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From: DONNA DUNCAN

To: Grief_Group@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 2:58 PM

Subject: RE: [Grief_Group] Why today?

Hello all.

We are quickly approaching the 1^st anniversary of Bryan’s death. They just finish his headstone and it is in place. That totally knocked the wind from my sails but it is accomplished. I am doing better I guess. It still grabs me at the most inopportune time. Like in church today. I am working through it but it is still hard. I was told yesterday had it already been a year…and I had to say yes. It was the longest and shortest year of my life. And the hardest. Praying for better ones though. For my husband and my daughter as well. It is hard because no one has remembered the date. We are by our selves. I think how people can forget July 7^th. But then again this is our tragedy not theirs.

Hope all is well with each one of you.

Still praising Him through the storm

D.

Donna Duncan

  "Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not grow faint".

                Isaiah 40:31

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From: Grief_Group@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Grief_Group@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of J Hum
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 9:50 AM
To: grief group
Subject: [Grief_Group] Why today?

Maybe you feel a bit like Jeremiah?

Lamentations 3:17 I have been deprived of peace;
       I have forgotten what prosperity is.

 18 So I say, "My splendor is gone
       and all that I had hoped from the LORD."

 19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
       the bitterness and the gall.

 20 I well remember them,
       and my soul is downcast within me.

So then a great question arises: why? Why go on trusting, why go on caring, why try?

Because verses 21-26 are on the way...

 21 Yet this I call to mind
       and therefore I have hope:

 22 Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
       for his compassions never fail.

 23 They are new every morning;
       great is your faithfulness.

 24 I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion;
       therefore I will wait for him."

 25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,
       to the one who seeks him;

 26 it is good to wait quietly
       for the salvation of the LORD.

Last week I was running in a race to raise money for breast cancer research. It was a 3 mile run and about every mile they had brought in cheer leading squads to cheer on the runners. Just about the time us runners were starting to get tired and those feelings of quit came to mind, up ahead there were cheers of support and hope that the race was about over, it was about accomplished, we were doing fine, we were "winning."

Sometimes we need someone to cheer us on; sometimes God calls us to be the ones to cheer on the others.

This morning God's mercies are new. His love waits to refresh us and help us finish the race.

God's peace and love be yours in abundance.

John

 

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