Friday, January 23, 2009

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God

Today, my heart feels truly broken for the Fitzgerald family.

Ray was diagnosed last May with metastasized liver cancer. After nearly seven months of chemo and radiation, his doctors determined on Tuesday that everything medical that could be done had been. Ray's home going was Wednesday, his cancer is healed and he has no more suffering.

Although, we rejoice with his family that Ray is in heaven, we pray for those that are mourning for him on earth, especially for his wife, Kristin and his three young daughters under the age of 7, Nora, Maggie and Lucy.

Kristin has been such an inspiration. Her courageousness is truly beyond any earthly ability. Even when sharing the news of Ray's death, she closed her email with this verse.
"Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins." Isaiah 40:1-2

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