Monday's Mourning Ministry-Shine Your Mourning Light into Our Broken Temples, For It's Hard to See Heaven While Living in Hell/Never Alone~Barlow Girl

Monday's Mourning Ministry

Shine Your Mourning Light into Our Broken Temples,

For It's Hard to See Heaven While Living in Hell

/
Never Alone ~Barlow Girl

This week, we will take a look at the spiritual train-wreck most of us have experienced upon the death of our child, when everything we once firmly stood on as our very firm foundation in the Lord is brought into question at the very time our foundation needs to be the most secure and steady. The psychological community characterizes this phenomenon as "The Challenge to All of Our Assumptive Beliefs" when we have been thrown into major trauma.

So today's poem addresses some of that scrambled spiritual foundation that many of us experience. And today's song addresses that same phenomenon that even Jesus experienced in His death on the cross when He cried out, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (~Matthew 26:46, Mark 15:34, as Jesus quote the scripture from Psalm 22:1)

Silence the uproar of anguish that rages
Since Death's shroud enfolded our precious child...
Wipe away the tears from all of our faces
As our keening cries leave our spirits riled...


Temples...You built in our hearts, now broken?
Faith...You once carved, is now split asunder?
Foundations...formed, now thoroughly shaken?
Our spirits...emptied like vile Thief's plunder?
Life finds us heaped in a pile of rubble
Since Death's sheet fell with torment and trouble.


Our spirits mourn, our heart ever whimpers
Please shine Your Light into our broken temples.
If ever we need You, we need You now,
Please Lord attend us while weeping we bow.
Since into our beautiful lives, Hell fell,
It's hard to see Heaven while living in Hell.


We waste away in onslaught to our souls
As terror and dread and sorrow betray.
Though successfully climbing from Grief's holes,
We find only snares outside Grief's pits lay...
We're blown down again by Death's ruthless breath,
Drowned in Grief's floodgates, upon our child's death.


Wiped out by death, barely whisp'ring a prayer,
As a woman-with-child about to give birth
Writhes and cries out when her body won't bear ~
No greater torment is heard through the earth...
When we can't bring salvation to our child ~
Once hopeful in trust, we now feel beguiled...


Our spirits mourn, our heart ever whimpers
Shine Your Light into our broken temples.
If ever we need You, we need You now,
Please Lord attend us while weeping we bow.
Since into our beautiful lives, Hell fell,
It's hard to see Heaven while living in Hell.


Surely our God will reach out and save us ~
Lord, our souls yearn for You midst Grief's Dark Night.
You're our Safe Tower into which we can run;
Shelter our souls with Your Mourning Light.
We wait for You ~ Your name and renown, our delight.


We beg You dear God for Your Mourning Light
To soothe and comfort; please show paths through our plight.


And to my complaints, our Lord lovingly says,

"Though dead, Your child lives! Her body will rise!
They who dwell in dust, wake up, shout for joy ~
For God in His Heaven vile Death defies,
I save My children, each girl and each boy!
As Love rains like dew, earth gives birth to her dead,
Disclosing from earth, your children's blood shed,
Concealed no longer, My children rise from th' dead!"


Carry us now through Grief's sordid pain,
While trusting through tears, our child we'll regain.
We'll meet them Someday on the other Shore
Where we'll sing Your praises forevermore!


Surely our God reaches out to save us ~
Lord, our souls yearn for You midst Grief's Dark Night!
You're our Safe Tower into which we will run,
Shelter our souls with Your Mourning Light...
We wait for You ~ Your name and renown, our Delight.


Our spirits mourn, our heart ever whimpers
Shine Your Mourning Light into our broken temples.
If ever we need You, we need You now!
Please Lord attend us while weeping we bow.
Since into our beautiful lives, Hell fell,
It's hard to see Heaven while living in Hell.


Carry us now through Grief's sordid pain,
While trusting through tears, our child we'll regain...
We'll meet them Someday on the other Shore
Where together we'll sing Your praise evermore!


Thank You dear God for Your Mourning Light...
You soothe, You comfort, You show Your paths through our plight...

*****

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

~Proverbs 18:10

My poem was inspired by the very poetic writing found in Isaiah, chapters 25 and 26

On this mountain He will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; He will remove the disgrace of His people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.

~Isaiah 25:7-8

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry out by day, but You do not answer, by night, and am not silent.

~Psalm 22:1-2 (a psalm of King David)

*****


Never Alone ~Barlow Girl




"Never Alone"

~Barlow Girl


I waited for you today
But you didn't show
No no no
I needed You today
So where did You go?
You told me to call
Said You'd be there
And though I haven't seen You
Are You still there?


[Chorus:]

I cried out with no reply
And I can't feel You by my side
So I'll hold tight to what I know
You're here and I"m never alone


And though I cannot see You
And I can't explain why
Such a deep, deep reassurance
You've placed in my life


We cannot separate
'Cause You're part of me
And though You're invisible
I'll trust the unseen


[Chorus]
I cried out with no reply
And I can't feel You by my side
So I'll hold tight to what I know
You're here and I"m never alone


We cannot separate
You're part of me
And though You're invisible
I'll trust the unseen


[Chorus]
I cried out with no reply
And I can't feel You by my side
So I'll hold tight to what I know
You're here and I"m never alone

*****

The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.

~Deuteronomy 31:8

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail.

~Lamentations 3:22

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

~2 Corinthians 4:18

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

~Psalm 23:4

Poem - Shine Your Mourning Light into Our Broken Temples, for It's Hard to See Heaven While Living in Hell - Angie Bennett Prince - 9/19/10
Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdAMAbb3oUA&feature=fvw