Anna Bernice Brown (2 yr old) - Funeral
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Funeral for Anna Brown
Funeral for Anna Brown
I want to thank everyone for coming out today to show their respect and love for this family.
Little Anna has impacted many lives, and if you were privileged to have had the opportunity to meet Anna, then you have been greatly blessed.
Anna was always so cheerful and happy, no matter what she was going through her smile would light up a room.
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Anna Bernice Brown, age 2, daughter of Joseph Brown & Jamiee Doyle, passed away Monday afternoon, April 15, 2024, at Augusta University Medical Center, with family by her side.
Anna loved to ride in her pink car. She was playful and always smiling. One of her favorite activities was to have her hair done, and redone. Anna loved her cartoons and playing “Ring Around the Rosie”.
Those who will cherish her memory include her parents, Joseph Brown & Jamiee Doyle and her sisters and brother, Payton Brown, Aubrey Brown and Konner Doyle; grandparents, Darlene Lariscy, Sandra & Bernard Brown, Douglas & Kaytie Doyle, and Melinda & Marion “June Bug” Doyle, Jr.; and her great-grandparents, Bea & Marion Doyle, Sr., and Dorothy Jones.
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I consider myself blessed because I was able to meet and know little Anna.
She always had a smile on her face when I seen her, and that smile was enough to brighten the worse of days.
When I think of little Anna, i think of Hebrews 13:2
2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.
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Little Anna, I am sure was like other kids and had bad days, times that she was not smiling, but I never seen it.
But as I have thought of Anna the last few days preparing for today, that verse just kept coming back to me.
We wonder why things happen like they do, and we are not always given an answer.
But even though we are not told specifically I believe that children that are so young when they leave this life are taken to Jesus.
Let me share some Scripture that will hopefully comfort you and also explain why I believe this.
The first set of Scripture is one of Jesus’ interaction with children.
13 Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.
14 But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
15 After laying His hands on them, He departed from there.
Children are a blessing from God, and Jesus loved children.
It was an old Jewish custom to bring children to important people for their blessings.
Therefore the children that were coming to Jesus here were being sent by the parents to receive blessings.
These children were to young to have exercised personal saving faith.
In the parallel account of Luke 18:15 we see that these were very young children.
15 And they were bringing even their babies to Him so that He would touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they began rebuking them.
Luke says that the parents were bringing their babies.
Therefore, we know that these were very young children.
God shows a special mercy to those who because of age are incapable of either faith or willful unbelief.
Jesus’ words in Matthew there suggest that God’s mercy is graciously extended to infants, young children so that those who pass away are sovereignly regenerated and granted entrance into the kingdom.
A set of Scriptures from the Old Testament, dealing with King David when he had an affair with Bathsheba and then had her husband killed.
Bathsheba had conceived a child during the affair, the little boy was born but dies because of the sin of David.
Now the loss of a child is not always due to sin in the family.
The part of the story that I want you to see is that David fasted and wept for his son, the whole time the baby was sick and a live.
The moment the David finds out that the baby died, he eats and stops his mourning.
21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”
22 He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows, the Lord may be gracious to me, that the child may live.’
23 “But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
David is saying here that one day, he also will die and when he does because of his relationship with the Lord, he would see his son again.
Verse 23 gives us confidence that if we have a relationship with Jesus Christ that we too can one day see Little Anna again.
Charles Spurgeon said, “I rejoice to know that the souls of all infants, as soon as they die, speed their way to Paradise.”
Paradise being Heaven.
We are told in Ecclesiastes 3:1-4
1 There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—
2 A time to give birth and a time to die;
A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.
3 A time to kill and a time to heal;
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
4 A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn and a time to dance.
A person can experience the extremes of life - the highest joy and the deepest sorrow - in the same week, even in the same day.
I believe and stand on the promise of 2 Corinthians 5:8
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
The moment little Anna passed away, she took her last breath here on earth and the very next moment she took her first breath in eternity with Jesus Christ.
You can stand on that promise also and see little Anna again if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Jesus said in John 14:1-5
1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
3 “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
4 “And you know the way where I am going.”
Jesus is making a promise that if we have a personal relationship with Him, that He is preparing us a place in His Father’s which is God the Father’s house.
God’s house is heaven and if you have received Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior than you can one day be in heaven with Jesus and see little Anna again.
The Scripture continues with doubting Thomas asking a question and Jesus giving the answer.
5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
Thomas states we that being the twelve disciples that had spent so much time with him, did not know where Jesus was going.
Jesus said, that He is the way, that is the way to get to heaven, the way to have eternal life, the way to have forgiveness of sins and salvation.
Jesus also states, He is also the truth, that is all truth is found in Jesus Christ.
Jesus also states that He is the life, only true life, is found in Jesus Christ.
Without Jesus life has no meaning, no purpose and does not have true happiness, or peace.
Deion Sanders knew all about success.
He had won two Super Bowls and appeared in a World Series. He’d become a father, made a lot of money, even released an album.
Yet in 1997 at the prime of it all, he drove his car off a cliff, ready to die.
Sanders, like many people, was at a point in his life where he was trying to find satisfaction in all the things in the world. It turned up empty.
“It was something that I had to fix and I couldn't fix it. I tried to pay it off, it wouldn't go away. I tried to sex it up, it wouldn't go away.
I tried to do various things to see if it would go away. (I would) wake up and I still feel the same.
Sanders recalls, “I remember winning the Super Bowl that year, and that night after the game I was the first one out of the locker room, the first one to the press conference, and the first one to go home.
And I remember my wife, Carolyn, saying to me, “Baby, you just won the Super Bowl! Don’t you have a party downstairs or something to go to?”
And I just said, “Nah,” and rolled over and went to sleep.
That was the same week I bought myself a brand new $275,000 Lamborghini, and I haven’t even driven a mile before I realized, “No, that’s not it.
That’s not what I’m looking for. It’s got to be something else, I’m so hungry.”
I tried everything.
Parties, women, buying expensive jewelry and gadgets, and nothing helped.
There was no peace. I mean I was playing great.
I got all this media attention and everything the world has to offer, but no peace, no joy, just emptiness inside.
Sanders recounted the suicide attempt.
Amazingly, he survived what he said was a 30- to 40-foot drop without any significant injuries.
He decided his life was worth living.
“I finally just got on my knees and gave it all to the Lord,” Sanders said.
I share this because so many times we feel like life is not worth living after a lose of a loved one.
What we need to see and understand is that Jesus is here for us to turn too.
Being a Christian does not mean life will be easy or that everything will go smoothly, we live in a very evil world.
But no matter what we face in this life, when we have Jesus in our lives we can face it knowing He is on our side.
He will help us through the darkest of times.
Jesus will give us peace and joy, but also the strength to get through times like this.
If you have not received Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, today is the day of salvation.
With salvation in Jesus Christ you can trust, believe and know that you will one day see little Anna again.
We are told in Romans 10:9-10
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
If you need salvation please let me talk and pray with you before you leave today.
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