How do you title a post "the best funeral ever"? Because it was. Flat out. I have never been to a service that was so filled with celebration and joy and complete certainty over where my friend was. Lara was a pastor's wife. I am a pastor's wife. We connected on that in many ways. There are so many amazing blessings and so many difficult trials involved with that role. And she would not have it any other way, nor would I. The whole night I sat there thinking, "Could these statements be made of me?" And what was share of Lara was not fluffly nice stuff you say at a funeral to feel better. It was a reflection of her life lived for the Lord. It was a recounting of a life that imaged her God. My conviction is... do I?

How to describe a room full of over 1500 people singing their hearts out to God, raising their hands in worship and crying tears for those left behind, but smiles about what lies ahead? Please check out the incredible service online here: http://vimeo.com/album/186792

My favorite video is the 5 min artistic edit my friend Michael Eller from Monachetti did (click next to see the 2nd video). I weep and smile at once. his edit is how I FELT leaving that night. Like the way my memories will be.

God

is

Love.

God is Love.Words and Music by Jeremy WilletFor the people of Haiti

100% of the proceeds of "God is Love." will be donated to Food for the Hungry's Haiti Relief fund. The link below will allow you to download the song on a "Pay what you want" basis or for "free" in exchange for telling 5 friends about the song. Each dollar that you pay for the song will be multiplied 20 times by a matching grant! (ie; $1 = $20).

To download the song, visit www.noisetrade.com/jeremywillet

Story behind the song:

Each song has a story.
This story is not my own, but rather a story of God's love for a nation in ruins.
My wife moved to Haiti as a full-time missionary back in November of 2009. She was living in an orphanage during the time of the Haiti earthquake in January of 2010. For 2 1/2 days while on tour in New Zealand, I waited anxiously to hear if my wife had survived the earthquake. Finally, through a string of short text messages, my family back in the states heard that Kathleen and all the children survived, and were currently sleeping in tents!

After returning to the USA, I finished a song that I started writing called "God is Love." In the true spirit of an independent artists, I recorded the song in my home studio during a blizzard, and left the recording purposely "raw" as to not disguise the emotion behind the song.

Many of the Haitians following the earthquake said it was as if, "Hell came up". Our response to their situation will determine whether or not they feel "Heaven came down".

Lyrics:

Famines and droughts, war and diseases, and earthquakes. They cause orphans and widows, hunger and thirst, and hopelessness 

But by His mouth, God has promised 
By His hands, He has fulfilled 

Whatever disaster will try to destroy

Whatever disease may come

God is love, God is love 

Hell came up, and shook the earth

But Heaven came down, and changed the world 

Shaken but alive, struck down but not destroyed God is love, God is love