Sweet Maura

Please keep Maura and the entire DeSouza family in your prayers. 

Maura is home now on Hospice and resting.  Sleeping, sleeping, sleeping.  Maura’s kidneys shut down last week after her tumors returned with a vengeance.  There are no more effective treatments that she can take. Any other measures taken now would just prolong her suffering.  She does not want any extraordinary measures taken.  She is at peace;  she is not afraid to die;  and she is absolutely sure that she will soon be in Heaven.

What a blessing it is to have peace in our LORD and Savior.  She is such a strong and amazing woman and is facing death with a profound confidence that I hope to have someday.  She is so lovely and when she is gone we will miss her so…but be glad that God let us share in a little part of her life.  And I know that we will all take comfort in knowing that she is out of pain.  (And we will all be a little bit jealous that she gets to sit in Heaven with God.  She will be Home.)

To her family I offer up this prayer…

O merciful Father, who hast taught us in thy holy Word that
thou dost not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men:
Look with pity upon the sorrows of thy servant for whom
our prayers are offered. Remember him, O Lord, in mercy,
nourish his soul with patience, comfort him with a sense of
thy goodness, lift up thy countenance upon him, and give
him peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.