Emphasis Preaching Journal

Agnes and William had been married sixty years. For the most part they'd been good years -- marred only by their inability to have children and by the deaths of family members and close friends. Then William died. Agnes was overcome by grief. Over and over again she said, "Now I'm all alone. I'm the only one left in my family." At the cemetery, she wept in a friend's arms and said, "Now I won't see my William until I get to heaven. What am I going to do? I'm all alone now." Agnes had a hard time leaving the cemetery to go back to the church for a time of fellowship.