Juliette

My cousin B's little girl Juliette ran was hit by a driver in a Mcdonald's parking lot this weekend. She was transferred to a hospital near my home and died Friday night. I'm going to her funeral on Wednesday in Idaho. My whole family (45 cousins plus kids and friends) fasted and prayed for my cousin B's family this weekend. I honestly lacked the faith that such a loss could leave the family with any kind of sanity. I still hoped my prayers would count. But today, her sister said that B and her husband have peace. I was a little shocked, but I'm not skeptical. I hope they continue to feel it.


Loss and death. 
Healing and peace.
How to get from one to the other? Jesus Christ


This week at church people kept mentioning the atonement of Jesus Christ, (Atonement= redemption). 
Such a complex and important principle.
Losses, weaknesses, sins, and all kinds of sadness are part of this human experience. 
But miracle of miracles happen: peace, healing, or compensation come. 
This gift is grace, in that we are undeserving every time. 
It is pure love, in that we are the recipients of unconditional and boundless heaps of it.


Too often I forget that I can access this power. I try to fix it all on my own. I forget that I can go to the Savior and give him my burdens and he will make them light.

"God has infinite attention to spare to each one of us. He does not have to deal with us in the mass. You are as much alone with Him as if you were the only being He had ever created. When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only man or woman in the world." C.S. Lewis

I don't know what you have lost, but I know that God can make it up to you. 



Juliet: A Life Story from Candice Rail on Vimeo.