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Oh Lord I thought you were my friend! And He is! What is this ?

 
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:37 pm    Post subject: Oh Lord I thought you were my friend! And He is! Reply with quote
Oh Lord I thought you were my friend! And He is! But while watching two of my closest earthly friends (Dad & Mom) at the same time go through brain cancer and the other deminita Parkinson's - then with my (3) close friends my age moving because Conoco and other reasons, I just wondered how I would make it. My church was going through another split and my business was taking the worst hit of all times. Oh Lord, I thought you were my friend. And He is!

Living many years owning a flower shop I had worked many funerals right with the families. They will never know how I would cry after helping them, when the door closed at my shop. Even once while delivering a casket piece for a boy the age of my son, my legs totally gave out while I was trying to place the flowers in the room. (The floral books tell how to help greiving families and that we are to be strong for them ) You see this boy would come spend the night and I would step over him on Saturday mornings after ball games. But even with this said - I know now it took going through the rough myself to really feel the pain and cry out to the Father with everything in me for others.

I would have to say when the Bible says God is love. He really is.

I was raised in a very religious home but really never experienced the love of God until my early thirties. It was at an aglow meeting I found out our God is a God we can talk too. In fact, I may never know why everything happened the way it did but I know this, I could not have come out of the greif without Him. When I realized God was all I had for help, I found He was all I needed. He never left me, just waited for me to let Him hold me and comfort me. When God lifted the pain of grief, at first I thought how did you do it Lord. Had I just cried all the tears I had and none left? But no, it was not that. It was a peace not even I can explain - a love that is indiscribable - and yes joy did flood my soul. Had anything changed? No! Just a total release of everything to Him.

Each person must work through their pain and even those with cancer must hurt, knowing those they leave will miss them so much. My prayer for each one on this forum is to know God, His Son Jesus and the comfort of the Holy Spirit. For me, it took a months for the release to Him and a few more years before I could revisit the events.

Above all, my prayer is Lord - show your people your Glory in how to rid our lives of this terrible disease.

Sincerely,
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