to be like the Father. And to comfort others is to be like the Holy Spirit. I'm not sure if I'm strong enough to do it, but I sure want to try.
Leila
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