{"id":1199,"date":"2020-03-20T20:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T01:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2020-04-13T20:27:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T01:27:25","slug":"lavour-miles-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"Lavour Miles Vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rv 14:13; Jn 12: 23-28<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Deacon Larry Brockman<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTheir works accompany them.\u201d&nbsp; If ever there was a man whose works will accompany him, it was Lavour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lavour\u2019s life was full of challenges- and he met them all with gusto.&nbsp; A convert- Lavour chose his faith very carefully and lived it to the fullest.&nbsp; A Veteran; a hard and dedicated worker who survived Asbestos exposure and fallout from A bombs;&nbsp; a man who lived his Christian marriage for 65 years, including raising two wonderful daughters who are holding firm to the faith; and a man who suffered greatly from a fall earlier, and now his final bout with Cancer.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite all of that, Lavour was a person who gave back over and over again.&nbsp; Lavour was the head of the Respect Life Ministry at Holy Family for many years.&nbsp; That\u2019s where my wife Jane and I met Shirley and Lavour.&nbsp; And in the last decade, despite failing health,&nbsp; Lavour and Shirley continued to thirst for growth spiritually at a time in life when most folks are content to just relax.&nbsp; I was honored that they attended so many of the Bible Studies I conducted.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Truly, Lavour has found rest from his labors now, and no one can take that from him.&nbsp; As Jesus implied in the Gospel, those who follow Him faithfully as Lavour did, will be glorified as Jesus was glorified.&nbsp; For Lavour found the purpose for which he came into the world.&nbsp; It was his Christian witness, and it was all of you- he was a dedicated Christian man who loved his family and gave them sterling Christian witness right up until the end. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shirley, I especially feel the pain of your loss, because I suffered the loss of my soulmate as well.&nbsp; But it is only a temporary separation for all of us.&nbsp; Some day, and it is soon in the perspective of eternity, all of us will be reunited with Lavour,&nbsp; where all of us who serve the Father will be honored.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rv 14:13; Jn 12: 23-28 Deacon Larry Brockman \u201cTheir works accompany them.\u201d&nbsp; If ever there was a man whose works will accompany him, it was Lavour. Lavour\u2019s life was full of challenges- and he met them all with gusto.&nbsp; A convert- Lavour chose his faith very carefully and lived it to the fullest.&nbsp; A Veteran; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[514],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}