Monday's Mourning Ministry / Tuesday's Trust - Eternal Love... / Victory ~Yolanda Adams

Thanks to ~Hers To Treasure and ~Fine Art America 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.

~Proverbs 3:5-6 (New International Version, 2011)

~~~~~

Jesus said to her, 

"I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if s/he dies, will live."

~John 11:25 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

(some capitalizations and gender corrections, mine)

~thanks to Molly Severns - "Colors" on pinterest 

I miss my lively, free-spirited baby girl. I am so thankful she is still "with" me in spirit, and that she is alive and watches over me from Heaven. Jesus Himself said, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if (s/he) dies, will live." (John 11:25 ~Holman Christian Standard Bible, 2009) Thank You Lord, for Your great love for us ♥ that You made provision for our love for one another to be eternal!

~Angie

Monday's Mourning Ministry / Tuesday's Trust

Eternal Love...

Victory

~Yolanda Adams

Victory

~Yolanda Adams

I've got, got the victory

I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus, yes I do

He is a mighty conqueror

In Him I will trust,

all my battles He'll fight

I've got, got the victory

I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus

For me He died but He rose on the third day

That's why I have true victory everyday

Truly, I've been through the storm and rain

I know everything about heartache and pain

But God carried me through it all

Without His protection, I would surely fall

I've been broke without a dime to my name

But all my bills got paid 'cause I called on Jesus name

You can't tell me that God isn't real

'Cause I've got the victory and that's why I'm still here

I've got, got the victory

I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus, yes I do

He is a mighty conqueror

In Him I will trust, all my battles He'll fight

I've got, got the victory

I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus

For me He died but He rose on the third day

That's why I have true victory everyday

I'm not worried about material things I don't have

[Incomprehensible] my Saviors care

'Cause I know that my blessing is on the way

I can't see it right now, but I stand by faith

I've fought many, many battles in His name

I've held up the blood-stained banner and proclaimed

That Jesus is the truth and the light

Believe me when I say He will make it right

I've got, got the victory

I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus, yes I do

He is a mighty conqueror

In Him I will trust, all my battles He'll fight

I've got, got the victory

I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus

For me He died but He rose on the third day

That's why I have true victory everyday

Yeah, I got the victory, yeah

I got the victory yeah, yeah, yeah

And if you have the victory sing along with me

Yeah, I got the victory, yeah

I got the victory yeah, yeah, yeah

Sing it with me, I've got the victory

I've got, got the victory

I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus, yes I do

He is a mighty conqueror

In Him I will trust, all my battles He'll fight

I've got, got the victory

I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus

For me He died but He rose on the third day

That's why I have true victory everyday

Oh yeah, I got the victory, yeah

I got the victory yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah

I got the victory, yeah

I got the victory yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes

Sing along with me

I've got, got the victory

I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus, yes I do

He is a mighty conqueror

In Him I will trust, all my battles He'll fight

I've got, got the victory

I've got the sweet, sweet victory in Jesus

For me He died but He rose on the third day

That's why I have true victory everyday

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Wednesday's Woe - Stop Stressing over my Post-Traumatic Stress!

Wednesday's Woe

Stop Stressing over my Post-Traumatic Stress!

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is just WHAT IS after severe trauma.

The "experts" need to STOP calling PTSD a "disorder" when child-loss parents become overwhelmed from the horrendous loss of their precious child.

PTSD just IS what happens when anyone has been severely, overwhelmingly traumatized.

The abnormal trauma of DEATH OF A CHILD coming at us child-loss parents IS the disorder--NOT how our poor minds, bodies, spirits, hearts, etc. are reeling from the horrific trauma that killed our children.

The experts need to consider—

We WOULD BE "DISORDERED" IF WE WEREN'T REELING FROM THE TRAUMA OVER LOSING OUR CHILD~

PTSD just describes what many of us grieving parents are going through should any objective observer be watching. So the labeling of the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can be very helpful, put please dear "experts," do not call it a FAILURE of our grief, NOR of our CHARACTERS BEING FLAWED; we are simply overwhelmed by the death of our precious child!

This unfair, actually cruel, false-labeling of a grieving parent reminds me of what was being perpetrated by the so-called experts of the '70's when they BLAMED SCHIZOPHRENIA on the victim's MOTHER—labeling this poor woman, whoever she might be, as being a "SCHIZOPHRENOGENIC" mother (Yes, they gave a title to the poor mother), blaming HER for the schizophrenia of her child, saying it must have been caused by the WAY SHE RAISED HER CHILD! Since schizophrenia doesn't typically hit till late teens or early 20's, these crazy "experts" could "appear" to know what they were talking about due to the disease's timing for exhibiting its symptoms. Now, scientists have clear-cut neurophysiological evidence that schizophrenia is a bonafide physiological brain disorder from the hard evidence of the schizophrenic person's brain scans, thus NO LONGER BLAMING THE MOTHER'S MOTHERING SKILLS...

Hopefully, with current availability of P.E.T. scans, experts of today will see the clear neurophysiological evidence of the brain trauma in victims of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and

STOP BLAMING US VICTIMS FOR "CHARACTER FLAWS" OR FOR "FAILURE TO GRIEVE PROPERLY"!

We carry around inside of us an indescribable wailing all the time...and yes, it may very well leave physiological scarring on our brains. I wouldn't be surprised.

Do you have any scans for hearts, souls, and spirits? I dare say our unbearable pain is leaving scars there too.

Most of us are amazed that we're still alive at all. Period.

Tuesday's Trust - Unseen Amidst Death’s War Waged Against Us?

Tuesday's Trust

Unseen Amidst Death’s War Waged Against Us?

I'm finding that loss-of-child grieving,

in terms of isolation, is like being

shunned aside into th' lepers colony;

contagion-fear renders (a) motley posse.

It seems civilians outside of Death's war

don't have the tempered-heart it takes to fight

th' Evil One daily raging at our door

seeking to take advantage of Death's plight.

The child we lovingly nurtured daily,

he's successfully ravaged from our side.

Us, he e'er ravages with his railing,

renders weak t' weeping as he sets his stride.

Safely out of sight of battles raging

in our heart and soul, and spirit and mind,

once-loving fam'ly, blinded, now waging

we're surely done with this war-of-th'-worst-kind!

Th' surreptitious Enemy takes delight...

th' fam'ly who once nurtured can't see our plight;

we e'er know he has us in his cross-hairs,

but forget (at) ALL our loving bonds, he tears.

Perhaps he forgets Prince-of-Peace stands near,

With loving arms He holds, douses each fear,

Nurtures the heart that weeps each loving tear,

Gently binds each wound Satan seeks to sear,

Douses the spouting Fowler's raging fire,

Comes alongside each weeping warrior

By comfort, peace, and resurrection pow'r,

Transforms each into th' Thwarter's conqueror!

Our Savior dies t' topple the Spoiler's tow'r,

Destroys Death, hurling it into the fire,

And burns th' Fowler in Hell's eternal pyre.

All hail Christ amidst Heav'n's Holy Bonfire!

And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. ~Revelation 20:10

Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. ~Revelation 20:14

Poem - Unseen Amidst Death's War Waged Against Us? - Angie Bennett Prince - 1/12/2010