Tuesday, February 21, 2023
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Link to Memorial Service on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/nZBOh6_oT9w
Link to Cooking Videos:
http://memorablefooddishes.com/
Link to Memorial Service Photo Slideshow: https://www.screencast.com/users/DanielMoerschel/folders/Default/media/be42880d-9ddf-4ba9-aef5-2618c56aa115
Link to Memorial Service 90 second encouragement:
https://youtu.be/FEXtCE5ci3s
We grew up in a very small Christian non denominational
church. These churches were scattered across the united
states, and a few times a year, they would get together
and have a Bible conference. There we would meet other
families and get to know them.
At one of these early conferences, my parents stayed at
Debee's parent's house. That was the first time I saw
Debee, she was so cute and easy to talk to, and even at
that age I could tell how serious she was about the Lord.
My oldest brother, who went to Eastman School of Music,
would spend the weekends at Debee's cousin's house, who
lived right next store to Debee's parents. Well, as it
happened, in a couple of years, my brother married Debee's
cousin, and Debee and I stood up at their wedding. Later
that day, when Debee and I were getting in a car, the
flowers we were carrying got tangled up, and I innocently
said to Debee, "it looks like we are hitched!" Both of us
blushed and sheepishly looked away.
Debee and I had our on-again, off-again romance. While
getting to know each other, we talked about what we wanted
in the person we would marry. She told me she wanted
someone who loved and knew the scriptures, and I told her
I wanted someone who loved Jesus more than I did.
She didn't tell me then that when she was nine years old,
the Lord told her she would marry me. It seemed that God
already pre destined our lives to be together as one.
This was part of the prophetic ministry Debee was
developing throughout her life.
Six years after Debee's cousin and my brother married,
Debee and I, in 1972, got married.
Debee trusted in Jesus before she was a teenager. She
said that when she was baptized, she came out of the
water; everything was bright, sharp, and heavenly, and she
felt His peace and the love of God in and all around her.
During our many years of marriage, Debee ministered to
teenage friends of our children, women's bible study
groups. She had a way of writing just the right words to
encourage someone in the trials they were going through.
She would be the first one to tell others of the goodness
and blessing of the Holy Spirit working in their lives. I
was always amazed at how she could point out how God was
working in the situations of other people's lives. She
loved reading and sharing the scriptures with other
people. People would say of her that she lit up the room
when she entered. So many people have shared with me the
impact she had on there lives. She truly Loved the Lord
and was never embarrassed to speak the name of Jesus in a
conversation with others.
She loved to be around her 17 grandchildren. She spent so
much time with each of the children around her. She loved
teaching embroidery and cooking with them. She put
together 50+ cooking videos with recipes. She was such a
natural in front of a camera.
When we learned about Debee's leukemia 3 years ago, we
talked for a long time about what it would be like to die
and be with Jesus in heaven. We searched the scriptures
together for all the passages that gave us clues of what
it would be like to be in the presence of the Creator of
the universe and the lover of our souls.
We trusted that what the Bible said about being absent
from the body is to be present with the Lord. As we
shared our fears and regrets of dying, we were comforted
by reading and rereading the promises of being in the
presence of Jesus Christ and living eternally with Him and
our loved ones in the resurrection of our bodies Jesus
prepared for us.
We discussed how our past experiences and those memories
will be intact in our resurrected bodies. We will
recognize our loved ones who have passed before us and
interact with them as we did here on earth with hugs,
kisses, sharing, laughing, and talking to others just like
Jesus did after His resurrection.
Nothing will surpass the love that we have for Jesus
Christ. We will see the nail prints in His hands and feet
and realize Him, the Creator of all things, who, because
of His love for us, paid the penalty by His own blood to
forgive us, and redeem us to the presence of God the
Father.
My father told me when was young, he was an agnostic and
didn't care about knowing anything related to God. He was
drafted at the tail end of WW2 to interrogate German
soldiers. One day when he was in the barracks, a
Christian started to talk to him about faith in Christ and
the virgin birth of Jesus. This made my father very mad;
he couldn't and wouldn't believe that the Holy Spirit
conceived Jesus in the womb of Mary. His anger sent him
on a reading rampage to get all the insights and
understanding about the birth of Jesus. In all that
reading, something began to happen. It was as though the
Holy Spirit placed a splinter in his mind and heart that
couldn't release him until he trusted Christ.
I know that in a group this size some of you might be
where my father was, a skeptic in this whole thing of
knowing God.
It's OK to doubt the God of the Bible. Everyone at some
point in their life has doubts. So maybe at the end of
your life, you die and you experience what you might have
expected, perhaps nothingness or something else. In that
case, you didn't really lose anything.
But what if all the claims about trusting or not trusting
in Jesus are true. Wouldn't you want to cover your bases
and at least seek out the God of the Bible like my father
did to find out if He is real or not?
What will it cost you to honestly ask God to make Himself
known to you. Do you really want to play the game where
your choice to believe in God or not might determine where
you spend eternity?
Could you be honest with yourself, call out to God, and
ask Him to reveal Himself to you? Could you read the
Gospel of John all honestly asking God to make Himself
real to you?
Hey, I am here for you. We can chat about this over a cup
of coffee anytime. It would be good to spend time with
you, my friends. Debee is gone, and she is in the arms of
Jesus. I want to continue the journey and follow in the
steps of God with goodness and mercy that he has shown me
through this process.
We can get together and chat about life. I don't have a
busy schedule as God is creating in me a new man to share
with others the truth of His word. Nothing would give me
greater pleasure then to surround myself with you and
explore together the truths that have been resonating in
my heart. Debee has taught me so much about the importance
of serving and loving people where they are at. Her legacy
lives through me and my Rock is knowing that God has
started a good work in me and I want to share and learn
continually from those that God has put in my life!
Thank you my friends, I love you,
Daniel
