A Saint Is Going Home!

A dear lady in our church is in the nursing home and expected to pass away soon. As I visited with her and her family tonight, they realize that she is not just "passing away" but she's going home.

I have known Louetta for over fifty years and some of my first recollections of her were that of being a praying women who had an inside track on knowing God. She could and would pray so intently that you felt that you dare not move since you were in and felt the presence of God. She would pray for you as if you were her only son or daughter and that your dire situation was a world crisis. Many believe, as I do, that her prayers moved the hands of God.

Louetta and her husband Floyd, who awaits her in heaven, were a couple that loved people. Their first daughter Darci, was adopted as just a small girl. Later as an adult, she found her biological Mother and some of her siblings. Louetta and Floyd weren't at all threatened by this new found family connection! Floyd and Louetta just became, as if they were, parents to all of the rest of the family members.

Louetta lays in her bed tonight somewhere between here and heaven! As she became a little more conscious, her comment was, "those bright lights are really something!" The family agreed that Louetta was catching a glimpse of heaven and that Jesus was calling her home! In my cautiousness, I'm thinking that the Lord could be just teasing her. He could still allow her to stick around for a while but tonight He was wetting her appetite for her future move to heaven. Skeptically, I'm not going to believe it until she makes the trip! Once before she pulled this "going to heaven" chapter in her life, called me to the hospital and told me all the things to remember to say at her funeral. Back then the Lord healed her and gave her possibly the best five years, health wise in her life.

Just to think, how remarkable, it could be tonight that ... a Saint Is Going Home!