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Thank you Jesus!!!

Thank you to all those who prayed for me and to my lovely friends here!

One of my prayers has been answered and has made my exit from the black tunnel much nearer!

I want to glorify Jesus and thank him. Something that was making me very unwell, Jesus has helped me.

The mountain of recovery has just got smaller.

He's here. He really is here. And He really is helping us all.

Thank you for all the lovely messages, prayers and verses of encouragement. I have read them all several times and it is very comforting. Thank you.

Yes I do feel guilt for not being able to attend the funeral. Or for not being able to make it to the hospital before she passed away. We live so far away, (I'm in the north of Scotland, and my mum was in Bournemouth), and we tried so hard to get down there, but we just couldn't do it. I was phoning friends down south letting them know the situation, and they were going into the hospital to visit her. She wasn't communicating, or alert, but it was good that she had Christian friends visit her in her last days. It's just a shame that I wasn't one of them.

After she passed away on October 6th, and we realized we weren't going to make the funeral, the funeral director offered to delay the funeral for us, so that it gave my health a chance to improve, so we accepted his offer. The funeral was delayed by two weeks, so instead of the funeral being on October 23rd, it was on November 9th. But again I just wasn't well enough to do it. It would have meant a good 15 hour journey, depending on traffic and then we would have had to go straight to the funeral service, as opposed to arriving the day before and getting some sleep.

I just knew I couldn't go straight to my mum's funeral after a long journey like that, with no sleep, and already feeling ill before we had even set off. We would then have had to drive straight back home after the funeral, as we had no accommodation down there to stay in. We tried very hard to find somewhere, but for some reason, the prices down there have soared since we last visited my mum, which was last May. So it would have also meant missing two nights sleep.

I have grown closer to Jesus throughout this. It has certainly made Heaven more real to me. It’s now not just something we talk about that will happen to us one day when we eventually die, but my mum is now actually there in Heaven with Jesus, for real. I am also very much looking forward to being there when my time comes, although it feels a very long way off for me as I’m only 44 and my mum was 86.

Hi there,

Please may I ask for prayers. My mum passed away on October 6th, in hospital, with heart failure. I live 700 miles away from where my mum lived, and due to difficult circumstances I was unable to attend the funeral in person, after much trying to do so. A friend of mine live video called me from the funeral service, so I was able to watch it on my computer.

Since my mum died two months ago, I feel like my life has fallen off a cliff edge. We are currently in difficult personal circumstances, that started just after my mum died, which is causing extra strain and stress, and my health has considerably deteriorated as well. For the last two weeks, I have literally cried all day, everyday. I feel like I am in a black tunnel, and every now and then I think I can see a light at the end of the tunnel, (not literally), but then it feels like it disappears and I feel like I'm back in that black tunnel again. I have a lovely husband, and although we are strong together, I know that my incredibly low mood is badly affecting him.

Also, because we live in the middle of nowhere, we have no near networks of friends close by, and we both feel very isolated and alone, even more so at this time of year.

I have my faith in Jesus. I am praying to him everyday. This morning I fell down on my knees in tears and prayed for him to help me, and to get me out of this black tunnel and return to some kind of normality again. I am reading his word, I have a close Christian friend, who lives near where my mum lived, who is being a great support via e-mail. Please can you add me to your prayers.

Thanks.
Becky.