Welcome family, friends, and strangers. We, the kids, have created a place to honor our dad and connect with you while we move through
unfamiliar, ever changing, hard life stuff–losing someone you loved with all your heart. So, this is a place to cry, go ahead and laugh, be angry for a time, we are praying for healing, for comfort, and for peace!
My Dad was such an inspiration with his faith and his love of God's word.
I felt most at peace, during this painful time of greving, whin I would open his big, soft bible, and read what he had underlinded. So, for me, and for you, I have compiled some fo the tings that he had underlined. Starting, of course, in the book of Psalm, for David was a man who understood grief.
May God hold you with His strong arms and remind you of His mercy and grace.
Psalm 89:1
I will sing for the mercies of the Lord forever; with my mouth will I make known Your Faithfulness to all generations. :5 And the heavens will praise Your wonders, O Lord; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the saints. :13 You have a mighty arm; Strong is Your hand, and high is Your right hand. :15 Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance. (and dad put "Me" nex to this passge) :18 For our shield belongs to the Lord, And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 95:7
For He is our God, And we are the People of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand.
Psalm 96:3
Declare His glory among the nations
Psalm 100:3
Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. :5 For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting And His truth endures to all generations. (dad wrote, "sing out the Lord is near")
:10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, (dad wrote, "praise God!")
Psalm 116
I Love the Lord, because He has heard My voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live. The pains fo death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow. Then I called upon the name of the Lord: "O Lord, I implore You, deliver my soul!" Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful. The Lord has dealt bountifully with you. For you have delivered my soul from death My eyes from tears, And my feet from faling. I will walk before the Lord in the Land of the living.
We are so thankful for our friends and our family! Thank you for your Love and your kindness. We are slso thankful to God for His comfort. My dad has entered into the Loving arms of God our Father, May God bring peace to your heart.
In Loving Memory of Bruce Durkin, my totally awesome, really fun, best ever dad
xoxo
Amy
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