Tribute To Life & Death of My Loved Ones

It is amazing how much comfort you find in knowing that all that happens is by the hand of Him who fashioned us. After all, it is only because of Him that I am here today. It is only because of Him that we have any hope of salvation, that we can stand fully justified, freely forgiven and wholly pure before a righteous and awesome God. Isn't it amazing?

In Memory of those who left before us, this is to keep them in our hearts

 Rose Keet

Lilet Santos

Connie Mathews (tameka's mom)

Ellyou Vermeulen (Kim&Olivia's mom)

Mr Falken

D.O.D 01/07/2012

Mrs Falken

D.O.D 24/06/2012

Jermaine Williams

D.O.B: 13/12/1983

D.O.D : 09/08/2012

In Memory 

of

Nizaam Falken

D.O.B

D.O.D

a poem dedicated to him

If I Die Young

Don't cry for me
As I won't be here
To dry them for you.
Just send me away
With the words
Of  a love song.
I've had enough time
It may seem it was
Short lived
But its all the words
I've said before
If I die young
Don't cry for me.
Lord please comfort
The ones left behind.
I know its  a life
Short lived,
But I think
I've had enough time.
Your tears will dry
I'll see you smile.
Don't cry for me
Because when
I felt you
Hold my hand
I've felt peace.
If I die young
Send me away with
 a love song.
Lord let me be
 a rainbow
After the rain,
I want to shine
Down on my mother,
That she would
Know I'm safe with you,
 when she stands under
 my colors, oh well.
This life isn't always
As we thought
It be,
Its not gray,
But she  buries her  baby.
If I die young
Just know
That you've loved me
And God has come
To take me home,
The life you've
Shown me.
My short lived life,
But I've had enough time.
As swift as  a dove
I've flown my wings,
Go with peace and love.
Gather up your tears.

Grant Eternal Rest, O Lord

The Lord is my shepherd: I shall not want. In green pastures he gives me repose. Beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right path for his name's sake. Even if I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side. Your shepherd's staff and rod give me comfort. You spread a table before me in the sight of my foes; You anoint my head with oil, and my cup overflows. Goodness and kindness will follow me all the days of my life. And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come. --Psalm 23

Nothing wounds the human heart more deeply than the loss of a loved one. Does God care? "The Lord is my shepherd." Even as we walk in the shadow of death, God is at our side. Beyond death is an unknown life, where God, in goodness and kindness, welcomes us to dwell in his house for years to come. We think death ends; let us believe it is also a beginning. It brings its terrible loss; let us hope for the promised gain. "I am the Good Shepherd," Jesus says. "I go to prepare a place for you."

Sometimes a prompt helps us to let our loved ones go, knowing that no matter how brief a time was shared, they have fulfilled what they came into being to achieve and that their love will continue.

Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.

You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun--and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist--that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists--a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles."

In Memory Of Alan C Davids (uncle)

&

Sarah V Davids (grandma)

&

Charles W Davids ( grandpa)

&

Fioula Davids (cousin)

Poem

Entering his Kingdom

Overlooking the ocean,
Wondering will I ever see you,
The days seem longer,
Nights seem to go slower,
What I am missing,
Is knowing you going,
Holding onto a memory,
Thinking I am out of surgery,
Overlooking the passage,
Down to your room,
Never knowing,
When I will be holding,
Caring, giving, graciously receiving,
Oceans spread as wide as his wings
Looking over the face,
I see you,
Up there, in heaven,
Waving,
Wanting to reach a hand out,
Angels singing you coming,
I see you at the open gate,
As the ocean makes way for you,
To climb up the stairs
To your new home,
They couldn’t save you here
But I know up there
You will not need a surgery,
Not missing
Not holding
Not looking
But hoping
We’ll meet again.
One day,
In this wide ocean, as you climb up the stairs.
To that Golden gate,
Where trumpets blowing,
The coming of a new angel.
Never look back,
Cause I will be looking ahead,
Meeting you again one day,
In that pearly white gate.

Copyright C Davids

Today's blog i pay tribute to the ones whose gone before me, whose watching over me in this day and age. This has been a tough year on myself and family members, friends and loved ones. I sit here this afternoon thanking God for letting me apart of these 3 peoples lives. A family that has loved me no matter what. Recently I lost my uncle about two months ago, and I guess somewhere inside me I still expect to see him when I go to the house, and his there. But God has better plans for him, he took him home, that is why I wrote Entering His Kingdom.

God gives us strength to face tragedy

HARDLY a week passes when we don't have faith tested.

A good man with everything to live for dies in a moment of tragedy, while an elderly patient who has had her life and longs to die lingers on in pain and discomfort.

We live in a world in which there is conflict between good and evil, and each one of us is caught up in the struggle.

And there are few times in our lives which leave us more helpless than moments of personal tragedy.

Like Job in the Bible we may cry out to God our inability to understand. God will listen. But He may not necessarily give us a quick or easy answer to life's imponderables.

As long as we are this side of Heaven our knowledge will be imperfect and we shall see in a mirror dimly.

The Christian faith does not leave us in despair, however. We have a blessed hope that there will surely come a time when we shall understand fully and see for ourselves face to face.

Meanwhile, we must take heart that God knows and understands, and we have to hang on to Him with every bit of faith we have.

Although God may not shield us from all life's ills He is able to give us the strength and inner courage to face them and see them through.

As we cling to God so we need to cling to one another, for adversity has a way of drawing people together for comfort and support.

"For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood" — from 1Corinthians 13.

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct your paths.

Proverbs 3, 5-6