tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post482601501192407726..comments2024-01-11T16:41:01.570-05:00Comments on The Real Life of a Red Head: My Prayer For MercyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-41215691243571096522012-07-22T13:04:36.478-04:002012-07-22T13:04:36.478-04:00I have been reading your blog for awhile. I am thi...I have been reading your blog for awhile. I am thinking about you, Joshua and your family for the next few weeks. Thank you for sharing our grief, and your growth. God bless.Mary Matsunohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11899604424559538094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-19628069233069897142012-07-19T19:27:25.354-04:002012-07-19T19:27:25.354-04:00No words my friend. Just many tears and a HUGE {{...No words my friend. Just many tears and a HUGE {{{HUG}}}.Stefeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04278714232697499851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-4604427411841272292012-07-19T13:42:12.279-04:002012-07-19T13:42:12.279-04:00My heart truly hurts for you Jill and your family....My heart truly hurts for you Jill and your family. Thank you for sharing your feelings both good and bad with us the last two years. Just reading your blog has helped me with my grief in losing my baby girl. I pray for peace for you in the next coming months.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08375667065756503864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-61964324081243621222012-07-18T23:59:21.238-04:002012-07-18T23:59:21.238-04:00Eva collapsed in her daddy's hands. She was sm...Eva collapsed in her daddy's hands. She was smiling at her daddy when her heart ruptured. I often think that her daddy's face became the face of Jesus in that moment. <br /><br />Your Joshua saw your face all the way to the end.<br /><br />Thank you for sharing your love and hope of Joshua.<br /><br />EmEmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11910371746336686970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-58276675628088276532012-07-18T21:33:28.926-04:002012-07-18T21:33:28.926-04:00Jill, this was beautiful....and I cried for the hu...Jill, this was beautiful....and I cried for the hundred millionth time over that sweet, beautiful son. I think as time passes, the clarity of God's amazing grace though out these last few years will really come into focus. I am so so sorry that I had to get ugly with "Dawn of the Dead". I'm proud of you. Joshua is proud of you. You are far more of a class act than I will ever be (simply because I will battle with trolls. I can't help it if I expect people to behave not he internet like they would in person).McEngland like the McCountryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14346771516168918953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-73859443970225699362012-07-18T21:28:55.180-04:002012-07-18T21:28:55.180-04:00Oh wow, Dawn, tell me more about what your message...Oh wow, Dawn, tell me more about what your message board has to say about circumcision. I'm sure you guys each have far more access to sound medical research data bases and far more medical training than Joshua's doctors and nurses. Seriously, Dawn. I hope the gates of hell burn your evil hands, you cruel and black-hearted excuse for a human.McEngland like the McCountryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14346771516168918953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-41158197663185906222012-07-18T13:10:45.288-04:002012-07-18T13:10:45.288-04:00Jill --Thank you for sharing this story once again...Jill --Thank you for sharing this story once again. Tears roll for your loss, for precious Joshua and his wise eyes, and for the tender & mysterious mercies of God.<br />I love you. XO~MaryAuntie Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06610977491641901739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-55425046863922326812012-07-18T13:06:50.140-04:002012-07-18T13:06:50.140-04:00Bless you Jill for your compassionate reply to an ...Bless you Jill for your compassionate reply to an ugly and untrue comment. You walk in a grace & beautycaring that can only come from God.Auntie Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06610977491641901739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-48261675934110351732012-07-18T12:31:11.311-04:002012-07-18T12:31:11.311-04:00Thank you for sharing this. I know that it was har...Thank you for sharing this. I know that it was hard to share that and thank you for sharing that. I hope that you have a good day. If you need anything, Let me know!Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07971280212632871066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-90480234656563975892012-07-18T11:47:44.368-04:002012-07-18T11:47:44.368-04:00Dawn,
What are you trying to accomplish with your...Dawn,<br /><br />What are you trying to accomplish with your comments like this? <br /><br />I want you to know that your words have absolutely no power over me. <br /><br />I pray that you find some happiness in your life and some compassion in your heart.Jill https://www.blogger.com/profile/05480998926938144262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-17730772502786572492012-07-18T11:13:47.084-04:002012-07-18T11:13:47.084-04:00Big California hugs to you my friend!
xoxoBig California hugs to you my friend!<br />xoxoTammie Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09429806191157794155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-88053872346308774832012-07-18T10:43:21.476-04:002012-07-18T10:43:21.476-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14356680075327692910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-57406954110011868292012-07-18T10:08:27.643-04:002012-07-18T10:08:27.643-04:00Oh, Jill. So often I read what you write and your ...Oh, Jill. So often I read what you write and your experiences during the time that you had Joshua and in the time since his passing and it is spot-on how I have felt too since the passing of our Lincoln. <br /><br />Please know that even though I do not know you personally, I think of you and your family and pray for peace and continued healing. Thank you for sharing this post with us.JoEllenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13836120905213535030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2557719621411312017.post-2197503575194375842012-07-18T09:44:50.087-04:002012-07-18T09:44:50.087-04:00Psalm 31:7-10
7I will be glad and rejoice in Your ...Psalm 31:7-10<br />7I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy,<br />For You have considered my trouble;<br />You have known my soul in adversities,<br />8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy;<br />You have set my feet in a wide place.<br />9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;<br />My eye wastes away with grief,<br />Yes, my soul and my body!<br />10 For my life is spent with grief,<br />And my years with sighing;<br />My strength fails because of my iniquity,<br />And my bones waste away.<br /><br /><br />I have hesitated to give you scripture for a few reasons. One being, because when I was hurting so much, I didn't want to hear it. I really didn't. I didn't want to hear that God understood, that He was a good God, etc. Because I couldn't reconcile that with how I felt in losing Michael. <br />Two, because I think you know as much of these scriptures as I do by now. <br /><br />But I remembered this one. When Michael passed away, and I could open a Bible, I poured over the Psalms, and Job. To try to understand...to voice my pain to a God I was beginning to know more. <br /><br />God, in His wisdom, gives us the words of David, all the pain-filled ones, the desperate pleas for help, for rescue, for healing...And the victorious ones as well. How thankful I am, that our God is big enough and God enough to handle us when we're raging, when we're questioning, when we're truly seeking in all it's ugliness. <br /><br />Proverbs 3:3<br />3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you;<br />Bind them around your neck,<br />Write them on the tablet of your heart.<br /><br />I don't know what it's like to watch precious life slip into the arms of Jesus. When I saw Michael, he was already gone. But I remember the feeling of sitting alone and people in and out of a room, while part of you is frozen and watching and the other is on her knees in wordless prayers. <br />I also know what its like to pray for something and God to answer it...yet not the way I meant it to be answered. (When my Dad passed away in front of me). <br /><br />I don't know where I'm going with this, but you know my heart grieves with you, and along side you, Jill. Oh, how I wish this path wasn't ours to take, but in Gods wisdom, we do. We are. Have I ever thanked you for speaking, blogging, being honest about this path? <br /><br />Be well, my friend, my sister. God is enough. <br /><br />PeggyPeggyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14842991362455589777noreply@blogger.com