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    Edge of Eternity: Is Death Really the End of It All?
    Edge of Eternity: Is Death Really the End of It All?
    Edge of Eternity: Is Death Really the End of It All?
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    Edge of Eternity: Is Death Really the End of It All?

    By Valencia McMahon

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    Imagine Being Pulled Into a dark and deep web full of pain and grief. Death is seemingly all around you. Imagine having a constant unshakable feeling that you would soon be next. After experiencing devastating losses of the people I loved the most, I had come face to face with one of life’s crossroads. Now, at a turning point after a series of crises, I found myself questioning my faith and asking myself if there was a God. Engaged in a battle against the enemy of humanity, I had to decide if the faith I once proclaimed to have was faith or was I merely proclaiming faith because of what my eyes were able to see and my mind understands. So I put God on trial, to see if He, the omnipotent one, would vindicate Himself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateFeb 10, 2022
    ISBN9781664250185
    Edge of Eternity: Is Death Really the End of It All?
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    Valencia McMahon

    I was always the shyest of my mother’s three daughters, yet somehow, I’ve overcome most of that shyness during the last 11 years. God has been better than good to me because he blessed me with Cash McMahon, an exceptional person who shared 10 ½ of those previous 11 years with me. He grew to become my best friend, my confidant, and my husband. It was his love, his constant encouragement, and his quiet strength that caused me to try things I had not done before. He was that light in my life that God lovingly placed there. So, although I have lost four of the most important people in my life, (both sisters, my mother and my husband), I still have God on my side and in my heart. It is He who sustains me daily. And though my words can never convey the loss that I feel, nor the hope that burns within my heart, God has given me the words within this book to share with others to help ease their pain.

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      Edge of Eternity - Valencia McMahon

      EDGE OF ETERNITY

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      IS DEATH REALLY THE END OF IT ALL?

      VALENCIA MCMAHON

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      Copyright © 2022 Valencia McMahon.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.

      WestBow Press

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      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      Unless otherwise indicated, all scripture used is taken from the Holy Bible, King James Version (KJV). Public domain.

      Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV. Text Edition: 2016. Copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      Scripture quotations marked (NKJV) are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      ISBN: 978-1-6642-5019-2 (sc)

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      ISBN: 978-1-6642-5018-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2021923388

      WestBow Press rev. date: 2/7/2022

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Faith When All Else Fails

      The Pytrisha Haddly Story

      God Can Fix It

      Homecoming

      God’s Gone and Done It

      I’ll See You Again

      A Mind At Rest

      Silence Is Not Golden

      The Linda Golden Story

      A Smile at Midnight

      Oh No, He Didn’t

      Elijah Moment

      Weighing in the Balance

      Think on These Words

      A Sister’s Cry

      Found Innocent

      I Can See Clearly

      Are You Sure There Is a God?

      The Mattie Kemp Story

      A Mother’s Love

      It’s Mom’s Turn Now

      One Last Effort

      Fighting for Faith Again

      What Was Easy

      If There Is a God, Where Did He Go?

      The Cash McMahon Story

      The Grip of Death

      Miracle or Madness

      Heaven or Hell

      Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

      Match Made in Heaven

      Trial by Fire

      Burned But Not Consumed

      Safe in His Arms

      Valencia’s Testimony

      Defining Moment

      Trials of Love

      Good from Bad

      One on One

      Blessed Assurance

      Beyond the Grave

      Our New Home

      The Revelation

      Scriptures for Comfort

      Messages of Hope

      Death is not the end for those who die in Jesus Christ. His promised return and the resurrection of the righteous will be realized at the appointed time.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I was inspired to write this book when I realized just how much God loves me. After a night of despair when I lost my husband, clarity came in the morning. I had the opportunity to look back and see how God had allowed me to marry the man I said I would marry exactly ten years earlier. During my time of grief, I allowed myself to fall into the loving embrace of God’s arms. It was He who sustained me during my losses.

      I am grateful to have had the encouragement of my late husband’s friends Alan S. Maltz, Erika King, William Fiore, and Marsha Jouben. I can see why they were special to him.

      I’m also grateful to Javine Owens and Marilyn Oates, for encouraging me over this past year along with the rest of my friends and family who always provided valuable feedback when asked. Each of you helped make this book special.

      DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to my mother, who taught me about the love of God since I was a child. To my sisters who thought the world of me, and to my loving husband who was always there for me with his beautiful smile and quiet strength. I thank God for their love

      This book is also dedicated to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Though much was taken from me, I know that so much more was given to me by the one who loves me the most.

      Thank You, Jesus, for Your everlasting love.

      INTRODUCTION

      And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things have passed away. After the fulfillment of the coming of the Messiah, His death, and His resurrection, no other Bible verse seems to compel the longing of the human heart as this one verse in Revelation 21:4 does. That glorious day is coming when we will no longer have to carry the burden of grief from losing our loved ones.

      Grief is the one human emotion that all humanity will experience, whether from losing someone or something. It has made its way through the halls of history, and its presence is still here today in the year 2021. Imagine that thousands and thousands of years have gone by, and it is still hanging around. Many people have asked why. I would like to present to you another question: Why not? Grief is still around today because humanity is still around today.

      The only place that suffering will no longer exist is in the new heaven and the new Earth God has promised to His people—that glorious place we read about in Revelation chapter 21. Imagine living in a place so beautiful, a place like nothing you have ever seen or experienced before. Imagine the Creator of the universe is there with us. If you can imagine it and believe in Him, the one who promised that to us will soon turn grief into joy.

      Nothing can be more painful than the loss of a loved one. Equally so, nothing can be more life-changing than the loss of a loved one. I’ve experienced the loss of loved ones back-to-back on multiple occasions, and honestly, I’ve asked why many times. The question of why drove me to search for an answer. In my search, I found myself getting closer and closer to my Creator. So close until I started asking myself the question, Why not? Didn’t God tell us that the wages of sin are death? And since all have sinned (Romans 3:23), then death is an unwelcome visitor that comes to us all. With the full knowledge that death is inevitable, then there must be a way for the human race to cope. Grief may be hard to picture as a gift because it’s an emotion that none of us wants to have, yet it is a way to show the heights and depths of the love and appreciation we had for the ones we’ve lost. There is no doubt it will change you. But we get to decide whether that change will be for the better or it will make us bitter.

      In every situation, we need to remember that God has assured us in His word that He will never leave us nor forsake us. As the psalmist said in Psalm 23:4, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me. Why is He with us? Because Psalm 23:1 says, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. The Lord is with us because He is our shepherd and our comforter. What does a good shepherd do? He guides his flock. He makes them lie down in green pastures. He leads them beside the still waters. He restores their souls. He leads them in paths of righteousness. And that is why the psalmist wrote in Psalm 30:5, Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. And when that joy comes, ‘I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever" (Psalm 23:6).

      As I journeyed through my losses, I found myself on an emotional roller-coaster ride that had me ready to give up on who and what I believed. It took the intervention of a loving God, who is still revealing Himself to me, to get me where I am today. It is that intervention that has me counting my blessings despite the losses. One of my favorite hymns by Thomas Shepherd asks the question, Must Jesus bear the cross alone and all the world go free? Then he answers, No, there’s a cross for everyone, and there’s a cross for me!

      When heaped upon our weak, mortal bodies, the cross of grief is a load often too heavy to bear. But Jesus, who has gone down that road, is more than able to not only carry the load but take us through the grief. My grace is sufficient for thee, He says in 2 Corinthians 12:9, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

      We must hold fast to the hope and that blessed assurance that joy will indeed come in the morning. Joy will come, and we will once again enjoy the presence of our loved ones in our immortal bodies that Jesus Christ, the righteous, will give to all those who put their trust in Him. What a day of rejoicing that will be.

      Unwillingly traveling down this lonely road called grief, I

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