A Tale that IS Stranger than Fiction!

Most people in the small rural community of Wyalusing in upstate Pennsylvania thought Jean Stevens, a 91 year old widow lived alone in her small, rundown house. True if you would only count the living bodies in the house. Recently someone tipped off state police that Jean had two dead family members still "living" with her. That's right. Jean by her own admission finds death "hard to take." So shortly after her husband was buried in the local cemetery in 1999, she had his embalmed body exhumed and placed on a couch in a detached garage. Then when her twin sister died last October, she had her body exhumed. She kept her twin sister's body in a spare room off the bedroom. Until police arrived and removed the body, Jean did her best to keep the remains of both her husband and twin sister, giving both bodies her best tender loving care. When questioned as to why she did it, she expressed her fear that after death ... there is nothing. In addition to her fear of death, Jean is extremely claustrophobic. Therefore, she could not bear the thought of her loved ones being cooped up in a coffin six feet under the ground!

As I read this article yesterday, the expression, "Truth is stranger than fiction" came to my mind. I was also saddened that this woman has no hope of heaven ... for either herself or her loved ones. If you are a follower of Jesus and therefore possess a hope of heaven and the promise of a glorious inheritance reserved for you in eternity, then take a moment and thank God that you do! For without HIS grace, you would be as this woman is - without God and without hope in this world! And then, after thanking God for your salvation, determine today with God's help, to intentionally point someone toward Jesus! For He and He alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and no one comes to the Father except by Him! (see John 14:6).

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pj