For All the Saints

Today is the Festival of All Saints. We gather to remember all the faithful and lift up those in prayer who have died during the past year. This has been a burdensome year as death has been ever before us and intruded into the lives of many families bringing sickness and death. Death stings; we try to avoid it, yet we are reminded today that death is not the end. Hope lives because Jesus lives! The kingdom of God will one day come in its glory. All who mourn will be comforted and God will wipe every tear from our eyes.