Gratitude...Even After a Funeral

I have a dear friend whose teenage daughter died last week. I just happened across his facebook page today and was amazed by what I found. I fully expected to find the barrage of condolences and reassurances offered by loved ones. But I did not expect to find that my friend had personally replied to each and every one of those comments posted on his wall, thanking those individuals for their love, support, and prayers.

I was amazed.

At a time of complete and utter sorrow for his family, my friend continued to look outward and be grateful to others. He thanked them for their service instead of wallowing in his grief-he found a way to lift others, like he always does, instead of insisting that someone lifts him.

I feel that's that's the measure of a man.

1 Corinthians 13:11 KJV "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."