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God's Love and a Father's Tears
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jusbaloo Junior Member
since 2003-05-25
Posts 10nw illinois |
God's Love and a Father's Tears In September 1998, I came to a new understanding of the poem, "Footprints in the Sand". Up until then I had always liked this piece of poetic work, but I had never really understood it. This was about to change through a very painful experience. It was on the 16th of that month that my son, Marcus Edwin was stillborn. When I was first told he would be stillborn my heart crumbled and my world collapsed. I begged God to give him just one chance at life. I would carry him if need be. I pleaded with my son to please just reach out and take my hand, to not leave me now! I walked around in a haze-filled cloud of agony and hopelessness. I was angry at God, so I shouted at Him, "WHY, why him? Take my life so that he may live. God, I hate You! Don't take my son, please, dear God, let him live." But it was not to be. My dear sweet son would never draw a breath. "God how could you leave me now, when I need You the most?" After he was born by C-section, the nurses on the labor and delivery floor finally had to send me home to clean up. It was all automatic; I really don't remember much of the day-to-day act of living for that period. I do remember getting home and looking on the wall at a plaque with the poem "Footprints" on it. For some reason, I read it in a whole new way that day, it was as if God were there with me sharing my heartache and grief. It occurred to me then that as much as I loved my unborn son, God loved His son, Jesus, just as much. Oh how He must have wept to watch His son die on a cross. As I fell to my knees, broke down, and wept, a strange sense of peace came over me. It was then I realized just how true the line from the poem really was. "My precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you." Since that day I have faced many trials, but in each one I know I am not alone. The memory of my son and the Blessed Shepherd watch over me and guide me. God's love and a father's tears keep watch over my heart. |
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mysticpoe Senior Member
since 2003-02-28
Posts 883 |
Although this is not a poem, I'm very glad you posted it. I thank you for your strength in faith. Others who read this will benefit from that precious love you have found. Thanks. The best, wayne If nothing is something then everything is our thoughts and feelings and all that exists. |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Ray~ Your piece grabbed my heart and squeezed~ Real hard~  *Huglets* to you~  ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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