I was (finally!!!!!) cleaning my study today when I picked up my Bible from Urbana 2000. I noticed that things were stuck in the pages and I pulled them out. The “things” happened to be two funeral cards from two of the people I knew who died during my junior year of high school. One was Mrs. Cooke, my 8th grade English teacher and the other was my friend Gabe Maze. When I’d switched over to my Urbana Bible after coming back, I’d stuck them in certain spots and I guess I forgot to remove them. I thought about them a year ago and wondered where they had gone. Praise God that they are found.

Mrs. Cooke’s card is stuck in Jeremiah 29:11-13 because she had always encouraged us to follow our dreams. The story of the placement of Gabe’s card is this:

The night of his funeral, I was going to put the card in a spot in my Bible. I was in tears and I decided to open it up and see where I wound up. Well… I opened it to John 14:1-4: “Let not your heart be troubled; you 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. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know” I stuck it there.

Granted, I could have opened my Bible to a passage talking about the flames of hell or something; but I think the Lord knew that I needed comfort at that point and the message was *exactly* what I needed to hear.