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To beloved family, friends, and patients of Dr. Mary Campilii THE LINCOLN JOURNAL, Lincolnton, Georgia The mother of the five-year-old Joshua who drowned to death in a local pond would like to extend an invitation this Thursday night from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Washington Seventh Day Adventist Church at the end of Robert Toombs Avenue where Highway 78 intersects Alternate 78. She will provide dinner and comforting ministry of song and eulogy. If anyone is led to offer up a gift of song or words glorifying God, they may do so at that hour. We are not going to say "Goodbye," rather, we will talk about love (life and trust.) Love is the true emotion that remains and reminds us we are all the same. When the emergency room physician nodded "no," the whole world faded away. I stood with feeling of insurmountable emptiness and heartbreak. Groping and searching for meaning, a reason, I found God. God inspired this memorial. Songs from Celine Dions' album, Let's Talk About Love, of titles, The Reason, Immortality and My Heart Will Go On, will play. Thank you for being there at the time my crisis was brand new. That is when the story of my life hit with all the shock, grief, anxiety and uncertainty that comes with the loss of a parent's only son. Humans often use humor to keep the death from being real. They want to get away and stay apart from the unbearable. So many were used in the comfort and encouragement ministry by living as compassionate brothers and sisters, listening attentively to a hurting person that needed to talk about it (good listeners make healers) and acting anticipatively by making funeral arrangements, cooking meals, sending gifts, calling, praying, etc. When all of you went away, though, I am still in a time of crisis. The reality is more real each passing moment. Yet I remain leaning on God's promises. God's Word continues to fillme with healing and comfort supernaturally all through my sleepless nights and into the next mornings. I forever offer myself as an empty vessel for God's Holy Spirit to fillcontinuously. So God's outpouring has not stopped. God's words are more necessary than food. I am feeding my soul as if to get spiritual indigestion. The following gives you a sample of some of God's words I was hearing on Christian radio: "Jesus" (in Hebrew, "Joshua.") Of all names mothers have named, one stands alone, solitary and immovable. Though many jest or even curse the name of Jesus, God promises in his Word one day every knee in heaven and earth will bow before him who bears it and declare "He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords." It is the sweetest sound to come from infant lips, sustains us through life and will be our security when we embark on our final journey. All our hopes for this world and next center on it. Best joy, hopes, aspiration and motivations spring from it. Every other name may pass away but His never will. "Jesus" means "full of GRACE." Grace is the only topic that matters. Jesus is not only the first and last but the center of all things. Heroes of faith have the promise of an inheritance that will satisfy the longings of the soul. Check if your faith is not satisfied in ALL things. Stop asking yourself how you feel. Be an example of steadfastness and calm repose in God in your darkest hour to feel our Father is at the helm. The eye of faith alone can look beyond things of time and sense to estimate the worth of eternal riches. Believe in Sovereignty (believe God knows what you are going through.) Unbelievers face grief and calamity and say there is no meaning to it. As a believer you know the meaning is that there is a goldsmith (God) behind this. Know God is not yet finished working on refiningme; boiling, pounding, rubbing out, etc., till he can see his image in you. Faith is more precious than gold. The song, "When sorrows like sea billows roll, I will say it is well with my soul," was written by a man whose children all died in a boating accident. Like Job in the Bible, everything can be taken yet still my Faith perseveres. Death strikes as doubt and fear if you do not know where you stand. I know where I stand because I have undergone a complete immersion baptism, as Jesus did when he was 30 years old, confessing Jesus is Lord, accepting the undeserved gift of GRACE that the perfect Lamb of God paid the penalty of death for my sins, and asking for the Holy Spirit to come into me. Martha accused Jesus, "If you had been there (done your work) Lazarus would not have died. Jesus was accused, "Where were you?" Delays do not mean mistakes or cruelty, just that he is sovereign. Is your child ready that he/she might not live till the end of the month? Jesus was facing the unbelief of the crowd around Lazarus' tomb where his body had been decaying for days. He had the reluctant crowd roll away the stone and resurrected that gruesome body. Likewise, he will have no problem resurrecting us. Jesus alone is the resurrection and the LIFE. God has captured your attending, for until you are ready to die, you will not be ready to really live. Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior of LIFE and DEATH. Faith is bigger than Fear. In Joshua chapter one verse nine, Joshua commanded his followers to be strong and courageous. Don't be dismayed or afraid, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go (even jail, death, etc.) Do not have a belief of your own. Rather, have God's belief. Then, it is difficultto argue with what God says. God speaks his word to you from the Bible. It is spiritual wisdom rather than wisdom of the world. Stubborn fools hate wisdom and have no interest in knowledge. They would rather delight in their own (ample) words. They do not have the feeling that "God is God and I am not." Stubborn fools respond to the Bible by being quick to quarrel. They reason out for themselves without checking it with the word of God. Only their way can possibly to right because their opinions are from not more than themselves. I pray all who receive my letter, take a turning point and begin reading the Bible regularly to your children. You will do your duty to mature them as a child of faith. Jesus is coming quickly. It was not easy for Mary to look upon her son suffer and die. Nor was it easy to not be able to kiss his forehead any more because of the massive blood. Yet his death saved the whole world. I asked God to reveal his purpose behind my son's death as well. It is a turning point in my life. History teaches humans. It is a reference point for knowing what to do. A working knowledge of scripture reveals my spiritual gifts were meant to be shared with others and theirs with me for profit for all. From now on, I seek significance,not success. God has laid on my heart a ministry for unwed mothers' homes. I am commissioned to go forward with this non-profit (church) ministry in the name of "Joshua's Home." Babies will be born under the care of mothers with a working knowledge and wisdom of the truth. They will need to guide children emotionally and spend time till they mature as a Christian, not children at risk. God has the keys that will open the door and no man can shut it. Pray to see the open doors. If anyone reading this has an interest in Joshua's Home, reach me by cell phone 706-401-4116 or e-mail me at commandskeeper@ hotmail.com. May God richly bless you.
Mary Campilii
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