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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 7/26/2004 6:06 AM (GMT -6) |   | "... Life's made for losses and crosses and crowns."
My mother, born in '26, wrote many poems we discovered under her bed. Perhaps among them was a poem who's last line is the 'Subject' for this thread. (also above)
>I finally found the poem online, with the author's name--posted below!<
I put it on this forum ("problem of evil"/theonomy) because I want to bear witness that this thread represents something modern, and not something enduring in Christianity. Mom who lived through the depression, who's father knew Indians to come to the door in Kansas where he was born (three years after Col. Custer's 'last stand'), accepted death as something horible but within God's control. She mourned separation, but rejoiced in the union in Christ she enjoyed with her 'absent' parents. She knew, and wrote, that "Death is the light turning out, because the 'Day' has come."
"Along with its ups,
in spite of its downs,
Life's made for losses
and crosses
and crowns."
(Matthew 16:24)
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 7/26/2004 6:33 AM (GMT -6) | | Its the being born under her bed that we can't figure.
BTW, here's a church bulletin blooper:
The extra grey hymnals have been traded with one copy each of the green and blus song books, in order to prevent the blind and cumsy gropping between our legs.
(From then on all the blind and clumsy had to sit in the back and grope...  )
But, lets stay on point! (Unless you disagree with her poem--but then you'd post an arguement.)
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 7/26/2004 6:45 AM (GMT -6) | | What is suffering in God's economy -- in his redemptive plan?
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 7/26/2004 6:56 AM (GMT -6) | | Here's the WHOLE poem, along with the real author.
(My copy is in my mom's pencil, on a piece of paper that I plan to keep; she died in '90. Poems close to the heart are precious remembrances of loved ones.)
quote:
Life By Ida M. Peters 1957
Life's made for living
And giving and sharing,
Knowing and showing,
And daring and caring.
Life's made for doing,
Pursuing of dreams,
Sowing and growing,
Whatever the means.
Revealing and feeling,
And finding that you
must learn how to take it,
To make it come true.
Along with its ups,
In spite of its downs,
Life's made of losses,
And crosses and crowns.
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 7/26/2004 7:04 AM (GMT -6) | |
“For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in Him, but also suffer for His sake” (Phil 1:29).
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 7/26/2004 7:07 AM (GMT -6) | |
“Now I rejoice in [my] sufferings [endured] for your sake,” he declares, “ and I complete in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His Body, which is the Church” (Col 1:24).
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 7/26/2004 7:28 AM (GMT -6) | |
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Pray for my Dad.
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www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/a/l/altheway.htm
quote:
"ALL THE WAY MY SAVIOR LEADS ME"
Words: Fanny Crosby, 1875
Music by Robert Lowry
All the way my Savior leads me
What have I to ask beside?
Can I doubt His tender mercy,
Who through life has been my Guide?
Heav’nly peace, divinest comfort,
Here by faith in Him to dwell!
For I know, whate’er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well;
For I know, whate’er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well.
All the way my Savior leads me
Cheers each winding path I tread,
Gives me grace for every trial,
Feeds me with the living Bread.
Though my weary steps may falter
And my soul athirst may be,
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! A spring of joy I see;
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! A spring of joy I see.
All the way my Savior leads me
O the fullness of His love!
Perfect rest to me is promised
In my Father’s house above.
When my spirit, clothed immortal,
Wings its flight to realms of day
This my song through endless ages:
Jesus led me all the way;
This my song through endless ages:
Jesus led me all the way.
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 7/26/2004 7:38 AM (GMT -6) | | www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/s/c/wscatgme.htm
quote:
"WHY SHOULD CROSS AND TRIAL GRIEVE ME?"
Words: Paul Gerhardt, 1653, cento (Warum sollt’ ich mich den grämen)
Music: “Ebeling,” Johann G. Ebeling, 1666
Why should cross and trial grieve me?
Christ is near with His cheer,
Never will He leave me.
Who can rob me of the Heaven
That God’s Son for my own
To my faith hath given?
Though a heavy cross I’m bearing
And my heart feels the smart,
Shall I be despairing?
God, my Helper, Who doth send it,
Well doth know all my woe
And how best to end it.
Hopeful, cheerful, and undaunted
Everywhere they appear
Who in Christ are planted.
Death itself cannot appall them,
They rejoice when the voice
Of their Lord doth call them.
Death cannot destroy forever;
From our fears, cares and tears
It will us deliver.
It will close life’s mournful story,
Make a way that we may
Enter heavenly glory.
What is all this life possesses?
But a hand full of sand
That the heart distresses.
Noble gifts that pall me never
Christ, our Lord, will accord
To His saints forever.
Lord, my Shepherd, take me to Thee.
Thou art mine; I was Thine
Even ere I knew Thee.
I am Thine, for Thou hast bought me;
Lost I stood, but Thy blood
Free salvation bought me.
Thou art mine; I love and own Thee.
Light of Joy, ne’er shall I
From my heart dethrone Thee.
Savior, let me soon behold Thee
Face to face—may Thy grace
Evermore enfold me!
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