Death Makes You Think

So many fallen soldiers I hear. I wonder is my time near. I'm older now. I think about "how." How will my life end? Will I be alone, driving, with my husband? Will they find me in the shower? Will they find me asleep? Will they fix me up before the paramedics come to take me away?

All the things we think of when we are alive, but once we're dead it doesn't matter I'll just be dead.

Think I'll just focus on living life like it was my last day, being careful to say my "I Love Yous" to family and friends, working toward getting my house in order. . . My Will, My Wishes.

Thank you, God, for your goodness and mercy while I am still living.

Today My Grief Let Up!

Congratulations! That is not for you, though, today maybe your day, but that "Congratulations" is to the part of me that felt like it was stuck in quick sand for the last 4 months.

I can see clearly. I Feel great. My heart springs forth in Joy. Haven't felt that in months. I'm not sad. I feel energetic. I feel driven.

God, thank you, for the promises of your word. My thoughts of my mother now are rejoicing. We all are dying daily. It is a part of life. I thought the pain would never go away.

I don't feel like crying. I don't feel anxious, or angry. I feel LOVE. She loved me and I loved her.

Rest In Peace, mother

I Was Afraid of Dying

I have had many people die. I have lost count.
I must admit when people die this question always comes
up: “Did they make it into heaven?”

That is where I want to go when I die.
My grand parents wanted to go there too. I read in the Bible that
The streets are paved with Gold, that there is no need of light
Because the glory of God is so bright that it illuminates heaven.

It’s funny how when you hear of someone dying, it invokes
thoughts, questions and God. I sometimes reflect on the type of life that
person lived, who they are leaving behind.

Death makes me think of things I wouldn’t otherwise
entertain. Death is a reality. You live and you die. I have always
feared death. Why do we fear anything? Because we don’t know what to
expect. It is unfamiliar.

Death of religious people who suffer and die have caused me to ask: Why such suffering on their part?

What I do know, people don’t die and come back to life. The body goes into the
grave and eventually turns back to what it was created to be originally
and that is dust. All that will remain is bone.

The life that was breathed into the body and made it a living soul
will leave, will return to the giver of life. . . God.

Now what? Read what the Book of John, Chapter 11, verse 25,26 says:

Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life.[a] Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha? ”

A lot of people want answers but they would rather look
and accept and believe anything but the Words God gave us
to govern our lives by the promises God made.

God’s instruction book has influenced even the laws we live by
in our society today.

Why I am no longer afraid of dying? Because those words in the book of John
are my comfort, that when this life is finished here on earth
I will live again because of my belief, because of my choices.

You too can have that assurance. You can choose to worry about dying,
leaving this world behind and everything in it, or you can
embrace those words for your life.

God Bless!

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Death Is Nothing but a Moment's Rest

(Published by permission of Nicholas Gordon)

Death is nothing but a moment's rest

Until the Second Coming of the Lord

When He shall gather to Him of the best

To take them to the place of their reward.

I've felt the power of Jesus in my soul

Shining like a golden sun within,

Melting my hard heart to make me whole,

Burning out the remnants of my sin.

I've felt Him work within me, so I know

The glory that will come when I awake.

I'll sleep just like a child who'll homeward go,

And in my dreams of love great pleasure take.

So do not mourn my death, and do not grieve.

The Lord will come for me: This I believe.

Survive Love Grief

by Molly Barrow

In everyone's life, there is the one love affair that in spite of giving all that you have to the relationship, your partner still breaks your heart. The sharp jab to your belly and excruciating pain of abandonment is unique in its ability to incapacitate you and make you do regrettable blunders. The desperate attempts to save what you alone believe is a relationship worth saving produces humiliating encounters with your ex-love that hurt you even more. If your beloved happily moves on to a new love, you are left alone to wither and cry without the benefit of your lovers healing embrace. What can you possibly do to feel better? Here are five techniques to help you survive love grief.

1. Keep the Love

You do not have to stop loving someone just because you do not see your partner any more. Even if the relationship is over, the time you spent together will always be a part of your life. The good quality love that you gave was a beautiful part of you and you can keep warm memories of the good times for the rest of your life - even if he or she acted badly. The worst pain is trying to force yourself to stop loving someone before you are ready to let go. So, don't.

2. Stop Trying to Control

You cannot control what someone else feels or does in the relationship. You can control the kind of partner that you select, and how much you are willing to sacrifice for that partner. The more obsessive and controlling you are in a dying relationship, the longer you will cling to the crumbs that someone tosses you. Sometimes you have to take some humiliating moments as you wrestle with letting go. Sometimes a clean break can be very harsh if you have isolated yourself from your friends. No one should take verbal or physical abuse in the name of love, but sometimes you have to stay longer than you should, just to begin to restructure your life.

3. What Are the Odds

Can you meet someone in high school, marry and stay together forever? You can, but it happens rarely these days. You have probably broken it off with other people in the past that you had grown tired of and perhaps, they suffered. You may have felt badly about hurting them, but you were over them and moved on. The difference here is only who walked away first. Most relationships fail, until you find the Right One.

4. Better to Have Loved

When you are ninety years old, would you want to say you played it safe and never took the risk of getting hurt? You have known love. That is a success in life. It does not matter if you were treated rudely, had your heart walked on or someone cheated on you. That is a story about them, not you. You loved and no matter how it ended, be proud that you are capable of caring.

5. It Only Hurts For a Long Time

If you have truly loved someone with all your heart and lost before, then you know it may take six months to a year to recover from the grief. If it is your first broken heart, it may seem like the pain will never end. However, it will. Go to a therapist as soon as you break up and make it easier on yourself for the first month or two. Everyday you go through the motions and after several months, you realize that you forgot the pain for a little while. At that moment, you will realize that you will survive this broken heart and learn to love again.

Dr. Molly Barrow, Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, http://www.drmollybarrow.com, American Psychological Association, is host of The Dr. Molly Barrow Show on Progressive Radio Network, author of Matchlines for Singles, Matchlines Relationship Quiz, Malia & Teacup Awesome African Adventure and Malia & Teacup Out on a Limb, http://www.maliaandteacup.com and quoted in O, The Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, Newsday, New York Times, CNN.com, Match.com and has appeared in films and television news.

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To Lose Someone Who's Loved You All Your Life

(Nicholas Gordon by Permission)

To lose someone who's loved you all your life,

Having held you long against the darkness,

And felt the press of friends upon your sadness,

Need cutting through your torment like a
knife . . .

Kindness is a sign of inner plenty:

Yours does much to mitigate my pain.

Of grief comes neither clarity nor gain

Unless friends fill its passion with their beauty.

Wondering About Heaven?

I know that it is a place everyone wants to go who feels they have been good, done good toward others, thereby earning the right to entrance into God’s heaven. Claire gives us something to think about.  

Learning to See Heaven –

By Claire Vorster

    'I have come home at last! This is my real country. I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...' CS Lewis, The Last Battle.

Do you ever think you were made for another time, or at least a simpler time? To put it another way, do you know that feeling you get when you have had the most perfect holiday and then you have to go back to reality? When you have been somewhere where your soul finds peace and then you have to leave.

It's almost like we get a taste or a whisper of another country. Another, better place that calls to us. Maybe that's why the song 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' is still so popular... where troubles melt like lemon drops, that's where you'll find me. I was thinking about that other country when I wrote this:

Whispers

Are You watching from the Heavens,

Are You higher than the sky?

Are You looking down on us,

Or are You outside of our time?

Can You hear the prayer I'm praying,

Can You see inside my heart?

Can I find You in this moment,

Or am I wishing on a star?

Higher than a star can climb,

And deeper than the night,

I hear whispers of another land,

That's hidden from my sight.

Where angels kiss the rain away,

And darkness turns to light the day,

And we will dance while children play,

Through the rainbows...

And I, oh I, I'm coming back to You, my Lord,

I'm coming back to You, my Lord.

You have always been beside me,

You have always been my friend,

You were there at the beginning,

And in You there is no end.

I can hear the sound of thunder,

I can feel the ocean breeze,

I can see right through the rainbow,

Past the forest and the trees.

And I, oh I, I'm coming back to You, my Lord,

I'm coming back to You, my Lord.

    'If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.' CS Lewis

Why not listen out for those whispers this week?

Claire Vorster is a professional writer with 20 years successful Corporate writing experience, both in the US and the UK. She specializes in inspirational and motivational writing and editing for Corporate clients, magazines, newspapers and online markets.

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