I want to share a song with you. I experienced this – it was more than just hearing it- when I visited my daughter’s church. The singer-songwriter, Brian Lopiccolo, is the music director at her church. His brother had died just a few months before that visit. So Brian wrote these thoughts in his own grief. I talked with him after listening as he sang this song for the first time publically. He said he wanted to do something that glorified God since his brother’s death. In my heart, Brian accomplished his goal. May your heart be touched and comforted with this too.
When Death is Swallowed in Victory – Brian Lopiccolo
“When Death is swallowed in victory,
We’ll stand in awe at the ending
Of all our brokenness, grief and pain
When Christ returns to redeem us.
And though we die, then shall we live,
for Christ defeated the grave;
When death is swallowed in victory
It’s only then the beginning.
When Death is swallowed in victory
This fallen body will waken
These tried limbs and this broken heart
Will rise to life and perfection.
These hands will build, these feet will run
This voice will sing a new song;
These eyes will look on the risen Lord
When Death is swallowed in vict’ry
Inherit everything,
When death gives up it’s sting
And nothing can keep us from
the life we’ve been destined to live
Oh –the life we’ve been destined to give.
When Death is swallowed in victory
God’s children, all then united
The Saints of hist’ry and those now gone
Will join us then and forever.
And God Himself will be our own,
For we forever are His;
We long for Christ to make all things new
When Death is swallowed in vict’ry.”
What are your favorite lines? Mine are the last 4 – And God Himself will be our own for we forever are His. I am comforted knowing I’m close to His heart and safe there forever.
Blessings to you as you contemplate Christ’s victory over the grave and what that means to you now.
Check out Brian Lopiccolo’s site.
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Judy is the Director of H*VMI's BASIS ministry. She says, "I have been working in the arena of loss and grief for over 30 years, with parents who have lost a child. My most important teachers have been the parents with whom I have been privileged to work in BASIS, a Christian ministry for bereaved parents. I have certainly taken courses, certificates and seminars. I have even taught a few. But, truthfully, the most important lessons have been in listening to parents, then taking their hurts and concerns to the throne of grace in prayer and listening to the still small voice of God through His Word and His people. I am not a bereaved parent, thankfully. And yet, I have observed and learned some things that are the truth about grief and about where true comfort comes from. I want to share some of these truths with you."
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