As we walk this earth, death and life journey together alongside us. Death the enemy—life the friend. Death the separator, cold and hard as the marble marker on the grave, the hurtful one, ugly in nature. Life the sustainer, the lover, the friend, the very presence of God himself. On rare occasions, they may switch roles. In my situation, that happened twice when I begged death to become my friend. Death and grief—cause and effect—physical and emotional in nature—inseparable.
-Jean Cook, Witness to Reconciliation, January 2013
During the Season of Reconciliation this past January and February, four Hope Church members shared their Witness to Reconciliation during the 11 a.m. worship service. Click on the links below to read and/or listen to one of those powerful testimonies offered by Jean Cook on January 20, 2013.