My gravestone is set, also my life verse

      I have recently made my funeral arrangements and pre-paid them. I also had a monument company prepare my gravestone. Unfortunately I was not able to use the gravesite that my father had pre-purchased several decades ago because a nearby tree had grown up so large that it blocked that plot of ground. So that gravesite had to be swapped for an open site about 50 feet south of my father's and mother's gravestones. 

      But the point of publicizing this gravestone is to highlight the Bible verse that I will take to my grave. It was the verse that I recall the old Missouri Synod Lutheran fathers used to prove that Justification was not for the few, but for all, everyone from the beginning of time until the end. It was the verse that no one could take away from me, even though I had turned away from God after having been instructed by a faithful LC-MS pastor in my youth. But when circumstances came about that caused me to retrace my path back to my upbringing, Walther and Pieper hammered home the fact that God was already reconciled to all, including me who had turned away from Him. I was translated into heaven. And I clung for dear life to a Bible verse that no one could take away from me: 

2 Corinthians 5:19

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, 

not imputing their trespasses unto them; 

and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

I am happy to now be permitted to set a reference to this verse in stone, my gravestone:

It is a simple message. May readers take it to heart, and to their grave.