Funeral: Sharon Day "It is Well"

Obituary

Sharon Shawley Day (March 25, 1956 - March 8, 2018)

Sharon Shawley Day, age 61 of Graceville, FL passed from this life on Thursday, March 8, 2018 at her home. She was born on March 25, 1956 in Chipley, FL to the late Dean Shawley and Estelle (Cullifer) Shawley.

Sharon is preceded in death by one sister, Brenda Land and one granddaughter, Gillian.

Survivors include,

her husband,

Frank Day of Graceville, FL,

one son,

Caden George of Graceville, FL,

three daughters,

Katie Strickland and husband Jake of Chipley, FL,

April Williams of Chipley, FL,

Summer Guettler and husband Justin of Chipley, FL,

one brother,

Jimmy Lee,

one sister,

Charlote Skipper and husband Mike of Dothan, AL,

six grandchildren,

Nathan, Karson, Athan, Davis, Collin, Levi

and her special friend Rena Pettis.

Funeral Services will be held on Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 3:00 P.M. at Brown Funeral Home with Reverend Shelly Chandler officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to Service. A Private Family Interment will be held at New Orange Baptist Cemetery following the Service.

Thoughts:

She was a fighter

She turned to the Lord not away from the Lord when life became difficult.

She came to worship when most people would stay home.

Questions:

Why did she come to church alone?

What was her relationship to her family?

When was she saved? What church?

It Is Well

The Story of the Song

How can all be well when you lose for four daughters?

How can all be well when you life falls apart?

How can all be well when you are dying of Cancer?

Because Sharon’s life was more than what is seen. There is more to life than what is seen.

There is more to life than Labor.

Ecclesiastes 1:1–8 NIV84

The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

There is more to life than the pleasure.

Ecclesiastes 2:1–3 NIV84

I thought in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless. “Laughter,” I said, “is foolish. And what does pleasure accomplish?” I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

Eccl. 2:10-11

Ecclesiastes 2:10–11 NIV84

I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

There is more to life than wisdom.

eccl. 2:12-

Ecclesiastes 2:12–16 NIV84

Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king’s successor do than what has already been done? I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness. The wise man has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both. Then I thought in my heart, “The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise?” I said in my heart, “This too is meaningless.” For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered; in days to come both will be forgotten. Like the fool, the wise man too must die!

Solomon’s Conclusion:

Ecclesiastes 2:17–18 NIV84

So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.

Eccl. 2:17-18

God’s Conclusion:

Ecclesiastes 2:24–26 NIV84

A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Eccl. 2:24-26

When peace like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say It is well, it is well, with my soul It is well With my soul It is well, it is well with my soul Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come, Let this blest assurance control, That Christ has regarded my helpless estate, And hath shed His own blood for my soul It is well (it is well) With my soul (with my soul) It is well, it is well with my soul

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, o my soul It is well (it is well) With my soul (with my soul) It is well, it is well with my soul It is well (it is well) With my soul (with my soul) It is well, it is well with my soul