Showing posts with label Grief Poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grief Poem. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Tuesday's Trust - When Fulfilled Love Unfurls…








Tuesday's Trust

When Fulfilled Love Unfurls…











O Father, release Your light into my heart
For all seems dark since we've been apart..
Stark sadness overwhelms this weary heart...
But Your Gladness cheers as Your Love imparts

Strength to this soul, from inside out,
Clearing my vision, ridding my doubt…
Reminding me she is… There… with You,
With nothing tainting her earthly view~~~

For she looks down, but sees not only me
Steeped in sadness, but still resting... in Thee…


You alone will heal this soul
When Your Light o'ertakes the Darkness of this 
empty hole
Where my child once filled this mommy's world,

Lord, how I miss my baby girl…


Thank You that she's safe… There… with You
Please give me Lord Your Heavenly view…
Where One Day I'll fly into her arms
Filled with Joy, not earthly alarms,

Joy... resurrected by Your own blood
Shed for me and my sweet baby girl
Then once again my tears will flood
But this time because Joy, fulfilled Love unfurls…



Poem-When Fulfilled Love Unfurls~Angie Bennett Prince-May 16, 2014










Portrait: Afternoon At The Beach, ~Diane Leonard
GLORIOUS colour   ~   Jan   ~Pinterest  



Friday, September 2, 2011

Saturday's Sayings - Love and Loss, Courage and Hope








Saturday's Sayings


Love and Loss,


Courage and Hope







"If we come to see the purpose of the universe as God's long-term glory rather than our short-term happiness, then we will undergo a critical paradigm shift in tackling the problem of evil and suffering."


{Alcorn also was talking about the curses that fell on Satan, Adam, and Eve in the garden. He expounds on God's words about pain in childbearing...}


"The increase of pain in childbearing may also suggest the difficulty and heartbreak of parenting that would come with the Fall..."



~Randy Alcorn, If God is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil





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“Will I trust God enough to see me through to the other side even when I can’t see the edge?”


~ from a devotional read by writer Donna C. Tinsley





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MAMA I AM HOLDING YOU WHEN YOU CRY


(SONG) ~by Sandi Johnson




Go ahead mama get it out and c-r-y.......................

Heaven has opened up the skies.

When your child dies.

Go ahead mama and cry.....................

We will make it through somehow

I am here,and I am with you now.

Go ahead mama get it out and cry.....................

Mama I am holding you when you cry.

I am so sorry, I had to spread my wings and fly.

Stay here and wait for me it's not your time to die.

I will be here,I will come right back to feel all your love.

My angel wings wraps around my mama from above.

Your heart is bleeding from the hurt and the pain.

But I am still your little angel and I will be back when you call my name.

Go ahead and say," I want you back, right here like it is suppose to be"

So I can kiss away the hurt like you did for me.

Go ahead mama get it out and c-r-y.......................

Heaven has opened up the skies.

When your child dies.

Go ahead mama and c-r-y.....................

We will make it through somehow

I am here,and I am with you now.

Go ahead mama get it out and cry.....................

Mama I am holding you when you cry.

Just reach out and hold my hand and I will walk with you.

Remember I am your little baby you held onto.

Like the day on my birthday when I was born.

It's ok mama you have earned your right to mourn.

When you feel alone and there is no one to comfort you when you cry.

Then you see me in your thoughts in your memory I am close by.

And you dream of us together and I am so close you can hold me.

Mama, just Call out my name and I will be where you want me to be.

Go ahead mama get it out and c-r-y.......................

Heaven has opened up the skies.

When your child dies.

Go ahead mama and c-r-y.....................

We will make it through somehow

I am here,and I am with you now.

Go ahead mama get it out and cry.....................

I am so sorry, I had to spread my wings and fly.

I will never say goodbye.

Mama I am holding you when you cry.



~written by Sandi Johnson, grieving mother:

"My baby boy, Hank Alan Johnson, who was murdered in Hearne TX July 21, 2008. Still unsolved."





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LEGACY

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

- Pericles




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"Modern science is still unable to produce a better tranquillizer than a few kind words."


~Unknown





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    • I can tell by that look friend, that you need to talk,

    • So come take my hand and let's go for a walk.

    • See, I'm not like the others - I won't shy away,

    • Because I want to hear what you've got to say.


    • Your child has died and you need to be heard,

    • But they don't want to hear a single word.

    • They tell you your child's "with God," so be strong.

    • They say all the "right" things that somehow seem wrong.


    • They're just hurting for you and trying to say,

    • They'd give anything to help take your pain away.

    • But they're struggling with feelings they can't understand

    • So forgive them for not offering a helping hand.


    • I'll walk in your shoes for more than a mile.

    • I'll wait while you cry and be glad if you smile.

    • I won't criticize you or judge you or scorn,

    • I'll just stay and listen 'til your night turns to morn.


    • Yes, the journey is hard and unbearably long,

    • And I know that you think that you're not quite that strong.

    • So just take my hand 'cause I've got time to spare,

    • And I know how it hurts, friend, for I have been there.


    • See, I owe a debt you can help me repay

    • For not long ago, I was helped the same way.

    • As I stumbled and fell thru a world so unreal,

    • So believe when I say that I know how you feel.


    • I don't look for praise or financial gain

    • And I'm sure not the kind who gets joy out of pain.

    • I'm just a strong shoulder who'll be here 'til the end-

    • I'll be your Compassionate Friend.

    • ~contributed by grieving mother, Leena Landmark




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"Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace."


~ Jerry Bridges











Picture/Graphic, thanks to Grieving Mother, TeriAnn Sargent


Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Wednesday's Woe - A Tribute to the Life of Grieving Mother Yvonne...




One of Yvonne's "Wall Photos" on Facebook




Wednesday's Woe


A Tribute to the Life of Grieving Mother Yvonne...






The depth of pain for many of us can go this far. I had been off Facebook for a couple of days only to discover this afternoon that two days ago, a beloved sister-in-grief, Yvonne, succumbed to her child-loss pain and took her own life.




So sad. So sobering. It is so painful to walk through life without our child. And then we hear of a precious mother who could no longer tolerate the pain. Her young adult son died suddenly of what the doctors think was an undiagnosed condition of an enlarged heart. He died only 8 months ago. My Facebook friend had so much pain from childhood, then in adulthood, yet her child brought so much joy to her life. Since his death, she has been in great emotional turmoil, and in great physical pain from an ongoing illness and from an injury that was keeping her from her work of 16 years in which she helped people with developmental disabilities. She couldn't get on disability herself, and she was becoming more and more depressed. She had much support from other grieving "sisters," but the pain evidently became too great...



Yvonne was an honest, candid, open person on Facebook, supportive of others while realistic about the depths of pain that occur in child-loss grief.




On her Facebook wall, she had written under the category, "Religious Views,"



"I believe in God and love. Although, since I lost my precious son, I sometimes wonder if God loves me."




I pray that she is at peace now and knows beyond a shadow of a doubt how great God's love for her truly is.


Yvonne, precious sister-in-grief, may you rest in God's arms tonight, forever wrapped in His love and in His perfect peace. And may you smile to see your precious son there by your side.



Please pray for Yvonne's family tonight as they mourn a beautiful and beloved soul.


May we continue to love and support one another in our grief amidst often overwhelming pain.




I had used the picture below on my blog a couple of months ago, thanks to Yvonne's kindness. After Yvonne's own son's death, a friend of hers wrote the following poem for her on her son's birthday. It is amazing to me how her friend's poem goes with the picture Yvonne loaned me. May its message be true for Yvonne today...





"Somewhere a journey begins at the end

of the worldly existence we know.

Somewhere a path stretches over the stars,

and rivers of memories flow...

Somewhere a silence is heard far away,

and the brightness of day

fills the night.

Where the trials of life are resolved into peace...

when a soul finds its way to the light."


~Delores Felix










Rest in Peace, Yvonne...

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Monday's Mourning Ministry - Where Leads This Path of Sorrow? / Perfect Peace ~Laura Story





"Through the tender mercy of our GOD... to give Light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to Guide our feet into The Way of Peace." ~Luke 1:78-79




Monday's Mourning Ministry


Where Leads This Path of Sorrow?


Perfect Peace ~Laura Story







"I bare you on eagle's wings, and brought you unto Myself."


~Exodus 19:4




Fearing to launch on "full surrender's" tide,

I asked the Lord where would its waters glide

My little bark, "To troubled seas I dread?"

"Unto Myself," He said.


Weeping beside an open grave I stood,

In bitterness of soul I cried to God:

"Where leads this path of sorrow that I tread?"

"Unto Myself," He said.


Striving for souls, I loved the work too well;

Then disappointments came; I could not tell

The reason, till He said, "I am thine all;

Unto Myself I call."


Watching my heroes--those I loved the best--

I saw them fail; they could not stand the test,

Even by this the Lord, through tears not few,

Unto Himself me drew.


Unto Himself! No earthly tongue can tell

The bliss I find, since in His heart I dwell;

The things that charmed me once seem all as naught;

Unto Himself I'm brought.




~Selected, from Streams in the Desert, Vol. I




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Perfect Peace


~Laura Story



Stay close by My side,

Keep your eyes on Me,

Though this life is hard,

I will give you perfect peace,


In this time of trial,

Pain that no one sees,

Trust me when I say,

I will give you perfect peace,


And you'll never walk alone,

And you'll never be in need,

Though I may not calm the storms around you,

You can hide in Me,


Burdens that you bear,

Offer no relief,

Let Me bear your load,

'Cause I will give you perfect peace,


Stay close by My side,

And you'll never walk alone,

Keep your eyes on Me,

And you will never be in need,

Though this life is hard,

Know that I will always give you perfect peace,

I will give you perfect peace...




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Scriptures for God's Children




Be still and know that I am God.


~Psalm 46:10a




Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.


~John 14:27




(I will never walk alone...) for Your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in Your truth.


~Psalm 26:3




... and your life is now hidden with Christ.


~Colossians 3:3




(B)ut whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.


~John 4:14




By His wounds we are healed.


~Isaiah 53:5d




(You'll never walk alone.) The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.


~Psalm 46:11




The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and His ears are attentive to their cry...


~Psalm 34:11




"Through the tender mercy of our GOD... to give Light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to Guide our feet into The Way of Peace."


~Luke 1:78-79



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"Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm."


~Author Unknown










Picture - http://wallpaper.pair.com/jesus/Jesus.Wallpaper.3.html
Devotional poem (August 21) from Streams in the Desert, Volume I; compiled by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman (1925)

Video - http://youtu.be/jqqfDtnv8fY


Friday, August 19, 2011

Saturday's Sayings - Companionship in Grief





Saturday's Sayings


Companionship in Grief






What I Have Learned



I`ve learned that you can keep going long after you think you can't.

I`ve learned that learning to forgive takes a lot of practice.

I`ve learned that friends may become strangers, and strangers become friends.

I`ve learned that ignorance isn't an excuse for lack of compassion.

I`ve learned that some people will never, ever, "get it".

I`ve learned that the community of sorrow is the strongest of all.

I`ve learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.

I`ve learned that your life can be changed in a matter of minutes.

I`ve learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you ever see them.

I`ve learned that love isn't measured by the amount of time you have with someone.


~by Paul Bell



~Thank you, Pearl, for sharing this!





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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.


~Charles Dickens Great Expectations





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God is closest to those with broken hearts.


~Jewish Saying





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Walk With Me




Walk with me…

Walk in my shoes

for one single day.

Then you’ll see why

I need to pray.


Come live in my home

for a week or two

and then remember

I am just like you.


I didn’t ask for the things I was given

I didn’t choose this road I have taken

Walk a mile with me hand in hand

Then perhaps you will understand.


I’m not really complaining

about the stress in my life,

I know that we all have

some toil and some strife.


But walk with me, when you think

I am wrong, walk with me

and you’ll start to belong.


Embrace my sorrows,

like they are your own,

And then you will know me

And see I have grown.


The journey I take

is different from yours

My life took one of those

unexpected detours,

But this road that I travel

is not really so long,

If the people who watch me

will join in my song.


Listen to my footsteps

and watch how I dance

And then you will know me

and give me a chance.


Take heart and remember

It can happen to you,

who knows where my pathway

will cross over to you?


So speak to me softly

if you can’t understand

Remember I once stood

right there where you stand.

And walk with me gently

when the day is at end.

And then I will know

I can call you my friend.



~Author Unknown


Thank you, Grieving Mothers!