Psalm 3
When a loved one endures extensive care
suffering though an illness,
we are there suffering too.
Yet through the pain, comes
LOVE, a love of the most enduring kind.
Even while you, Jesus, were
nailed to the cross dying,
as your mother stood beneath it,
You asked John to care for her as his own.*
Father, when You divide the land
causing death by the millions,
is it in anger?
Or are You being compassionate to
the ones you take up in your arms?
Are they not resting now in a greater place?
Surely the ones left behind are suffering.
What are they to do?
Shall they rejoice in their loss?
Shall they lament that they were not rescued
from their already weary place?
What is this Mystery of who goes and who stays?
Lord, help me to dig deeper into the purpose of suffering.
Father, you foreknew from the foundation
of the world that your Son would be born
to be brutalized, humiliated and abandoned.
For our greater good He did this because of His love for You,
trusting You're love for us.
Oh Lord, powerful creator and destroyer,
let us not see things the way the world sees them
but in the ever-flowing presence of your Spirit.
For as John himself said,
God is Love.**
suffering though an illness,
we are there suffering too.
Yet through the pain, comes
LOVE, a love of the most enduring kind.
Even while you, Jesus, were
nailed to the cross dying,
as your mother stood beneath it,
You asked John to care for her as his own.*
Father, when You divide the land
causing death by the millions,
is it in anger?
Or are You being compassionate to
the ones you take up in your arms?
Are they not resting now in a greater place?
Surely the ones left behind are suffering.
What are they to do?
Shall they rejoice in their loss?
Shall they lament that they were not rescued
from their already weary place?
What is this Mystery of who goes and who stays?
Lord, help me to dig deeper into the purpose of suffering.
Father, you foreknew from the foundation
of the world that your Son would be born
to be brutalized, humiliated and abandoned.
For our greater good He did this because of His love for You,
trusting You're love for us.
Oh Lord, powerful creator and destroyer,
let us not see things the way the world sees them
but in the ever-flowing presence of your Spirit.
For as John himself said,
God is Love.**
* John 19: 25.Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26.When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold your son!"27.Then He said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.
**1 John 4:8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
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Extremely well done, Anne.