Life,Death,and Incarnation

Fellow Labourers-

I know not all of us are enjoying the current weather, but if you have to 'tidy' more that two days per week you would be happy for the rains. As we consider the subject I am celebrating our 36th wedding anniversary with the same girl I met in my teens 39 years ago. She is still as beautiful as the day I met her. Please pray for us as we turn another page in our lives. Take a close look at this section below and ponder what God has done for us when he sent his Son into the world. He came to die so that we might live.


"For a few inmates, however, the Angola hospice volunteer program has drastically changed this. In 1998, equipped with a variety of staff trustees and inmate volunteers, the LSP hospice opened its doors to its first terminally ill inmate. Today it is recognized as one of the best programs of its kind. Giving inmate volunteers a role in the creation of the hospice and the primary care during the dying process, inmates find themselves in the position to tangibly affect the lives of others for good. Reckoning with death as a fate that awaits all of humanity as they care for dying friends and strangers, prisoners gradually let go of hardened demeanors. One inmate notes, "I've seen guys that used to run around Angola, and want to fight and drug up, actually cry and be heartbroken over the patient." Another describes being present in the lives of the dying and how much this takes from the living. "But it puts a lot in you," he adds. Yet a third inmate describes how caring for strangers on the brink of death has put an end to his lifelong anger and helped him to confront his guilt with greater honesty."

The best way to live is to serve others.

Pax Vobiscum,

Robert Stewart