| WHEN | | | | with. |
| From the time we are born, we begin our | | | | He said, "Like you told me baby brotha, I have |
| journey home. God is calling us. God is calling us to | | | | got to come to God with me. All I have is me to |
| have a loving relationship with him so that we will | | | | come to him with. I've got to come to the table |
| know how to have a loving relationship with | | | | with everything I have got to get to God." At |
| others. God is our spiritual parent from birth. GOD | | | | that point I knew my brother was listening to |
| IS LOVE! My brother went home to see God on | | | | God's call for him to come home. Only God |
| Christmas. | | | | knows, what my brother was thinking when he |
| We grow up from an infant not knowing anything | | | | died on Christmas morning December 25, 2005, |
| but love, and the need for nurturing and food. We | | | | but I'm sure it had something to do with God |
| grow into adolescence where we begin to take in | | | | because he was calling on the name of Jesus as |
| life as we see it and as we learn it. Life teaches | | | | he was passing away from this life. His sons said, |
| us good and evil things. From adolescence into | | | | "That was just like Dad to go out on Christmas |
| adulthood we shape our life through making | | | | day." |
| decisions. God is calling us. It is important for us to | | | | To understand this statement, you would have to |
| heed God's call because He knows what is best | | | | understand the uniqueness of Estus T. Berry Jr. |
| for me and you. Some never respond to God's | | | | He was a loving person who always enjoyed |
| call, some respond immediately, some respond | | | | people. He never met a stranger and he treated |
| but hesitate, some respond and then turn away, | | | | you like you were his family. He had a way of |
| but all of us are being called to God by God. It is | | | | making you feel special. He was a charming man. I |
| up to us to make the choice to listen to God's call | | | | think God wanted to make him feel special on this |
| for us. | | | | Christmas day, the day that we celebrate the |
| He is calling me now. He wants me to enjoy life | | | | birth of Jesus. Now our family will rejoice on this |
| and be happy. He is calling you now. He wants you | | | | day for Estus T. Berry Jr.'s spirit soul birth into the |
| to enjoy life and be happy. He wants us to know | | | | after life. From this moment on, Christmas will be |
| that it is not enough to simply enjoy life and be | | | | even more special to us who miss and love Estus |
| happy though. God wants us to know that we | | | | T. J |
| have a soul that is spirit; a soul that will live on | | | | WHAT ABOUT US STILL LIVING? |
| after the body dies. God wants us to realize that | | | | "I hope that today you find true love, I hope that |
| the soul and the body were created by Him to | | | | you get all the things that you dream of, I hope |
| work together as one in the same spirit to be | | | | that you never give up, life goes on." are lyrics |
| able to communicate with Him. | | | | from a song from a music group called Floetry. |
| WHY | | | | One thing for the living which is a constant is |
| God loves us like His children and wants to be able | | | | "facing the past is always harder than moving into |
| to help us when we need Him. The only way to | | | | the future," another lyric from a song from the |
| communicate with God is in spirit and in truth. God | | | | singing group Floetry. Psalms 139:8 says, "If I |
| wants us to know that just like we came into the | | | | ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make |
| world, as an infant needing to be taken care of | | | | my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." |
| without any knowledge or sense of being in | | | | Sometimes in life we feel like we are in heaven |
| control of anything, we will leave this world. | | | | and then other times we feel like we are in hell. All |
| WHAT THE BIBLE HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT | | | | of the time, God is with us if we abide in Him and |
| The Bible speaks of a man not being able to | | | | allow Him to abide in us. I want everyone to |
| make one hair black or white on his head | | | | know that God does not leave us; we leave God, |
| Matthew 5:36 and for us to be pure in heart | | | | but we can always come back home. Whatever |
| Matthew 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart: for | | | | your past, God will meet you at the door when |
| they shall see God." | | | | you come back home to Him and He will bless |
| Jesus said those that worship God must worship | | | | you. The Bible says, in Luke 11:10 "For every one |
| Him in spirit and in truth, John 4: 23-24. The truth | | | | that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh |
| is we must do all we can, and know that God will | | | | findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be |
| do the rest. My friend told me "if you do 1%, God | | | | opened." The book of Revelation 3:20 says |
| will do the other 99% for you." Through prayer | | | | "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any |
| and fasting God teaches us what we must do, | | | | man hear my voice, and open the door, I will |
| but you have to know how to communicate with | | | | come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with |
| God through His own words, the words of Jesus | | | | me." If you come to God, sup with Him and learn |
| and His disciples, and the prophets in the Bible. | | | | of Him and how to communicate with Him. |
| Isaiah 55:9 says "For as the heavens are higher | | | | He will bless you. With God's blessing you can put |
| than the earth, so are my ways higher than your | | | | the past behind you and never look back at it the |
| ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." | | | | same way. The Bible says, in the book of Luke |
| Isaiah 55:11 says "So shall my word be that goeth | | | | 9:62, "And Jesus said unto him, No man, having |
| forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto | | | | put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit |
| me void, but it shall accomplish that which I | | | | for the kingdom of God." God will bless you never |
| please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I | | | | to look back at your past again. This kind of |
| sent it." | | | | blessing is not automatic, you have to accept it. |
| So we must understand that it is the Lord God | | | | It's a gift just for you. |
| whose word is sufficient to accomplish everything | | | | You have to want a relationship with God to really |
| in our life. We just have to trust in God and His | | | | experience God's love, just like you would have to |
| word. There is nothing that should stop anyone | | | | want a relationship with your loved one to |
| from heading God's call for them. All a person has | | | | experience their love. The difference is, you don't |
| to do is just accept what God has to offer, | | | | have to work for God's love, you just have to |
| eternal life for your spirit soul. Accept it like you | | | | accept it. God's love is all that you need. |
| do a present from your parent. God's love is a | | | | There are many spirits we deal with on a daily |
| present to us all. No matter what we have or | | | | basis. You have to make a choice to listen to |
| don't have, did or did not do, it is a present that | | | | God's call for you. God is a spirit and His spirit is |
| he wants us to have. Isaiah 55:1 says "Ho, every | | | | not complicated; it's not something you can work |
| one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and | | | | for, and it's not something that will make you do |
| he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; | | | | anything. God's spirit is gentle, warm, loving and |
| yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and | | | | meek toward His children. Just like any natural |
| without price." God's salvation, love, mercy and | | | | parent would be toward their child. Like a parent, |
| grace are free, He just wants us to accept it and | | | | God simply wants to GIVE you good things |
| allow our spirit soul to find its way back home to | | | | because you are His child. Like a parent, God has |
| God. | | | | rules to live by that His children must obey or |
| MY BROTHER'S PASSING | | | | they have to leave the house. Unlike some |
| I am glad that my brother was able to call on | | | | parent's though, if you have left the house and |
| Jesus to help him. My brother suffered, but not | | | | you want to come home, you are always |
| too much. God knew just how much he could | | | | welcome back in God's house. Some natural |
| stand. When someone you love is dying and dies, | | | | parents refuse to allow his or her child to come |
| it is never easy to take. We read the word of | | | | back home. God's love is not like that, it is sooooo |
| God to him, my sisters played gospel music for | | | | much better. Choose today to accept God and his |
| him to usher in the spirit of God (to listen to | | | | love for you. He is calling you right now, just listen. |
| gospel music, I recommend you visit ), played | | | | I hear Him and I have made my choice to love |
| sermons on tape for him, (to listen to a variety | | | | God and accept His gift of eternal life for my |
| of preachers I suggest visiting ), my brothers and | | | | spirit soul. How about you? Do you hear God |
| I encouraged him in the word of God, we all | | | | calling you? If so, please e-mail me and let me |
| preached salvation to him through the word of | | | | know your answer is. I would be very interested |
| God. He told me that he went to God with all of | | | | to know. |
| himself because that is all he had to come to God | | | | |