In your charity, please say a prayer for my mom, Lorraine, who turns 80 tomorrow, December 29th. She has terminal cancer and cannot leave her home, but is still independent. So, were bringing her lunch and cake and ourselves over there. She is only five minutes away. Also, praying for her to have a happy death when God calls her to Himself. As much faith as I’d like to believe I am always growing in, this is going to be very, very hard as it gets closer. Thanks.
Praying for your mom. It is never easy to face such a loss.. No matter how we prepare losing our parents even in their old age is hard. I lost my mom in 2000 and I miss her every day.
AN, thanks for letting us know. I will pray for a very happy birthday for your Mom. You are doing a good job of making the best of this situation. Enjoy the celebration!
Prayers for your mum and yourself. God gives us wings when we need them. Trust Him. He knows what He's doing even we don't. Remember He loves you and your mother billion times more than you love each other. He will take care of you both in ways you can't even imagine.
You know I have lost many loved ones down the years including my mother and father, brothers and sister. Looking back on it all , although there is very real deep pain and grief there is also real growth and healing. Death is just as natural and necessary as birth and its own way just as much to be celebrated. The veil between this world and the next really is what it says, a veil. If eel this especially at Christmas times when lost ones I rediscover are not so lost at all. They love us more, much , much more then they did while living and take a very real interest in our little goings on down here on Earth.
Wishing your mother a Happy Birthday. Let us pray Our Father who art in heaven, on this day 8O years ago you granted a little beautiful baby girl Lorraine to her family, today she is a mother, grandmother and aunty to many. I thank you and grlorify your name for those many wonderful years you have granted her. Jesus tells us his children in John 14:13 "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son". In Jesus name we bring Lorraine to the throne of grace and ask for sovereign mercy that Our Heavenly Father may be glorfied and for the salvation of souls. In Matthew 18:19-20, Jesus says, " Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” In Jesus name I pray, God be glorified always. Amen.
At one point I though of death in this way, after reading scriptures I slightly changed that perspective. Adam, the first man, lived to be 930 years old (Genesis 5:5). .....Enoch's son, Methuselah, died at 969 (Genesis 5:27). Methuselah's grandson Noah, ten generations after Adam, lived to be 950 (Genesis 9:29). Jesus said, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24).
Psalm 103:15 …14For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust. 15As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field; 16when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more. 1 Peter 1:24 23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.…
Prayers for you both! I did an interview with my Grandmother right before she passed. I asked her sooooo many questions about her childhood and growing up and early marriage. It is a delight to listen to after 30 years of her passing. She is alive and engaged in these interviews and a wealth of family history of Ireland was shared. Just a thought. And it's a blessing for you to have her voice archived for eternity. God bless!
Thank you, Padraig. I am starting to understand this as time goes on. I will reflect on what you wrote here.
