Sweet Cora

Yesterday I wrote of a sweet little one who has gone home to be with Jesus after her battle with cancer.

Today, I visited her parent's blog and felt led to see some of the blogs her mother read. You cannot imagine how AMAZED I was at God's response to my questioning of Him in yesterday's blog post by reading the following on another blog -- even the song, "Mighty to Save" is the song that was CONSTANTLY running through my mind all day on Saturday -- hours before Cora passed away on Sunday. The fact that it's not a song I had ever thought of before or had even sang or heard recently gives me chill bumps.

Here is what this friend of the family wrote in her blog:

“I know beyond a doubt that God is too wise to make a mistake, and too loving to be unkind.” God did ultimately answer our prayers. Cora’s cancer is gone. It’s healed. She’s free from it. However, He did not heal her cancer by keeping her on earth with us. So now, her parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends are not only left to mourn her loss BUT also to celebrate her life.

“But my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”

declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven,

and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish,

so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater.

So, it is my word that goes out from my mouth:

It will not return to me empty,

but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose

for which I sent it.”

Isaiah 55:8-11

According to those verses, only God has the reason why He took Cora’s earthly life from all of us. I can’t answer why Cora is no longer with us here.

I’ve been listening to some CDs of praise choruses A LOT in the last few days. These CDs contain a collection of choruses that Joel and Jess played for Cora while she was in the hospital. They were put together by Adam, our worship pastor at church. My new favorite praise song is “Mighty to Save.” Today, at the Celebration for Cora’s life, we sang, as a body, three different praise choruses. I’m told that Joel and Jess requested this music because Cora really enjoyed music. I was so very pleased that we sang this song. It’s a GREAT reminder that God is God. He can move mountains. His Son conquered the grave. He conquered the grave so that we all could be forgiven for our sins we commit.