The Celebration of Eternal Life for Lorena Gavaris

 

Thank you all for your prayers and kind words at this time.

       (click here.) 'All our life He has been faithful' -                                                              He hasn't stopped now

        (click here.)  A tribute to Lorena -                                                   photos and music

·    The entire service may be viewed by clicking here (Be sure to immediately turn on the speaker in the Zoom –  lower right) Dean’s eulogy 17 minutes.     

       ·    Lorena’s Committal Service (6 minutes) click here

·   ‘Knowing what I know about heaven’  click here - Thank you to Jen and Harold Mathisen of First Baptist Millburn for this comforting video sent to me

·    Correction: At the funeral for Lorena I said, “The Bible tells me that there is no marriage in heaven, but I see no prohibition with having best friends. Lorena was my best friend here, so I’m looking forward to that.“Allow me to correct that a little

          I love one of John Pipers quote. Just substitute 'Lorena' for the word 'he' and you how encouraging his words are to me: He had become so embedded in your life that for him to be absent is, yes, for part of  you yourself to be absent. That’s true. Things will never be just the same again. And it would dishonor him to think that they should be. But consider this: not all that you became by union with him is lost. You know it’s not. You became a wiser, deeper, better person because of life with him. He did not take all of that with him when he left. You know he didn’t. You know who you are. And what you became through him is not less, but more than you were before he entered your life. God has not made you less, but more. Things will never be the same. That’s true. But God’s call on your life now is to be the person you became through love with your husband, for the glory of God.     

          ·   Memorial Bulletin

       ·   Gateway Board of Directors Resolution 

       Some additional thoughts

·       The Kollyva for Lorena

·       Hymn History (Day by Day)

·       Bible Comfort in a time of Loss

·       Where is God when it Hurts

Life is short. Where will you be for all eternity?