Friday's Faith - Groans that Words Cannot Express...- Grieving for Another Grieving Mother

Friday's Faith

Groans that Words Cannot Express...

Grieving for Another Grieving Mother

Why is it when I hear a mother's grief,

I am rendered mute, without words, speechless,

Full of pain – like jewels beneath the reef,

Never seen in light for any to witness...

Some pain cannot be expressed in mere words;

Depths of agony, words cannot bespeak.

Th' mother's love sent, silently undergirds

The fellow-grieving-mother rendered weak.

Like a preverbal child calls out her cries

With a yearning she's not yet learned to speak,

Yet her message very adeptly flies

To the heav'ns as swiftly as on bird's beak.

Grieving mother, when you don't hear from me,

Perhaps my heart feels a deeper calling,

To intercede with groans upon my knees

For you, for our God knows when you're falling.

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In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.

We do not know what we ought to pray,

but the Spirit intercedes for us

with groans that words cannot express.

~Romans 8:26

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poem - Groans that Words Cannot Express - Angie Bennett Prince - 6/25/10