Thank you so much, SisterK for your kind words. They mean a lot to me. sorry I took so long to thank you here. Feeling down and struggling with fear of facing life without Joy now.
But the closeness of good people like you at FR comforts me.
Love,
frank ballenger (Tom Staicar)
Thank you for checking in on us. You have been in my prayers.
A couple of the men from my church are also going through the grieving process.
One goes to a support group which seems to be helping. He lost his wife about 15 months ago, turned into a recluse and that did not work well at all.
The other lost his wife suddenly about 7 weeks ago. He is an officer of the church so he has to be around church members a lot. We are doing our best to hold him up in love.
I Bible study with widows and am learning that we all go through grief differently.
I will pray that you will always know that God loves you, and Joy, very much. I pray that you will always know that you have FR family. This site is full of good souls who will support you and love you. Indeed, we are family and neighbors.
Stay wrapped in love and grab comfort from Our Father on High.
Ephesians 3: 16 – 19 (The Living Bible translation)
That out of His glorious, unlimited resources He will give you the mighty inner strengthening of His Holy Spirit, and I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your heart, living within you as you trust in Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high His love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God Himself.
May God grant you strength to carry on Frank.You are much loved here it appears.
“We do not despair as do those who have no hope “
I look forward to meeting you and Joy!
God bless you and keep you.