Showing posts with label Poem about Death of Our Daughter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poem about Death of Our Daughter. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Tuesday's Trust - I Am Broken...





I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: 
I am like a broken vessel.

~Psalm 31:12


Tuesday's Trust

I Am Broken...










I Am Broken…



My child was killed…
Broken am I.
And yet…


HE was broken for me!


Goals, you say?
Who am I?
Where am I going?


He went to the cross!
He died for me!
He died for my child!


I am God's child.
I lost my child.
I carry my cross.


He broke bread
…...............................and gave it to His disciples.
….............His body, broken for me


Perhaps in my brokenness
He pours out, through me...


I am broken.
I am made in His image,
to be conformed to Him.
He was broken.
I'm to become like Him…


God's way
Is not man's.



We're to be broken, poured out...


His goal for me?


Not the way of the world
But the way of Love.
I am broken,
But I am His.
My child was broken,
But she is His.
Love holds us both.
It is enough.




Jesus, You are enough for me.

~Philippians 4:19



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"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts."



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 But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Most assuredly, I say to you, 

unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. 

He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.


John 12:23-26 NKJV



Poem - I Am Broken... ~Angie Bennett Prince - May 5, 2014









"Broken" graphic, from
http://in-formatio.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/depressionslide3.png

Scripture graphic, thanks to 
* Scripture & Words * NO.5    Phoebe    on Pinterest


Thursday, March 29, 2012

Your 25th Birthday - In Loving Memory of Merry Katherine Prince




In Loving Memory

Merry Katherine Prince

(3/29/1987 - 8/2/2006)



25 years old, today you would be

Had Death not taken you 6 years ago.

We survive today knowing you're happy,

Living in Love under the Father's glow.


But baby our lives have been impacted

By devastations wreaked by our great loss:

If life's a prism, our light's refracted,

Shattered by the load of Death's heavy cross.


Bones broken, cancers unleashed, lives stymied,

Each of us now, in ways, walks with a limp,

No longer the same after Death's stampede;

We only get through as we cling to Him.


Grief is God's road of Light through the Darkness;

Tears clear the way as Love's cleansing rain.

Hallowing the ground of Death's harsh starkness,

God Himself meets us to comfort our pain.


Today we smile as we embrace your life,

Grief's temporary burdens though now we bear.

We know you're freed from tempestuous strife,

Once received in the arms of Abba's care.


So for now by grace, we will carry on;

We'll see you in time as we're carried Home;

But until then, you will live in our prayer

Of thanks to God we'll embrace again There.


Happy Birthday in Heaven! We love you so!

Mommy, Daddy, Nathan, Rollin, Stephanie, and Merry Elizabeth