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Fran Lovelace (Port Arthur, TX)
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Dennis, Teresa and Family,
I am so sorry for your familie's loss. What a beautiful girl. I just pray that God will bring you peace and help you during this difficult time. You will be with Emily again one day and know that she is your angel watching over you as you have watched over her. She has no more pain.
With love. Fran
Saturday, January 16, 2010 |
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Beulah (Fillingim) Grant (Sour Lake, TX)
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Teresa and Family,
I was so sorry to hear of your beautiful Emily passing. I know that she is in the arms of Jesus. I will be keeping ya'
ll in my thoughts and prayers.
Saturday, January 16, 2010 |
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Liz Lee (Beaumont, TX)
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Dear Bereaved Parents, Cahliks,
Please know that you are being thought about and prayed with by a family who does not know you personally but has prayed with you during your daughter-s illness and who knows too well the bereavement of burying our own teenage child.
It is so out of the natural order of expectations; so gnawing at your future; so impossible to change. As King David suffered the death of his child in Old Testament days, we hear the Psalmist say: the child cannot come to me, but I can go to where s/he has gone. I pray that your thoughts will level off at willful joyful recall; that the images in your head will be of Emily as lively and warm, not of her cold frame.
As believers we know life here is a vapor, and eternity with the Lord is beyond compare. We here do not understand young people lingering, suffereing; or young people being snatched away from us suddenly. We feel a hole in ourselves, larger than our child. That hole can be filled. The Comforter will soothe you and never leave you. The Holy Spirit will uphold you, sustain you, and help you grow accustomed to a "new normal." Not what was your normal ever again, but a different normal, in time.
It is said that time heals the bereaved. I prefer to say that we are restored in time according to what we do with our burden of bereavement. It took me a while to actually fully let go of my grief and lay it at the foot of the cross and leave it there, because for a while I thought the Lord surely must need me to pick it back up again and help Him to carry it. How wrong that was of me.
May the Lord use this period in your life, use the testimony of Emily-s life, and use your future for the on-going work of His kingdom. Praises that Emily is alive forevermore with Jesus.
Our children are not lost from us.
We know exactly where they are.
In sympathy,
Liz Lee
(Vickey Gaulding is my dear friend.)
Friday, January 15, 2010 |
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Judy Kopp, Lorri Baker, Sally Gallioti (Edinburg, TX)
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Teresa and Dennis,
Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this most difficult time.
Friday, January 15, 2010 |
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Kim, Michael and Megan Haller (Anchorage, AK)
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Our deepest love and sympathy at this time of sorrow. Emily has taken the next step to eternal life. It is the pain of separation, unfulfilled hopes and dreams that hurt so much. She will always be remembered. We are so grateful that Mary Beth and Michael were able to come down to see her. We wish we could have done more.
Friday, January 15, 2010 |
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