Excerpts

I love God but does God love me?

Hard Times

Have you ever felt like the whole world was on your shoulders?
Like everyone was out to get you and trying to run you over?

No matter what you do, it always turns out wrong.
Everything around you keeps falling as you try desperately to hold on.

Everybody seems to be going up, while you keep heading down.
Everyone has something to smile about, while you wear a frown.

They all seem to be doing well and climbing up to the top.
They all get to drink from the cup of success, but you never get a drop.

Nothing ever seems to go your way and you don't even know the meaning of the word Luck?
No matter how much you scrape and save, something always comes along and takes your last buck.

Well.. just remember the man who complained about not being able to buy a new pair of shoes, until he met a man with no feet.
The girl who complained about having to wear glasses, until she
bumped into a blind man on the street.

The boy complained of having to eat his vegetables when there are kids starving in the world with nothing to eat.
The woman who complained about her baby crying all night, while some are born never to speak.

Your life may not be as good as others, but remember that there is always someone worse off than you.
So instead of complaining about what you don't have, take the time to thank the Lord for what you do.

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DEATH

Will the pain ever leave me, will the hurt ever cease?

The feeling that we feel when a loved one is deceased.

The tears that cannot be held back but so openly flow.

The feeling of complete emptiness that you feel from head to toe.

I have not lost a relative or a friend but surely a piece of myself.

People gathered to offer me sympathy, but they had no idea of how I felt.

Losing someone who was so dear and close to me.

Trying hard to be strong but feeling complete misery.

Never again seeing their smile or being able to share again the fun we had.

Wishing that I could just take back some of the things I said.

There are so many things I wish we could have done that we never had time to do.

Like taking the time out to just spend a little bit more time with you.

All the things that I thought we had a lifetime to do.

Now I must convince myself that I will not be doing them with you.

There were sometimes when you made me mad and got on my last nerve.

But it was nothing compared to all the good times that the two of us shared.

Losing a loved one is such a hurtful pain.

To say how you feel, one is not able to explain.

Knowing that you have lost something that can never

be replaced.

Feeling an empty loss that no amount of time can ever erase.

The only comfort that is given is knowing of their final

resting place.

Will be with the Almighty One, The Lord... Our Grace.