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I could not have said it any better than Lisa did in this message. Yes, John, your post touched my heart and made me think. Thank You and thanking God for always being that constant in our lives whether the sun is shining in our world or whether the dark clouds overshadow us. God's love remains constant and strong and always there to help us.
Betty
----- Original Message -----From: Lisa HicksSent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:01 PMSubject: Re: [Grief_Group] Hi All
John,I hope you and your family are doing well. When I read your email I thought Praise God. It is such a testimony to how God works in our lives and puts the right the people at the right time exactly where we need them to be.Today is Dad's birthday. It has been the easiest "holiday" so far to get through. I have been thinking about how far I have come in the grieving process (alot of my progress is because of you and this site) and how long it took me to get where I am all day.Reading your post on prayer reiterated everything I have been thinking aobut. I had to post.The times I have felt closest to God, like I was literally being held in His arms were in my darkest hours. The times when there is nothing else you can do but get on your knees and sometimes flat on your face and give it all to Him. Those are also the deepest prayers I have ever prayed. I still remember them and how I felt and how in that instant He came to me and comforted me and helped me back up.I am praying for you and your prayer life. I am also praying that everyone here finds comfort and strength in Him. That everyone who is grieving or is going through trials in their life will fill His comfort and strenght. Even in our darkest hours all we have to do is get on our knees and call out His name and He will come.God Bless you and your family,LisaJ Hum <jhum07@yahoo.com> wrote:Greetings Group,God's peace and blessing be with you all.As God has called me to a deeper place of prayer (please pray that I get there!), I recognize how prayer is based on life circumstances. Inevitably, we pray about those things around us, things that bother us, challenges we face, challenges family members face, etc. Then we tend to stretch out from there and pray for church, community, city, world, and so on.As hard as this may sound, I've found that the deepest and most profound of my prayers have come out of those times when I was really struggling; times when I hurt the worst, felt the most frustrated, or fearful, or just plain lost on the way. In fact, in the "good times," it's almost easy to miss good prayer altogether.My word of encouragement, then, is to not allow those hard times to pass without recognition of the deep and precious work God is doing in our lives. God is not absent at those times, but calling us deeper, closer, more assuredly into his loving arms.Is the journey hard? Know that God not only hears your prayers at this time, but is close to all that call upon his name.May the captivating love of God, the fellowship with the Spirit, and the awesome forgiveness and favor of Jesus Christ be with you all this day.John
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