Showing posts with label Grief Across Time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grief Across Time. Show all posts

Friday, June 22, 2012

Saturday's Sayings ~ You Don't Get Over It ~ You Just Get Through It






Saturday's Sayings

You Don't Get Over It
~ You Just Get Through It




You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.


~Henry Drummond

~via Karren's Quote Kollection


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~♥~ 'A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.' ~♥~


~Widely attributed to Walter Wincher

~via Karren's Quote Kollection



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“You don’t get over it, you just get through it...

You don’t get by it, because you can’t get around it...

It does not get better, It just gets different...

Everyday grief puts on a new face.”


~ Author Unknown ~

~via Karren's Quote Collection



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~♥~ 'If every tear I shed represented a thought of you. I would be drowning.' ~♥~


~Kazoo

~via Karren's Quote Kollection



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Grief is a tidal wave that overtakes you,

Smashes down upon you with unimaginable force,

Sweeps you up into its darkness,

Where you tumble and crash against unidentifiable surfaces,

Only to be thrown out on an unknown beach, bruised, reshaped...

Grief will make a new person out of you,

If it doesn't kill you in the making...


~Author Unknown~

~via Karren's Quote Kollection



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This bears repeating…


~ "Do not judge the bereaved mother. She comes in many forms. She is breathing, but she is dying. She may look young, but inside she has become ancient. She smiles, but her heart sobs. She walks, she talks, she cooks, she cleans, she works, she IS but she IS NOT, all at once. She is here, but part of her is elsewhere for eternity." ~


~Author Unknown

~via Karren's Quote Kollection



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~ "Grief changes shape. But it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone and I'm better.' They're wrong!" ~


~Actor Keanu Reeves whose daughter was born still.

~ c/o TCF ~

~via Karren's Quote Kollection



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~♥~ I never knew how much love my heart could hold until someone called me 'Mommy.' ~♥~


~Author Unknown

~via Karren's Quote Kollection


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~♥~ "Cleanse yourself with laughter and with tears. Let tears take out all the agony that is hidden inside you, and let laughter ignite your contagious joy. Many people don't realize the great curing effects of good laugh and a good cry.


"Crying is a great way to (relieve) emotional pain in your life. A lot of us save crying for extremely emotionally sensitive times, such as when (a) close loved one dies, or during a bad break-up. During times like these every tear that falls down our face is an ounce of pain leaving the body. Crying is one of the greatest coping mechanisms that we have as a human beings.


"It is important to drain our sorrows out with tears and re-ignite the flame of joy in your / our life by laughing as much as possible during the most trying times." ~♥~


~ Unknown ~

~via Karren's Quote Collection


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Remember the life and love that touched you, enriched you, blessed you, and changed you for all eternity. This life is so much bigger than the death. If you are struggling with images of a painful, prolonged, or traumatic and sudden end, keep turning your attention to the life that made your life brighter and sweeter. Life and love are always bigger than death.


~Grieving Mothers









Pictures, thanks to The Compassionate Friends, Remembering Homicide Victims, Grieving Mothers, and Karren's Quote Collection

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Monday's Mourning Ministry - A Letter to and from My Baby Girl Her Fifth Year in Heaven... / God Be With You ~Selah





Monday's Mourning Ministry



A Letter to and from My Baby Girl

Her Fifth Year in Heaven...


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God Be With You


~Selah







A Letter to and from My Baby Girl

Her Fifth Year in Heaven...





Good morning, Baby Girl,

I wanted to write and say

5 yrs now since you've been away,

Mommy's been thrown into a whirl

Trying to survive each day

With a heart dead to this world...


And yet I live in peace

Knowing where you are...

God meets me in my grief

And despite you've gone afar,

I sense you here beside me

Pure in spirit and sweet ~

It's God's gift to me,

A dear and special treat.


His time-zone is instant

In spirit-world, tis true,

So though you're very distant,

You reach me when I'm blue:

When I feel my heart crushing

Till I can bear no more,

That's when He sends you rushing

To remind me what's in store...


"Mommy, I'm so happy

Your prayers for me came true~

So now I'm truly laughing

Amazed at what God can do!

Remember all you told me:

When you're sad, keep looking up!


"If on earth your cup is empty,

In Heaven, He'll fill your cup!

Take your eyes off your burden

Give it, instead, to Him;

When death pulls the curtain

Your life starts over with Him!

And with any tears you shed there,

He'll water your gardens Here;

And for any burdens you bear there,

He'll draw you even closer Here!"




Thank You Lord for my child's sweet communion,

Thank You her name is graven on Your hands,

Thank You her name is seared onto Your heart,

All the love for her my own heart commands

Could never for her, true Life impart.

Thank You for suffering Your own Child's death,

That He willingly gave up His own life's breath

That we'll have Life with You, and Love's sweet reunion!











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God Be With You


~Selah




God be with you till we meet again;

By His counsels guide, uphold you,

With His sheep securely fold you;

God be with you till we meet again.


verse 2

God be with you till we meet again;

'Neath His wings securely hide you

Daily manna still provide you

God be with you till we meet again.


(Refrain)

Till we meet, till we meet,

Till we meet at Jesus’ feet;

Till we meet, till we meet,

God be with you till we meet again.


verse 3

God be with you till we meet again;

When life’s perils thick confound you;

Put His arms unfailing 'round you;

God be with you till we meet again.


(Refrain)

Till we meet, till we meet,

Till we meet at Jesus’ feet;

Till we meet, till we meet,

God be with you...

God be with you..

Oh,God be with you

Till we meet again.










Poem - A Letter to and from My Baby Girl Her Fifth Year in Heaven - Angie Bennett Prince - 7/31/11
Video/Grief Song - http://youtu.be/IVcj3nW6OE8

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Monday's Mourning Ministry - Looking Back Through Time at Our Grief - You're Not Alone ~Meredith Andrews





Monday's Mourning Ministry


Looking Back Through Time at Our Grief


You're Not Alone


~Meredith Andrews







Written over two years ago:




Two Years of Grief – Reality’s Setting In



We upped our anti-depressants today

Snarling and growling, Hypersensitive,

Sinking down in a hole, Touchy, Sobbing,

Working through struggles, Last nerves do fray,

Agitated, Depressed, and Defensive,

Energies depleted, Nightmares—sleep robbing,

Two years of grief—Reality’s setting in—

She’s not coming home, not moving back in:

Too much of a void—too big for our heart—

Such a lively child played such a big part.

Her room’s untouched; we must go through her things. . .

We can’t—such stark reality it brings.


God, please come along-side; give us Your hope;

There’s too much pain—we don’t know how to cope.

Throw Your life raft—we’re at th’ end of our rope!






Written today:


At 4 1/2 Years of Grief, Some Relief



Child-loss grief is very hard, complicated...

Pain transcendent over all; still life goes on,

Sadly....and admittedly truncated.

Stress hormones settled some

But still searching for equilibrium...

Still besieged with terror, dread, agitation,

Ongoing chaos, confusion, lack of control,

Emotions volatile, still mending holes in my soul,

Fatigue, lack of energy, feeling lost,

Still wondering who I am, and what to do now,

Surviving life a moment at a time: Grief's cost.

(To child-loss civilians, no way to explain

The effects of grief one has, when a child is slain...)

God soothes and comforts his child's troubled brow,

"I'll never leave you, nor forsake you,"

He assures me, even now...

By faith I say, "The Lord is my helper, I'll not be afraid,"

4 1/2 years, since in the ground, my baby was laid...



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"I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”


~John 16:33 NLT




We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing.


When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said He would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God Himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!"


~Romans 4:17-18 The Message (capitalizations of pronouns, mine)



...God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."


So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid..."


~Hebrews 13:5b-6a NIV



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You're Not Alone


~Meredith Andrews



I searched for love

When the night came,

And it closed in

I was alone

But You found me where I was hiding

And now I'll never, ever be the same

It was the sweetest voice that called my name.


Saying,

"You're Not Alone

For I am here!

Let me wipe away your every fear

My love, I've never left your side ~

I have seen you through the darkest night...

And I'm the one Who's loved you all your life

All of your life!


"You cry yourself to sleep

'Cause the hurt is real

and the pain cuts deep

All hope seems lost

With heartache your closest friend

And everyone else long gone

You've had to face the music on your own

But there is a sweeter song that calls you home.


Saying,

"You're not alone for I am here

Let me wipe away your every tear

My love, I've never left your side

I have seen you through the darkest night

And I'm the One who's loved you all your life

All your life

Faithful and true FOREVER

Oh, My love will carry you


"You're not alone for I, I am here

Let me wipe away your every fear

Oh yeah

My love, I've never left your side

I have seen you through the darkest night

Your darkest night

And I'm the one who's loved you all your life

All of your life!"









Picture - thanks to http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com
Poem - Two Years of Grief - Reality's Setting In - Angie Bennett Prince - 12/4/08
Poem - At 4 1/2 Years of Grief, Some Relief - Angie Bennett Prince - 3/20/2011
Scripture, Versions - NLT (New Living Translation), The Message, and (NIV) New International Version