As printed in the newspaper column: A Voice In The Mountains, By Alan D. Turner

AT PEACE WITH THE LORD

In the previous article titled, The Lord and His Nancy, I shared how The Lord’s close personal relationship with Nancy enabled her to transcend to her Eternal Home without struggling on 01.12.2022. Lord knows that she had struggled enough for the four years leading up to her departure; that she did not need to further struggle up to her final breath.

In this article, I will be sharing comments that I made at My sweet Nancy’s Memorial Service; on how she was not only able to come at peace with her Lord concerning her departure, but through her, she was able to help me to come to terms with it as well.

Just before I got up to speak it was Tony Turner who was speaking, and while he was quoting from The Bible Philippians 4:7 how that, “The Peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”; the lyrics of a song came to me, “The only real peace that I have Dear Lord is in You.”

Tony’s quote and the song lyrics was divinely inspired by The Holy Spirit, for earlier that same morning The Lord was giving to me the outline of what I was to speak on concerning Nancy’s Heavenly Home-Going, with the main thought being how that My Nancy was finally at peace WITH her Lord, and how we much come at Peace IN our same Lord.

So, when I started out speaking, I did so by proclaiming how that it is that very peace that comes from my personal relationship with my Good Lord is the only real peace that’s keeping me. Then, I reached into my pocket and pulled out a little stone with writing on it that Nancy had bought, and I shared how this stone came into my possession:

One of the last times Nancy and I went to Lexington for yet another wasted doctor appointment, we had a little time to wait, so we walked around a little gift shop at the hospital and I told Nancy if she found something that she liked, we’ll buy it and take it home, so she bought this little stone with writing on it that reads, “At peace with the Lord”. I didn’t think much about it at the time she bought it; I thought it was for her own encouragement to keep her trust and faith in The Lord to bring her through this sickness that was attempting to take her life.

It was my initial impression that she was going to carry this little stone in her purse, and when she would go through yet another endless medical procedure or test, she would hold the little stone in her hand as a reminder to be “at peace”, while she was enduring the procedure; struggling with her breathing and the increasing of the high level of pain that she was already coping with on not only a day by day, but hour by hour, and even becoming a minute by minute ongoing occurrence.

Some people call these types of stones, “Reminder Stones”. And through the years, Nancy had given out such little stones to people whom she believed needed to be reminded to keep their faith in God during some hardship or trial they were in; to encourage them that God was going to bring them through it and it would eventually end. These were simple little smooth pebbles or rocks (with no writings on them) that Nancy would find around our home that she would pray over before giving them out.

It wasn’t until we got back home from Lexington, did I get a clue why Nancy really bought this particular little stone with this specific writing on it; that it wasn’t for her, but it was for me? For when I got the little stone out of the little store bag to give it to her to place it in her purse; that she told me to just place it next to the phone on the little end table in the living room?

When I asked her, “wasn’t she going to keep the little stone with her, that she could have it when she went to her next doctor appointment?” That she told me, that the stone was not that type of stone. It wasn’t purchased to be a reminder stone, but a “Memorial Stone”.

Though it initially could be used to bring “peace” to the one who is suffering with a sickness, it’s main purpose is be a “memory” for their loved ones who would be left behind, that their loved one was no longer suffering; because their healing came by way of being delivered “from” the sickness, instead of “in it” as hoped.

I now know that Nancy was not only preparing herself that she would soon be free from her suffering by way of soon being “with” The Lord. But, she was also preparing me as well. It was her hope that something as simple as the little stone would be a comforting reminder to not only me, but to all those surviving loved ones that she was not in that grave, but in Heaven (Paradise) with her Lord.

Of course, my initial reaction was to not even to go there! So, I placed the stone near the phone, and I let the conversation go. For at that time, I could not (or would not) allow myself to even consider what was coming within just a few months.

Just prior to leaving our home to come to town for Nancy’s Memorial Service; as I was passing the little end table, I was drawn (by The Spirit) to the little stone. I picked it up and placed in my pocket with my original thought of placing it with My Nancy, but –since the Memorial Service and after the words that The Lord gave me to speak over Nancy, concerning how that I know that in all of her life, she is now and forever at peace, because she is forever WITH her Lord. Nancy’s hope that the stone would help me with the grief of her leaving came to fruition.

I hope that my “Little Prophetess” knows that her following The Lord’s leading to buy that little “Memorial Stone”, is indeed being used to help me come to terms with her going on ahead of me. Once again, it amazes me how she was able to hear “The Voice of Her God” so clearly; that same voice that she has been hearing from at a very early age of under 5 years old and right up to her last days on this current earth.

Until the time appointed when all those of us who are still alive (in Christ) will be reunited with all those who have died (in Christ), to never to be apart again throughout eternity (2 Thessalonians 4: 13-18 and 2 Corinthians 5: 7-9); I will always have that little stone as a memory of My Nancy; to keep me going until I can finally go be where she is.

THIS HAS BEEN ONE MAN’S OPINION OF MINE AND THE LORD’S NANCY.

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04/10/2022 — adt