Wednesday's Woe - Why Look for the Living Among the Dead?

Wednesday's Woe

Why Look for the Living Among the Dead?

I heard myself bemoaning aloud to Tommy, 

"I don't know why it is that I've been unable to visit Merry Katherine's grave for quite some time now."

Thankfully, Tommy is very aware of my grief process which includes much focus on having an ongoing relationship with my baby girl in Heaven despite her physical presence not being available to me on this earth. He knows that I keep my focus on her living spirit that is currently present with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, along with all the beloved ones who have gone on before us.

To me, my baby is still very much alive; I simply cannot see her.

Knowing all this about me, Tommy kindly looked at me and stated what should have been obvious to me…

"I guess it's because you know not to look for the living among the dead."

What an astute observer of my heart, and therefore also an understander of my resultant actions or inactions.

Though her body is still there in the grave, I know she is not there; her living spirit is now in Heaven. My focus therefore is on where she is, not on where she is not!

So, of course, why indeed would we look for the living among the dead?!

Graphic 1:

Empty On The Inside

TaLeah Anderson

~Pinterest

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/224265256418782112/

Graphic 2:

Grief and Loss

Cori-Anne Richardson

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http://www.pinterest.com/pin/173318285634718941/

Graphic 3:

~Grieving Mothers
~Facebook

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Graphic 4:

Poetry

Marla Brockman

Note: Although the graphic indicates this is a quote from ~Emily Dickinson, I am not sure that that is accurate as I have never seen it among all the poems of hers that I have read. ~Angie

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http://www.pinterest.com/pin/570760952748080352/

Monday's Mourning Ministry - Come Lift Up Your Sorrows ~Michael Card

Monday's Mourning Ministry

Come Lift Up Your Sorrows

~Michael Card

Come Lift Up Your Sorrows 

song (written, played and sung) 

by Michael Card 

and video created by Heather Gartshore

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"This wailing is what is inside all us Child-Loss parents all the time..."

~Tommy Prince

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If you are wounded

And if you're alone,

If you are angry,

If your heart is cold as stone,

If you have fallen,

And if you are weak,

Come find the Word of God

That only the suffering seek.

Come lift up your sorrows, 

And offer your pain. 

Come make a sacrifice of all your shame. 

There in your wilderness, 

He's waiting for you 

To worship Him with your wounds, 

For He's wounded too.

He has not stuttered

And He has not lied

When He said "Come unto Me,"

You're not disqualified;

When you're heavy laden,

You may want to depart

But those who know sorrow

They're closest to His heart.

Come lift up your sorrows, 

And offer your pain;

Come make a sacrifice of all your shame. 

There in your wilderness, 

He's waiting for you 

To worship Him with your wounds, 

For He's wounded too.

In this most holy place, 

He's made a sacred space

For those who will enter in

And trust to cry out to Him,

You'll find no curtain there,

No reason left for fear;

There's perfect freedom here

To weep every unwept tear.

Come lift up your sorrows, (Lift up your sorrows)

And offer your pain. (Offer your pain)

Come make a sacrifice 

Of all your shame. 

There in your wilderness, (There in your wilderness)

He's waiting for you (He's waiting for you)

To worship Him with your wounds, 

For He's wounded too.

(Come, come) Come lift up your sorrows, 

(Come bring your pain, oh yeah)

And offer your pain. (Come make a sacrifice)

Come make a sacrifice (Of all your shame)

Of all your shame. 

There in your wilderness,

He's waiting for you (He's waiting for you)

To worship Him with your wounds, 

For He's wounded too. (He's wounded too yeah)

Worship Him with your wounds, (all your wounds)

For He's wounded too.

Come worship Him with your wounds, 

For He's wounded too.

Grief Video: http://youtu.be/TciR2ITXbaY