12-Year-Old

____________ and ____________, friends and loved ones of ____________, dear friends in Christ, grace to you and peace from God, our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. Amen.

"And Jesus took them in his arms." What a beautiful picture that is of the love our Lord has for his children. There is a hotel or more probably a rooming house I know of called The Redeemer's Arms. Huge white letters are mounted on the side of the building announcing its name. Those many times I have driven past there, I've always thought how terrific it might be to answer the question, "Where do you live?" by saying, "Oh, I live in The Redeemer's Arms."

But that is exactly where ____________ lived those all too brief 12 years -- in his Redeemer's arms. Born on ____________, his doctors det…