Verse... "Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10
Song...
Poem... I found this poem online I hold no rights to it.
Broken
My heart is broken.
Why can't you all just see.
It is not strength I show.
Just an empty hallow me.
You have changed.
Some might say.
The happy, laughing, smiling me.
Has quickly gone away.
My son has gone to heaven.
And with him a piece of me.
You don't quite understand.
And are not sure what to say.
I am not sure of anything.
As I get up each and everyday.
I truly love my son.
Please don't let him be forgotten.
So when you see my tears.
And you think you've hurt me in someway.
Please don't walk away.
Just sit with me and talk.
About my son who went away.
I know my heart is broken.
And this you cannot fix.
It helps to know he's remembered.
By those he touched that day.
My very special Angel.
who had to go away.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Where oh where...
Verse... "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Thought for today... God is here for us. He will carry us through our troubles if we let Him, but He does not guarantee that life will go as we wish. Death and suffering are part of our life, and our faith is there to help us through it, not prevent it. The last thing I wanted to do in my hour of need was to cut myself off from the only person who would not say something thoughtless or let me down--God.
Song...
Poem...
Oh Where, oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to Heaven so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world...
Well now she's gone, even though I hold her tight
I lost my love, my life, that night...
Taken from Pearl Jam's cover of "Last Kiss"
Thought for today... God is here for us. He will carry us through our troubles if we let Him, but He does not guarantee that life will go as we wish. Death and suffering are part of our life, and our faith is there to help us through it, not prevent it. The last thing I wanted to do in my hour of need was to cut myself off from the only person who would not say something thoughtless or let me down--God.
Song...
Poem...
Oh Where, oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to Heaven so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world...
Well now she's gone, even though I hold her tight
I lost my love, my life, that night...
Taken from Pearl Jam's cover of "Last Kiss"
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Dear Mr. Hallmark
Verse... "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34 NIV
Song...
Poem...
Dear Mr. Hallmark
Dear Mr. Hallmark, I am writing to you from heaven, and though it must appear
A rather strange idea, I see everything from here.
I just popped in to visit, your stores to find a card
A card of love for my mother,as this day for her is hard.
There must be some mistake I thought, every card you could imagine
Except I could not find a card, from a child who lives in heaven.
She is still a mother too, no matter where I reside
I had to leave, she understands, but oh the tears she's cried.
I thought that if I wrote you, that you would come to know
That though I live in heaven now, I still love my mother so.
She talks with me, and dreams with me; we still share laughter too,
Memories our way of speaking now, would you see what you could do?
My mother carries me in her heart, her tears she hides from sight.
She writes poems to honor me, sometimes far into the night.
She plants flowers in my garden, there my living memory dwells
She writes to other grieving parents, trying to ease their pain as well.
So you see Mr. Hallmark, though I no longer live on earth
I must find a way, to remind her of her wondrous worth.
She needs to be honored, and remembered too
Just as the children of earth will do.
Thank you Mr. Hallmark, I know you'll do your best
I have done all I can do; to you I'll leave the rest.
Find a way to tell her, how much she means to me
Until I can do it for myself, when she joins me in eternity
Song...
Poem...
Dear Mr. Hallmark
Dear Mr. Hallmark, I am writing to you from heaven, and though it must appear
A rather strange idea, I see everything from here.
I just popped in to visit, your stores to find a card
A card of love for my mother,as this day for her is hard.
There must be some mistake I thought, every card you could imagine
Except I could not find a card, from a child who lives in heaven.
She is still a mother too, no matter where I reside
I had to leave, she understands, but oh the tears she's cried.
I thought that if I wrote you, that you would come to know
That though I live in heaven now, I still love my mother so.
She talks with me, and dreams with me; we still share laughter too,
Memories our way of speaking now, would you see what you could do?
My mother carries me in her heart, her tears she hides from sight.
She writes poems to honor me, sometimes far into the night.
She plants flowers in my garden, there my living memory dwells
She writes to other grieving parents, trying to ease their pain as well.
So you see Mr. Hallmark, though I no longer live on earth
I must find a way, to remind her of her wondrous worth.
She needs to be honored, and remembered too
Just as the children of earth will do.
Thank you Mr. Hallmark, I know you'll do your best
I have done all I can do; to you I'll leave the rest.
Find a way to tell her, how much she means to me
Until I can do it for myself, when she joins me in eternity
Monday, January 25, 2010
My shoes
I pray that you all find peace today...
Verse..this has become one of my favorite passages since losing baby Grace... "1.O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. 2.You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3.You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4.Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. 5.You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6.Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7.Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8.If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9.If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10.even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11.If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," 12.even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13.For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14.I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful," Psalm 139:1-14
Song.....
Poem.... I have used this poem before, but I thought it beared repeating..
I am wearing a pair of shoes.
They are ugly shoes.
Uncomfortable shoes.
I hate my shoes.
Each day I wear them, and each day I wish I had another pair.
Some days my shoes hurt so bad that I do not think I can take another step.
Yet, I continue to wear them.
I get funny looks wearing these shoes.
They are looks of sympathy.
I can tell in other's eyes that they are glad they are my shoes and not
theirs.
They never talk about my shoes.
To learn how awful my shoes are might make them uncomfortable.
To truly understand these shoes you must walk in them.
But, once you put them on, you can never take them off.
I now realize that I am not the only one who wears these shoes.
There are many pairs in this world.
Some women are like me and ache daily as they try to walk in them.
Some have learned how to walk in them so that they don't hurt quite so
much.
Some have worn the shoes so long that days will go by before they think
about how much they hurt.
No woman deserves to wear these shoes.
Yet, because of these shoes I am a stronger woman.
These shoes have given me the strength to face anything.
They have made me who I am.
I will forever walk in the shoes of a woman who has lost a child.
Verse..this has become one of my favorite passages since losing baby Grace... "1.O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. 2.You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3.You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4.Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. 5.You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6.Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7.Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8.If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9.If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10.even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11.If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," 12.even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13.For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14.I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful," Psalm 139:1-14
Song.....
Poem.... I have used this poem before, but I thought it beared repeating..
I am wearing a pair of shoes.
They are ugly shoes.
Uncomfortable shoes.
I hate my shoes.
Each day I wear them, and each day I wish I had another pair.
Some days my shoes hurt so bad that I do not think I can take another step.
Yet, I continue to wear them.
I get funny looks wearing these shoes.
They are looks of sympathy.
I can tell in other's eyes that they are glad they are my shoes and not
theirs.
They never talk about my shoes.
To learn how awful my shoes are might make them uncomfortable.
To truly understand these shoes you must walk in them.
But, once you put them on, you can never take them off.
I now realize that I am not the only one who wears these shoes.
There are many pairs in this world.
Some women are like me and ache daily as they try to walk in them.
Some have learned how to walk in them so that they don't hurt quite so
much.
Some have worn the shoes so long that days will go by before they think
about how much they hurt.
No woman deserves to wear these shoes.
Yet, because of these shoes I am a stronger woman.
These shoes have given me the strength to face anything.
They have made me who I am.
I will forever walk in the shoes of a woman who has lost a child.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
A Place...
Verse.... "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:33 - 34 NIV
Thought for today... I cheated a little today, this was my What God wants me to know on facebook. But I thought it was so true that I had to use it. God wants you to know that to love is to be vulnerable. Love is the opening of the heart, the welcoming of your beloved. Loving is not secure, authentic loving is risky. Security lies behind the walls of a closed heart. You either invite the union by opening in love, or you secure the isolation by closing down.
Song...... This is a song that was used in the movie "Fireproof". If you have never seen the movie I highly recommend it to you!
Poem....
A PLACE
This is a poem for those who have lost their children.
"A PLACE"
THERE IS A PLACE THAT NO ONE WANTS TO GO
HEARTS ARE BROKEN,TEARS CONTINUE TO FLOW
EMPTINESS,LONLINESS AND AWESOME DESPAIR
EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK THINGS SEEM TO GLARE
ITS A PLACE NO ONE WANTS TO GO
YOUR HEAD SEEMS SO HEAVY,YOUR HEART HURTS SO
NOTHING COMPARES WITH THE DEPTH SO LOW
OF LOSING YOUR CHILDREN TO DEATHS BLOW
DEATH SEEMS TO CLAIM VICTORY EVEN THO WE KNOW
ALL IS SECURE, ENCOMPASSED IN HEAVENS GLOW
DEATH IS A PLACE NO ONE WANTS TO GO
TO ALL DEAR PARENTS, WHEREVER YOU ARE
DON'T LET IT ENCOMPASS YOU, LOOK AFAR
SOMEDAY SOON WE WILL GO WHERE THEY ARE
THERE WILL BE NO MORE TEARS, EMPTINESS NOR DESPAIR
EVERY WRONG WILL SOON BE IN REPAIR
IN ETERNITY NO SEPERATION WILL EVER BE THERE
SO LOOK TO THE LORD, HIS MERCY ENDURES
HIS GRACE ABOUNDS, HIS LOVE IS SO PURE
THEN DEATH WILL BE A PLACE WE WILL ALL WANT TO GO
LIKE THEM WE TOO WILL BASK IN HEAVENS GLOW
LOREN'S MOM 1/03/68 5/29/02
ISACC'S GRANDMOTHER 9/15/98 10/29/00
DESTINY'S GREAT GRANDMOTHER STILLBORN 12/10/00
Thought for today... I cheated a little today, this was my What God wants me to know on facebook. But I thought it was so true that I had to use it. God wants you to know that to love is to be vulnerable. Love is the opening of the heart, the welcoming of your beloved. Loving is not secure, authentic loving is risky. Security lies behind the walls of a closed heart. You either invite the union by opening in love, or you secure the isolation by closing down.
Song...... This is a song that was used in the movie "Fireproof". If you have never seen the movie I highly recommend it to you!
Poem....
A PLACE
This is a poem for those who have lost their children.
"A PLACE"
THERE IS A PLACE THAT NO ONE WANTS TO GO
HEARTS ARE BROKEN,TEARS CONTINUE TO FLOW
EMPTINESS,LONLINESS AND AWESOME DESPAIR
EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK THINGS SEEM TO GLARE
ITS A PLACE NO ONE WANTS TO GO
YOUR HEAD SEEMS SO HEAVY,YOUR HEART HURTS SO
NOTHING COMPARES WITH THE DEPTH SO LOW
OF LOSING YOUR CHILDREN TO DEATHS BLOW
DEATH SEEMS TO CLAIM VICTORY EVEN THO WE KNOW
ALL IS SECURE, ENCOMPASSED IN HEAVENS GLOW
DEATH IS A PLACE NO ONE WANTS TO GO
TO ALL DEAR PARENTS, WHEREVER YOU ARE
DON'T LET IT ENCOMPASS YOU, LOOK AFAR
SOMEDAY SOON WE WILL GO WHERE THEY ARE
THERE WILL BE NO MORE TEARS, EMPTINESS NOR DESPAIR
EVERY WRONG WILL SOON BE IN REPAIR
IN ETERNITY NO SEPERATION WILL EVER BE THERE
SO LOOK TO THE LORD, HIS MERCY ENDURES
HIS GRACE ABOUNDS, HIS LOVE IS SO PURE
THEN DEATH WILL BE A PLACE WE WILL ALL WANT TO GO
LIKE THEM WE TOO WILL BASK IN HEAVENS GLOW
LOREN'S MOM 1/03/68 5/29/02
ISACC'S GRANDMOTHER 9/15/98 10/29/00
DESTINY'S GREAT GRANDMOTHER STILLBORN 12/10/00
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Too precious
Verse.... "Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke pon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11:28-30
Thought for today... Continue to praise God even in the rough times. You may not know it now, but God will bless you when the time is right. I am living proof of that. He never leaves you, he is always there for you!
Song..... This is a fantastic video and song!
Poem.... I found this on a website and I thought it was very true! I own no rights to this poem...
Too Precious
No words can take the pain away
of losing your little girl
its hard to understand why she couldn't stay
Maybe she was just to precious for this world
But now shes watching above you
a tiny angel way up high
and youll think about her everytime
you look up at the sky
youll always keep her with you
for shell be held forever dear
and to her you would have been a fantastic mim
a fact thats so very clear
so even thought right now your heart is breaking
i just wish there was more i could do
but im thinking about you
and im sending my love and condolences through.
Thought for today... Continue to praise God even in the rough times. You may not know it now, but God will bless you when the time is right. I am living proof of that. He never leaves you, he is always there for you!
Song..... This is a fantastic video and song!
Poem.... I found this on a website and I thought it was very true! I own no rights to this poem...
Too Precious
No words can take the pain away
of losing your little girl
its hard to understand why she couldn't stay
Maybe she was just to precious for this world
But now shes watching above you
a tiny angel way up high
and youll think about her everytime
you look up at the sky
youll always keep her with you
for shell be held forever dear
and to her you would have been a fantastic mim
a fact thats so very clear
so even thought right now your heart is breaking
i just wish there was more i could do
but im thinking about you
and im sending my love and condolences through.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Daily Inspiration...
Im sorry girls that I havent been doing the daily inspiration posts. I have been trying to catch up on sleep and housework this week (after being out of town for 8 days). Im having a hard time keeping up! :) I promise to try to get back on it Monday..
I pray that you are all finding peace and comfort!!!!
Lynn
I pray that you are all finding peace and comfort!!!!
Lynn
Sunday, January 3, 2010
I will be on vacation...
I will not be posting until January 13th as my family and I are traveling out of state for a modeling competition that my two daughters are in. Im sorry that I wont be available to post during this time. I hope that you can go back through some of my older posts while I am gone and still enjoy a little daily inspiration...
I pray that all of you find peace and comfort!
Cowgirl
I pray that all of you find peace and comfort!
Cowgirl
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