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Quiet row of unlettered grave stones with living community beyond, equal dignity, no timetable.
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1 Thessalonians 4:15

The departed are remembered

Holiness, Grief, and Hope Together · 1 Thessalonians 4

Story guide: Those still living will not precede those who have fallen asleep. This is an interpretive visual essay, not a record of an otherwise unreported event.

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15For this we say to you by a word from the Lord: that we who are living, who remain until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.

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