Monday's Mourning Ministry - The Sky is Crying ~Stevie Ray Vaughan ~Revised Lyrics for Grieving Parents

Monday's Mourning Ministry

The Sky is Crying

~Stevie Ray Vaughan

~with Revised Lyrics for Grieving Parents

The Sky is Crying

~Stevie Ray Vaughan

The sky is cryin',
can ya see the tears roll down the street
The sky is cryin',
can ya see the tears roll down the street
I been lookin' for my baby, yeah
yeah, an' I wonder where can she be

I saw my baby early one mornin',
an' she was walkin' on down the street
I saw my baby early one mornin',
an' she was walkin' on down the street
You know it hurt me, hurt me so bad, yeah
it made my poor heart skip a beat

I got a real, real, real bad feelin',
my baby ain't gon' be here no more 
I got a real, real  bad, bad feelin',
my baby ain't gon' be here no more 
You know the sky's been cryin' now,
Can you see the tears flow from the depths of my soul?  

Pictures by ~Grieving Mothers and ~Wings of Hope-Living Forward
Grief Song: http://youtu.be/6s9M-52fRGU

Monday's Mourning Ministry - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone ~Bill Withers - Revised Lyrics for Grieving Parents

Monday's Mourning Ministry

Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

~Bill Withers

Revised Lyrics for Grieving Parents 

"The case of a parent losing a child is very special because the most deep-seated protective and nurturant emotions are brutalized. Because this 'injury' is so severe to such primitive emotional processes, the grieving parent is likely to feel and express the pain associated with it for the rest of his or her life."

~Dr Joanne Cacciatore

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Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

~Bill Withers

Lyrics revised for Grieving Parents

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone 

It's not warm when she's away 

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone 

And she's always gone too long

Anytime she goes away

Wonder this time Where she's gone

Wonder if she's gone to stay

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

And this house just ain't no home

Anytime she goes away

And I know, I know...

Hey, I need my baby home ~

'Cause ain't no sunshine when she's gone 

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

Only darkness everyday

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

And this house just ain't no home

Anytime she goes away 

Anytime she goes away

Anytime she goes away

Anytime she goes away....

Picture, thanks to ~Death of a Loved One
Grief Video: http://youtu.be/-2FJWRy74h0 

Monday's Mourning Ministry Empty Arms ~Reba McEntire ~Lyrics revised for bereaved parents

Monday's Mourning Ministry

Empty Arms

~Reba McEntire

~Lyrics revised for bereaved parents

Empty Arms

~Reba McEntire

*lyrics revised for bereaved parents, in bold

Empty arms

That long for you

And they wait,

Dear, just for you

And these arms

Will stay this way

Till you return

To them some Day

Each lonely night

I go to bed

I hug the pillow

Where you used to lay your head

Empty arms

But not for long

I'll join my baby, 

when I go Home…

And when I

Walk through Heav'n's Door

These empty arms

I'll have no more

Interlude

And when I

Walk through Heav'n's door,

These empty arms

I'll have no more

These empty arms

I'll have no more


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Scriptures for Bereaved Parents:

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in Me. In My Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”

~John 14:1-4, NIV

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a Country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better Country—a Heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a City for them.

~Hebrews 11:13-16, NIV

These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

Hebrews 11:39-40, NIV

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

~Hebrews 12:1-3, NIV

For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the City that is to come.

~Hebrews 13:14, NIV

Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words.

~1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, NIV

(Some capitalizations, mine)

Video: http://youtu.be/kiqz70FXJvI
NIV = New International Version of The Holy Bible

Monday's Mourning Ministry - These Arms of Mine ~Otis Redding ~with Revised Lyrics for Grieving Parents

Monday's Mourning Ministry

These Arms of Mine

~Otis Redding

~with Revised Lyrics for Grieving Parents

On Friday's Faith this week, I shared a poem expressing Tommy's laments about longing to hold our daughter in his arms again. The sentiments from the poem culminated into the final sentiment as Tommy was listening to Otis Redding's impassioned rendition of his spontaneously created song, "These Arms of Mine." When Tommy shared his thoughts with me, I teared up, and then the tears began to flow...

We wanted to share this very familiar song with all of you even though we are sure you too have heard it many times. But we have changed some of Otis's lyrics as his were crooned more in the context of romantic love while ours are wailed from out the depths of our broken hearts which house the desperate  and longing love we feel for our-precious-child-who-is-not-here. 

As you replace Otis's words with ours, it is our hope you will picture your own dear child, and use the very soulful groaning of Otis along with the words of a parent's wail of genuine love that has been forced to go "unrequited." 

“Because, if you could love someone, 

and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . 

then that love had to be real. 

It hurt too much to be anything else.” 

~ Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly

“When I talk about unrequited love, 

most of you probably think about romantic love, 

but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, 

if they are returned at all. 

An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; 

an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. 

But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. 

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, 

they can never love us back. 

At least that is how it feels...” 

~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister

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These Arms of Mine

~Otis Redding

~with Bereaved Parents' lyrics

Revised Lyrics for Grieving Parents:

These arms of mine 

They are lonely, lonely and feeling blue 

These arms of mine 

They are yearning, yearning from missing you. 

And if God would let them hold you 

Oh, how grateful I will be 

These arms of mine 

They are burning, burning from missing you 

These arms of mine 

They are wanting, wanting to hold you 

And if God would let them hold you 

Oh, how grateful I will be

Dear God, dear God, oh please please

Just let me hold her, just let me hold her, oh

I'm grieving my baby, my baby who had to leave me, oh

I long to wrap my loving arms around, (around my baby) and hold her tight

O I...I..I...need... I need my baby near me,

O I need to hold, O Lord to hold... Dear Lord, I need to hold... my baby so tight.

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Original Lyrics

These arms of mine 

They are lonely, lonely and feeling blue 

These arms of mine 

They are yearning, yearning from wanting you 

And if you would let them hold you 

Oh, how grateful I will be 

These arms of mine 

They are burning, burning from wanting you 

These arms of mine 

They are wanting, wanting to hold you 

And if you would let them hold you 

Oh, how grateful I will be 

Come on, come on baby 

Just be my little woman, just be my lover, oh 

I need me somebody, somebody to treat me right, oh 

I need your woman's loving arms to hold me tight 

And I...I...I need...I need your...I need your tender lips

Video: http://youtu.be/K-FQL-tJ3ic
Pics, thanks to Grieving Mothers
Quotes, thanks to goodreads.com