Blessed Independence Day

Thanks to all those who serve and all who have served that we may have our freedom ...


And thanks to all the moms who lost a child, dying to protect our freedom. 




~With great thanks to my readers for all you have sacrificed in loving your child, 


... may each of you have a blessed day, feeling God's loving arms around you.

~Thankful to God that we may have yet another 

Blessed Independence Day ~

Picture, thanks to grieving mother, P. Rogers

Monday's Mourning Ministry - "Freedom to Grieve" / No More Night ~David Phelps / Blessed Independence Day!

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Monday's Mourning Ministry

"Freedom to Grieve"

No More Night ~David Phelps

Blessed Independence Day!

• "Freedom To Grieve"

• Freedom - condition of being free or unrestricted
• Grief - intense sorrow

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  Does someone always have to die for others to be free?
  If that's the case, then freedom always leads to grief.
  
  
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  Does someone always have to leave their families to fight for freedom's course?
  If that 's the case, then freedom's fight always leaves their families in remorse.
  
  
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  Does someone always have to chart the course so others will know the way?
  If that's the case, then Compassionate Friends has opened freedom's gates.
  
  
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  Have others walked this path before me to wage their war with grief?
  If that's the case, then they have also fought through pain and torment, and have lost their child so sweet.
  
  
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  Is it possible for us to join together? - to fight for our freedom to grieve?
  If that's the case, then together we'll march on to try to live our lives in peace.
  
  
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  And together we'll fight the battles of grief - all parents who are sorely bereaved,
  And pay tribute to the children we have lost, for they've given us the freedom to grieve.
  
  
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  ~Written by Faye McCord,
  In loving memory of my son, Lane McCord (1/26/65 - 9/13/98)
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The American flag does not fly because the wind moves past it.

The American flag flies from the last breath of each military member

who has died protecting it. American soldiers don't fight

because they hate what's in front of them...

they fight because they love what's behind them.

~ Anonymous

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The greatest "Freedom Fighter" who fought not only for our lives,

but also for our souls, is none other than the Son of God, Jesus Christ

who laid down His life on the cross to purchase our Freedom Forever.

~Angie

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No More Night

~David Phelps

Words & music by Walt Harrah

The timeless theme, Earth and Heaven will pass away.

It’s not a dream, God will make all things new that day.

Gone is the curse from which I stumbled and fell.

Evil is banished to eternal hell.

No more night. No more pain.

No more tears. Never crying again.

And praises to the great "I AM."

We will live in the light of the risen Lamb.

See all around, now the nations bow down to sing.

The only sound is the praises to Christ, our King.

Slowly the names from the book are read.

I know the King, so there’s no need to dread.

No more night. No more pain.

No more tears. Never crying again.

And praises to the great "I AM."

We will live in the light of the risen Lamb.

See over there, there’s a mansion,

oh, that’s prepared just for me,

Where I will live with my Savior eternally.

No more night. No more pain.

No more tears. Never crying again.

And praises to the great "I AM."

We will live in the light of the risen Lamb.

All praises to the great "I AM."

We’re gonna live in the light of the risen Lamb.

Picture of Jesus, returning to earth for His own ~ Jesus Daily, Facebook

Freedom to Grieve ~ Poem thanks to Jayne Raines Newton of The Compassionate Friends, Atlanta

Anonymous quote ~ Thanks to Faye Marie Miller, Facebook