Chaplain Chat

Growing up my family would often drive to Mandurah to stay with Gran & Poppa. Most long weekends and school holidays were spent staying with them and walking down to their local beach in Falcon or driving from their house to Pyramids for a surf, the Cut for Crabs, or White Hills for a 4WD and a fish. Poppa had a row boat and we would row out from “his beach” to pull up cray pots and fish with homemade hand lines for sand whiting. The whiting were tiny so we had to get a good amount to feed us all. Poppa, my dad, and I would sit together filleting our catch. I have such fond memories of the time I spent with my Poppa. My Poppa recently passed away and on the 14th of March 2023, I attended his funeral. He was a good man. A servant hearted man and a man of Faith. As I reflect on his life, I am truly grateful for the time I had with him but am also glad that he has now passed away. He has been in physical pain for a long time now and I am confident that he is now in a better place.

1 Corinthians 15:55 (KJV); O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

The good news that we celebrate at Easter is that Jesus died so that we can spend eternity with Him. He loves me and loves you and wants a relationship with us. We can have that relationship now and that relationship will continue once we die, or we can reject the free gift of salvation and spend an eternity without Him.

My prayer is that all would come to know Jesus and love Him, like my Poppa did.