Posted by Rose
on February 19, 2009, 11:19 am, in reply to "Re: Almost three years"
208.48.154.67
Patti...
Trish and Debra....ladies I know....sometimes the weeping cannot be stopped..we are mothers...we have lost part of ourselves...I know I sound repetitive...I can only say that I have had an awakening..I have always believed in God, thought I was a good person, etc. I studied the Bible for a long time as part of a Christian Church for 15 years. prior to that I was raised Catholic. The few months before Dave died, i was floundering around not really committed to anything...torn away from God by all the trappings this world has to offer. The day that I was waiting for the ride to the hospital where Dave had been taken I felt a lightening bolt go through me. I didn't even know yet that Dave had passed, but I felt it. and with that feeling...I knew, yes, I knew from God i believe that my life would change forever. Not only in the sense that I would lose my son, but that I HAD to change my life. that this loss would catapult me into something bigger than myself. I realized right away what that was..that I had to not only believe what I thought I believed, but live it to my fullest and change. God allows things for a reason and for me, I know what that reason is..All I can tell you that in my deepest hours of despair I count on what I know is true. Christ was resurrected from the dead and we will all be also. We are human, we only can relate to this time on this earth and it seems so long, but to God it is not long...This world is full of tragedy and heartbreak, just look around..it's all over the place...I have talked to counselors, etc. and no one can give me the hope that God can give me...I remember the first group I went to and they kept mentioning.."you have to have hope", I finally asked what that hope was? Certainly, David wouldn't suddenly appear, after all, that would be what I wanted in this life. So, I shared with them what I knew that hope was..Quite a few people were in tears..some just stared at me...nonetheless, I felt I had to share it. Please read this from Corinthians, i am sure you all already know it, but it helps remind me of what is to come...it is just one of the scriptures that i lean on when I allow myself to fall.. I hope it helps you..I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."[g]
55"Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?"[h] 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Yes..ladies..death, which is something of the evil one, not God, will be swallowed up and will not exist anymore....yes...we will see our children again...
Message Thread:
« Back to thread