Now an Infinite Time in Heaven
Glorifying God
October 18,
2001
Dear Family
and Friends,
Thank
you for coming to this celebration of the life of Cynthia Le Shoenhair.
Cindy was a unique and precious life. Many of you knew Cindy.
Some of you happened to know her very well. Some of you simply
knew of her through another individual. It is for those of you
who knew her casually or not at all that this message is penned.
For
the past five years and ten months Cindy faced breast cancer.
In the end, her body succumbed, but no one could ever say her
spirit did. Throughout this painful journey, her faith in God
was unwavering. I was fortunate to know her well. She had this
incredible faith; she had no doubts. Cindy was fearful of the
impact her sickness and potential death would have on her family
and friends but she never expressed self doubts or fear towards
her own fate. When the cancer first came back after three and
a half years, our first conversation was entirely focused on her
concerns for the children and I. To this day, I am still humbled
by her faith and focus.
During
the “remission years” Cindy was very clear with me that if the
cancer were to come back she knew there was no medical cure. True
health and cleansing would rightfully come from our Lord, if it
were His will. Once she was re-diagnosed, she was rock solid.
While she fought the disease with every medical and nutritional
effort she believed in, she held fast to her knowledge that the
Lord could cure her, if it were His will. That faith stayed with
her as strong at the end of her life as it was in the beginning
of her journey. The Lord gave my wife tremendous strength.
There
were few tenants to Cindy’s life. She kept things simple so that
she could accomplish much. Those tenants could be described in
the following five phrases:
Serve
Christ
Mother her Children
Wife
of Dan
True Friend to all that would have her
Love
her students
Cindy
believed if one’s priorities were correctly ordered and simply
understood as well as faithfully practiced, life was a simple
pleasure a holy gift from God. Even in the end, her life was
a simple pleasure. But for Cindy, the end was just the beginning.
In
closing, I was fortunate to have received a copy of an e-mail
from my wife to a very new, but very dear friend. I think it
expresses her feelings about the Lord and her interpretation of
her short life: Cindy had written:“ I hope God will use me and
this situation as a vessel to honor and glorify His name.”
Please
help me make her hopes and prayers come true in this regard.
If you have not accepted Christ into your life and wish to do
so today, please come to see either myself, a pastor or one of
my three brothers in Christ from my covenant group. We would
like to pray with you and help you start your walk with Christ.
This would have been Cindy’s final wish, but much more importantly
should be recognized as God’s will to draw you near to Him.
God
is good! Blessed be the Lord.
Dan
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