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By Jeremy | December 30, 2004
It's nearly midnight, 12/30, and I've just returned home from the funeral for 27-day-old Adam Jeremiah Jaruczyk (12/2/2004 - 12/29/2004). He died last night at 9:02 pm, after a valiant fight against a terminal disease. Most children with his condition don't survive their first days, never mind a first Christmas. His parents Richard and Jessica named him Adam Jeremiah -- Adam meaning "fashioned by God" and Jeremiah meaning "upheld by God" -- when their doctor told them after a seemingly routine 4 1/2 month ultrasound that there might be complications. From that day until his last, they prayed fervently that God would heal their son, and, even if He did not, that God would be glorified in little Adam's life. He was.
Pastor Michael Durso of Christ Tabernacle reminded the congregation that in God's timetable, "A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a day." While Adam's days seemed in our understanding short lived, in God's providential timing they were exactly what He needed to fulfill his eternal destiny. "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)
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