Christmas and New Year's greetings from me who is now a widower and alone after my beloved wife Berit Christensen died!

Picture of Jesus and my beloved wife Berit Christensen.
This is a made-up picture, but can illustrate how Berit is now.
Surrounded by Jesus and Heavenly beings like the Angels.

The scripture says:
1 Thess. 4. 13 I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep. Do not grieve as others do who have no hope.

Paul speaks some very strong words here. We should grieve, but not grieve like unbelievers

In other words, we who know that we will meet again.
Living forever and ever with the Lord, should not grieve as the children of this World.

Those who have died are asleep, says the scripture.
They are with the Lord, says the apostle in another place.
In other words, they are away from the body.
But at home with God. In with Jesus, and myriads of angels.

From my Bible commentaries Hebrews 12. 22 No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to ten thousand angels, to a feast gathering,
We have talked about throughout the letter that Jesus prays for all believers every day. The heavenly sanctuary is founded on Mount Zion in heaven.
Eph. 2. 6 In Christ Jesus he has raised us from the dead together with him and seated us in heaven with him.
The city of God is the New Jerusalem specifically explained in Revelation 21-22.
To the myriads of angels, they are of a number that only God knows and knows.
The feast gathering is when there are only "nice people" there. And all are saved and preserved only by grace.
23 to the church of the firstborn who are written in heaven. You have come to a judge who is God of all, to the spirits of the righteous who have reached perfection,
We who are the church are the firstborn, even before Israel during the 1000-year kingdom.
To God we will all be held accountable for the saved, but then it is either to get a reward or to lose\lose a reward.
Those who have died in faith have already finished the race if they have not been clothed with a new body.
24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the cleansing blood that speaks stronger than the blood of Abel.
We are not under the law as much as a tittle but under Jesus 100%.
Fortunately, we do not encounter the blood of Abel that speaks of revenge and acts of violence.
But the blood of Jesus that forgives, protects and saves.
1. Pet. 1. 18 For you know that it was not with perishable things, with silver or gold, that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish or spot. 20 He was foreordained before the foundation of the world, and for your sake he was revealed now at the end of the age.

Jesus also says that whoever believes in me will live, even if they die.

Death is the gateway to eternal life more literally.

What awaits us beyond death and the grave, Berit now knows.

This unknown, and for us in many ways complex.

Where death is our enemy, at the same time the Apostle Paul says that death is a gain.

I am sure of one thing, that Berit has finished the race.

Preserved the faith, and is secured for time and eternity.

For me now who remains, I am not where I can say that the goal has been reached!

I have obviously a lot that remains.
The first and most important thing is myself.
Here I am not at all in place.
It really feels like I have many challenges that remain.
Where I need everyone's support, intercession and love more than ever.

My children have also lost the world's best and most wonderful mother, which Berit was in my eyes

Not only that. There are 9 grandchildren who are without a grandmother.
What a loss it is also for my children and grandchildren.
I don't understand God here, that this could happen?!
The only thing I and we all can.
Is to thank God for all the wonderful and wonderful years I/we had with this wonderful, warm and wonderful person that Berit was.
She was just beautiful, warm, simple and good to deal with on all levels and fields.
Hardworking, listening, reflective and generous.
Radiated with Jesus and goodness. What did Berit have? Everything.
What was she missing? Nothing at all!

As a widower and with my family scattered, my life is the opposite of what I had imagined life would be like!

You neither plan nor take into account that you can actually die.

Dying is the only certainty in life.

That's what the scripture says.

Heb. 9:27 For it is appointed that man must die, and after that comes judgment.

When you are a husband, father, and grandfather.
Then you imagine a life with many children and grandchildren around you.
Then things happen that are not planned.
In our family, all the children choose to settle far away.
And then my wife Berit dies, and I am actually left sitting completely, completely alone here in the capital.
What should you do in such a situation?
This is so contrary to how I thought everyone would be.
But I have no other choice but to deal with being a single widower here in Oslo.
The capital has now become for me a place where I feel quite alone among myriads and countless people.
Oslo is by far Norway's largest city with 700,000 inhabitants.
Not a single one of They are fleshly relatives.
It is spread across Norway, Denmark and England.
Losing Berit was the most difficult, demanding and meaningless thing that could have happened to me.
Now she is dead, and I am standing quite alone!

God is good no matter what I experience!

Psalm 119. 68 You are good and do good; teach me your statutes!

Right now I experience that my whole life and everything has gone to pieces, crushed and is laid almost like a pile of rubble.
But still, it is not my experiences that are decisive.
That is what the word of God says.
The word of God says the following:
“You are good and do good.”
That is what is the truth.
God is good, and he does good.

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