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Friday, September 23, 2016

My Wife and Blog partner went home this morning...day 1 numb

1 John 4:7-10            [ God Is Love ]
"My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God."

My Dear Friends and family, This morning as swiftly as Love came home to me the woman who made me feel Beloved...returned Home, Love to Love , to be with and in... the presence of her Father, Lord, and Saviour, and True Lover of who she is...Jesus. Cat and I shared almost 17 years of passionate moments. Oh for sure not all sweet and pleasurable...yet in every moment of pain, loss, trouble, scars, and tears... Cat embraced each moment with the same Passion... the expression of the revelation of Love powering through her heart.  That power Love's pure energy, drove her.  One of the many things I admired and loved about her was when someone met Cat...they knew her.  She was up front and straight forward to a fault Like her best friend and saviour Jesus.   Truth be told...she would!  Wanting only that others would see Jesus in her.  With her I shared that same desire and together we stood behind, supported, and encouraged that in each other...and to those God put in our circle of influence...or in relationship with.  We'd been put together to grow and develop as a "new creation"   We were a "couple"...  the one flesh, in a larger body,  we were two persons living by the life of another...more of a "triple" actually...
To the very end of her residence in the corporeal form born Cathleen Lou Fast she took each piece of life tasted it chewing and digesting it into her very heart where space, time, and matter don't "matter"...only one thing...Our love...mattered,  As expressed in one of her fav worship songs...(please listen with ears to hear)      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_KXsMCJgBQ
And that power...Grace...and I have been blessed and fulfilled to have known anyone so incredibly...Grace-ful. Her passion made things happen  they so touched the heart of God.  Like Jesus, God works through obedient servants...I can see her now sitting at her sewing machine...smiling...she did it unconsciously...Passionate Love smiles Sisters and Brothers..and it changed my life...We shared a name and a heart and a time.  And together we both came and agreed...that God made for her just what He made in me!  A passion...creative unto itself...  And the smile goes on and on and on and on it goes!
Rock and Roll! Jesus is the Rock and we Roll!   want to say so much more  floodgates just started to open   She was Our friend and I love being a part of such an awesome friend relationship  She so enjoyed her facebook staying in touch and sharing her passion for the Word...seeing pics of her family, grands and greats she expressed such pride in you all she truly valued relationship...from the Friends made over her custom Creations, to the Body of Christ the bride which we are of...to the fellowship of suffering     which she embraced with an attitude that glorified God...I wont be on much but will endeavor to share with you the blessing that was Cat and the Passion that IS Cat...
 She's home rockin' and rollin' with her dad and the great cloud of witnesses...shouting  as we do too...Halleluia!
It is indeed "funny" odd to me that even though she is "gone"  The Love grows stronger...It is after all ...a Love thing...

1 comment:

  1. Chef Leo, I had not seen this until tonight. I have not been on FB much. I'm trying to get my website up and running and it is Whew! WAY over my head. Know that my heart goes out to you. May you rest in the Strength, peace and joy that comes from our Heavenly Father and Lord Jesus. God bless...Linda

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