Posted on 07/09/2006 8:59:29 PM PDT by The Mayor
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Hi, LUV. {{{HUGS}}}. It's hard to say Good-bye, isn't it?
xxooxxooxx
Your Mom was soooo proud of you and spoke of you often! What a void she's left on FR.
Thanks a million for the delightful video.
Hi, Sweetie!
Yes it certainly is. I miss her calling me LUVY. *sniff*
How are you doing?
I have to go to bed soon. Got an early day tomorrow. Good to see you! ((((hugs)))
It is the same song and I love it! Being half-Irish meself.
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I am just fine. I love the Summer. Hope you are doing well too.
I always expected to see something from LadyX when I signed on to the Finest threads, so it's a shock that her posts have ended.
I was really in awe of all the bounty that poured forth from her. What a wonderful lady.
Well, Luvvy... sweet dreams.
A couple of years ago, I sent a VHS tape to WVNan and LadyX. The tape included a musical drama written and produced at our church.
The title of this particular drama was "This Side of Heaven". Briefly, the story revolves around a young music minister's search for music to use in worship service. As he thumbs through the hymnal, he falls asleep and begins a dream where he awakens in Hymn Writer's Corner of Heaven. As the story unfolds, hymn writers tell their own story how each wrote their hymns.
One hymn in particular was "It Is Well", written by Horatio Spafford upon reaching the spot where his children vanished in a shipwreck while crossing the Atlantic.
"It Is Well, With My Soul..." I feel may have been Maggie's thoughts over the years, and we here at The Finest have been blessed with her presence - this side of heaven.
Dear Maggie: Home Free Eternally! Praise the Lord.
Just so! (:
Same here; I don't want to miss a single moment or any precious memories. Dave, I really appreciated your tribute (some posts back) and it's got me thinking maybe I will share some more. I was thinking on Sunday about how our Lady Maggie was Jesus here - 1 John 4:16 says plainly, "He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him." And Jesus told us that there is no greater love than that a man lay down his life for his friends. Maggie did that here all the time: disregarding her own pain and trials so that she could be here to help others with theirs. I bet she did it all day long wherever she was because she was so full of God - she just didn't give any heed to the cross she bore, but reached out to help bear the weight of the crosses we all carried. She fulfilled the law of love. So this poem or song came to me and I wrote it down. It's for Maggie; it's what she lived:
Where Love Is, There Thou ArtHanging on a cross and bleeding
Yet for others interceding
Counting not this pain but theirs
Travailing not in pity but in prayerTo picture Thee in my distress
To help some other in their test
To think not mine but theirs the pain
To comfort them and ease their strainThis is love: Here Thee I see
When another's weight counts more to me
When other woes than mine transpire
To burden me, to bid me higherTo so reach, Your throne ascend
On bended knee, but for a friend
This grace I ask, for Christ I seek
And see in such my Savior meek
Where Love is, there Thou art
This my aim, this my part:
To bring Thee near, O Love Divine,
Through this willing vessel You made mine.
Ditto what Dave said ((( RUS )))!
Amen. I'm so glad you shared that.
Blue grass music. How pretty. They always tell such a good story.
All three versions that you posted were beautiful, but the last one by the man who sounded like Willie Nelson was absolutely beatiful. Thank you.
beatiful = beautiful
Drat letter theif!
Nan, do you remember a story she told us about an alligator? That showed up in my mail today from a friend in Florida.
Nan, do you remember a story she told us about an alligator? That showed up in my mail today from a friend in Florida.
This is a wonderful way to see and remember your Mom. She is having fun and so happy. :) Thank you so very much for sharing your video. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
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