Monday's Mourning Ministry - My Heart is Broken / Storm ~Lifehouse

Monday's Mourning Ministry

My Heart is Broken

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Storm

~Lifehouse

My Heart is Broken

My heart is broken...

A tender token

Of my love for you.

Love breaks hearts open,

As God has spoken,

"Come, suffer for Me."

So, as I suffer ~

This grieving mother ~

God's love breaks open

On this mother broken...

Tender words spoken,

Deep hurt evoking,

Like His at Calvary...

His Father-heart broken~

Love suffered...for you and me...

I take up my cross

To follow Thee:

Broken, poured out for Thee,

Dying, I'll live for Thee!

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Storm

~Lifehouse

How long have I

Been in this storm

So overwhelmed by the ocean's shapeless form

Water's getting harder to tread

With these waves crashing over my head

If I could just see you

Everything would be alright

If I'd see you this darkness

Would turn to light

And I will walk on water

And you will catch me if I fall

And I will get lost into your eyes

I know everything will be alright

I know everything IS alright

I know you didn't

Bring me out here to drown

So why am I ten feet under and upside down

Barely surviving has become my purpose

'Cause I'm so used to living underneath the surface

If I could just see you

Everything would be alright

If I see you this darkness would turn to light

And I will walk on water

And you will catch me if I fall

And I will get lost into your eyes

I know everything will be alright

And I will walk on water

And you will catch me if I fall

And I will get lost into your eyes

I know everything will be alright

I know everything IS alright

Everything's alright ~ yeah

Everything's alright.

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(Jesus speaking) - "I will show (Paul) how much he must suffer for My name."

~Acts 9:16

(Paul later speaking to fellow-believers in a city called Philippi) -

For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for Him, since you are going through the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

~Philippians 1:29-30

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5XDx40_Gb8

Poem - My Heart is Broken - Angie Bennett Prince - 12/12/10

Wednesday’s Woe - Red Rover, Red Rover, My Life Is Over

Wednesday’s Woe

Three Years of Parents' Loss of Child

Red Rover, Red Rover, My Life Is Over

My husband Tommy’s view of life for these past three years of parent-loss…

Red Rover, Red Rover

My life is Over,

I sit watching my dog

Roll over and over.

And, now for my view...

When You Died that Night

When you died that night

My life was shattered.

So between you and I—

Were you the only one

Who really mattered?

Yet, my life goes on

Though broken and tattered…

My body functions

Though my heart be battered;

My emotions pour out

From my heart, they splatter . . . .

Such is the life of a heart that’s been shattered.

Say, how do I function

when my heart’s been shattered?

"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it,

does it make a sound?"

Is a life really a life

When a heart’s been shattered?

My guess:

Answer to #1 God is always there, and He hears it: therefore it makes a sound.

Answer to #2 God is always there, and He breathes life: therefore Life still exists though the heart’s been shattered.

What is your guess?

Picture: Our dog, "Prissy"

Poem - "Red Rover, Red Rover, My Life is Over" written by Tommy Prince, 2007

Poem - "When You Died that Night" (in pink) written by Angie Bennett Prince 4/6/2008

Post written 9/30/09

“Elvis-Pelvis” Visits Heartbreak Hotel

9/22/09 I fell three and a half weeks ago. I had awakened from a nightmare at 4:45 am on a Saturday morning, and knew I needed to go to the den to read awhile before I would wind down enough to go back to sleep….

In a sleepyheaded stupor, I walked down our pitch-black hall, deciding not to turn on the light so that I wouldn't awaken my husband. Feeling my way along the wall, when I got to the doorframe of what I thought was our den, I turned and stepped in…only to find myself stepping down….

I sleepily wondered to myself,

"I don't remember

a

step

down

into

our

den!"

Then, I felt myself plunging full-speed down onto what I quickly realized were our basement stairs! I "flew" down eight of the fourteen steps, landing on the eighth stair, sitting up….

Unfortunately however,

my "wings" were not wings at all,

but were my ribs and hips!

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Three days later, I went for an x-ray and discovered I had two broken bones in my left pelvis! But when I met with the Orthopedic doctor for the second time today for another x-ray, the doctor discovered

I had broken not two bones as we originally had thought, but

all 3 bones in my pelvis

– the ischium, pubic bone, and ilium –

were broken in two!

Or,

as my highly-educated husband Tommy likes to so eloquently say,

"Elvis done broke her pelvis!"

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Three weeks ago, the x-rays only showed two breaks; the third break had been camouflaged by some ligament-damage, effectively blocking the view of the 3rd breakage site!

"That's what I consider a major injury!"

my otherwise nonchalant, under-stating orthopedic surgeon declared this morning.

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Looking at the x-ray, I noticed the breaks were aligned one on top of the other in a straight line. I later said to my husband,

"I feel like the lady the magician sawed in half!”

My husband affirmed,

“Only you were sawed in half vertically,

not horizontally!"

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I am doing physical therapy three times a week, and am healing nicely, but it will take three to four months to completely heal the bones. A walker is still indicated for the next 4 weeks when I will see my doctor again.

Still, no surgery, no cast, and no brace is needed!

The bones will heal themselves!

Physical therapy continues so that I keep my range of motion in play. All should heal back so that I will be back to normal. There are no displacements, my hips are still even, and my legs are still evenly aligned according to the doctor….

Thank You Lord that You heal the bones back with no medical intervention!

What miracles I am watching take place!

What miracles our bodies are!

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Question:

I wonder, why is it

broken bones heal back completely,

but when a child dies . . .

our broken hearts never will?

picture: http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/suffering_5.html