Yikes! That was the subject line for an e-mail that I received earlier this week. Of course, that got my curiosity right away, so I quickly read the e-mail from a friend. She relayed that she had been reading the death notices in the Milwaukee Sunday paper and saw my name! Reading further she realized it was not me, but a woman with the same name.
Well, we receive the same paper, so I looked and sure enough, there was my name. Something else struck me, and that was I had met this woman’s mother at a luncheon in October. I had commented on her last name being the same as mine (no relation) and she shared that she had a daughter with the very same  name as mine.  She went on to tell me that her daughter lived in Portland, Oregon,  (I had been there a few times over the last several years relating to our 2009 convention) and that her daughter was fighting cancer. That battle ended on November 20, 2009. My sincere condolences to the family and friends.
There was something about seeing my name in the death notices in a newspaper that brought home the reality that someday my name will be there. Thanks be to God that my eternal home is being prepared even now. Death will be the door to my heavenly home.

For now, God still has things for me to do as His dearly loved daughter. So, I must be about my Father’s business. How about you?