What A Day That Will Be - you sleep alone in a double bed. You walk the hallways of a silent house. You catch yourself calling out his name or reaching for her hand. Goodbye is the challenge of your life. To get through this is to get through this raging loneliness, this strength-draining grief. Just the separation has exhausted your spirit. You feel quarantined, isolated. If heaven’s throne room has a calendar, one day is circled in red and highlighted in yellow. Jesus will come down from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then the rest of us who are still alive will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet the Master” What a day that will be. We’ll be walking on air. And there will be one huge family reunion in heaven

You sleep alone in a double bed. 

You walk the hallways of a silent house. 

You catch yourself calling out his name or reaching for her hand. 

Goodbye is the challenge of your life. 

To get through this is to get through this raging loneliness, this strength-draining grief. 

Just the separation has exhausted your spirit. 

You feel quarantined, isolated. 

May I give you some hope? 

If heaven’s throne room has a calendar, one day is circled in red and highlighted in yellow. 

The Bible says, “The Master himself will give the command.

 Archangel thunder! 

God’s trumpet blast!

 He will come down from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise first. 

Then the rest of us who are still alive will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet the Master” - (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 MSG). 

What a day that will be! 

We’ll be walking on air. 

And there will be one huge family reunion.

Max Lucado

Max Lucado is a pastor, speaker, and best-selling author who, in his own words, “writes books for people who don’t read books.” He serves the people of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, and his message is for the hurting, the guilty, the lonely, and the discouraged: God loves you; let him.

As a writer, Max is known for combining poetic storytelling and homespun humor with the heart of a pastor. All of his trade books began as sermon series at Oak Hills Church, and his sermons all begin with Max asking himself this question: “What can I say on Sunday that will still matter on Monday?” He’s been dubbed “America’s Pastor” by Christianity Today, and “The Best Preacher in America” by Reader’s Digest.

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