| Author | Message | ||
| Tealeaves Registered user Username: Tealeaves Post Number: 240 Registered: 5-2004 |
I received an email from a friend today, and she requests prayer for her friends family for the following... Her friend had a baby 2 months ago, the baby was fine until he got his shots last week, he had a bad reaction, and died Friday. His mother and his aunt were overcome with grief, they disappeared, no one knew where they went until they were hit, coming home, by a semi-truck. The mother was killed instantly, the aunt was flown to a hospital where they are doing a test to confim that she is brain dead, and they will most likely turn off the life support in the next few days. The aunt leaves behind 2 daughters, age 4 and 11, I believe. They are staying with their grandmother. Please play for the grandmother, who has lost both her daughters and her new grandson in this string of events, and is now caring for her grieving grandchildren. They need our prayers. -tanya- | ||
| Pheeki Registered user Username: Pheeki Post Number: 621 Registered: 1-2003 |
I have never heard anything so tragic! I was always afraid of the infant immunizations because my sister-in-law gave me an article about how in post WW2 Japan, we started immunizing their children and SIDS skyrocketed! So consequently, I waited until my kids were toddlers before they got shots...I wanted them to be stronger. Right or wrong, that's what I did. But then compound it with getting hit by a semi-truck...I can't imagine how that Grandmother is coping. | ||
| Jackob Registered user Username: Jackob Post Number: 19 Registered: 7-2005 |
I fully agree with Pheeki, this grandmother needs all our prayers. | ||
| Freeatlast Registered user Username: Freeatlast Post Number: 414 Registered: 5-2002 |
Horror of horrors! These folks are in my prayers. Heaven forbid that I make a single complaint about any aspect of my day today. | ||
| Belvalew Registered user Username: Belvalew Post Number: 634 Registered: 7-2004 |
There are no words, but yes, indeed, there are prayers. This is one of the instances where we have to depend on the Holy Spirit to do the interpreting. I hope the Lord will hold this grieving family so close that they will never doubt God's love through all of this. Belva | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1819 Registered: 3-2004  |
I have put the Grandmother on my prayer list. God will care for her throughtout her grieving and will hold her in his awesome arms. Diana | ||
| Wooliee Registered user Username: Wooliee Post Number: 36 Registered: 6-2005 |
That is the saddest thing I've ever heard! I will definitely be praying for this family. Julie | ||
| Jwd Registered user Username: Jwd Post Number: 80 Registered: 4-2005 |
I'm pushing hard to keep the tears from flowing as I pray for the Compassionate Saviour to embrace this family and those little children with his Healing love and comfort. Beyond words to comprehend - - such pain! Will keep this family in our prayers. One can only cling to the promises at such a time of horrendous grief beyond words! "I AM the Resurrection and the Live." Oh Holy Majesty of Love, come quick. Put an end to such suffering, and take your own home to be with YOU forever, I pray in Jesus name." Jess | ||
| Jwd Registered user Username: Jwd Post Number: 81 Registered: 4-2005 |
There Is No Death Death. There is no death. Not lasting death Like all the temporal things we touch and see. Not like the monuments of stone and steel With which we link the thought that: ìIt shall ever be!î Nor with the projections of our thoughts Of things that we assume last on into the darkened depths Of fathomless Eternity. No. . . We are taught to thus see death (and falsely so,) as we view life, Always from the vantage point of youthÖ As reaching forward, always in laughter and in sunlight With total satisfaction our never-ending emotion. But. . . such is not reality. For all too soon we find that life proves cruel And taunting in itís tangled web of never ending curves Thrown before us without the slightest warning; Nor with wisdom; To help us chart the way. Death . . . This lasting death with which we so identify; ìWhere have you gone?î For at the moment you first appear . . .You thus escape our gaze and disappear As quickly and silently as vapor in the wind. How can this be? ìYou did come . . . Did you not?î The soul inquires. But nay . . . It is a fantasy of rationality. For there is another dimension unknown to man. The existence of which has always been. For that which man declares impossible to know . . . Does not make it so . . on the plane of Godís Reality. Death. There is no death. Only manís misguided fantasy. There only remains a mystic door Through which we pass. The only pain . . . Is from the unexpected and unfinished; For it is to these realities that we tie our love And dreams; . . . And thus, We dread the parting. But death remains a door . . . No more, No less. A door within a garden wall, as hath the poet spoken. And passing through this door . . . It is not what is left that counts upon the scales of time and space; But that dimension . . . Unseen, Unknown, Which beckons from the Realm of Light. A Light . . . The Source of which has never known Beginning. And Whoís existence thus we doubted Because . . . We knew not how to focus on Un-consciousness. Until . . . In laying down our robe, We stepped beyond; To reach And grasp The Ultimate Reality Of our Eternal Being. Given by Spirit | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 2476 Registered: 12-2003  |
I'm also praying that God will minister His healing to this family. Colleen | ||
| Tealeaves Registered user Username: Tealeaves Post Number: 241 Registered: 5-2004 |
This weekend our church had a speaker, the writer of the book "When i Lay my Isaac Down." If you haven't read it, you should check it out. This talk gave me just a little perspective on how one can emotionally survive a tragedy such as this one we have been praying about with the death of this infant, his mother, and his aunt. The book is about the author, her husband, and her son who was a smart, sweet, intelligent boy who went to naval academy and then the Navy's top diving academy. He married a Christian woman with 2 children from a previous marriage. The ex-husband was trouble, and one night, his parents got the call that he had been arrested for the first-degree murder of the ex-husband. The book is about what it is like to give your son over to God in such terrible circumstances, and live daily with the horror of such a tragedy. It is about how we, as Christians are to support each other when such things happen. I highly recommend this book. It gives a glimpse of the true strength of God to lift us up when life seems impossible. -tanya- | ||
| Lydell Registered user Username: Lydell Post Number: 710 Registered: 7-2000 |
And this family is only one of so many in our country today who have such horrendous stories to tell. Keep the victims of hurricane Katrina in your prayers. These folks too have had their lives turned upside down, or totally ripped apart, family members gone....or missing and they can find no word about them. Many many of these people are just drifting right now with no clue what they can do in the next hour, let alone tomorrow. It's a sad situation most certainly. |
