Death of a cancer victim

The meditation text: "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."

The little house they lived in is empty. Quickly now, before we get too teary-eyed about that fact, we must listen closely to the words of Jesus about another house, invisible to us now, but every bit as real as the one across town."I go to prepare a place for you," Jesus said. He called the place a place of mansions, many of them. With that promise of Christ in our ears, and with the memory of the house across town in our hearts, we ought be able to see what good news this is; the occasion of___________'s moving from a little house to a mansion.Honestly speakin…