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6/10/02 | Redcloak

Posted on 06/10/2002 10:50:40 AM PDT by Redcloak

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To: Redcloak
Dear Lord,this experience Redcloak, his wife and their daughter are going through is arguably one of the worst things a family can go through...the loss of a loved one. Only the loss of a family member that is not saved is worse. We, having knowledge that Forrest had yet to reach the age of accountabilty, are confident that he is in your loving care now. Thank you for your compassion and forgiveness Lord. I ask that you be with this family in this terrible time of need.

Keep Redcloak focused on Your Holy scripture and based in Your Wisdom Lord. Remove the anxiety from their hearts and replace it with growing love, faith and understanding of and for You. Pour out Your heavenly Grace on this family Lord, and keep Forrest in Your loving arms until he can be reunited with his fellow saints in Christ- the family he would have been blessed to be a part of here on earth.

Thank You for hearing my humble prayer Lord. In Chrsit's name I pray. Amen.

181 posted on 06/11/2002 10:56:52 AM PDT by griffin
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To: Redcloak
I have my small army (6 at home) praying regularly. My son Max, who was with us for only 12 hours, is likely giving Forrest the royal tour. It's been a year and a half--and it is easier to deal with now...FWIW.
182 posted on 06/11/2002 11:07:26 AM PDT by ninenot
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To: All
A keep on praying for Redcloak and his family BUMP!!
183 posted on 06/11/2002 12:41:24 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: RedCloak
Thought and prayers bump.
184 posted on 06/11/2002 12:43:38 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: Redcloak
I am so sorry Redcloak, sadness in my heart for you and your family. God Bless Forrest. My Thoughts and Prayers are with Forrest. Prayers for you and your wife, and Prayers for your daughter. Take Care
185 posted on 06/11/2002 1:52:21 PM PDT by deadhead
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To: Redcloak
Pryaing for your family in this time of deep sorrow.

May the Lord send you some folks all the days of your life to remember all your children and the place they each have in your heart.

Abundant blessings in Christ†

186 posted on 06/11/2002 2:00:25 PM PDT by 4Godsoloved..Hegave
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To: Redcloak
I have included Mr. & Mrs. Redcoak and Forrest in my prayers. God please watch over this family, show them your love.
187 posted on 06/11/2002 2:07:32 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: Redcloak
I am so very sorry to hear of your loss, and of course, my prayers and thoughts will be concentrated today, towards you, and your whole family....

What to say when one loses a child? I have no answers...all I can tell you is this...

I lost my 15yr old son to a very horrible form of leukemia, many years ago...His dianosis, his prognosis, his treatment and his death were horrors, that I never thought, I as a parent would ever have to go through...we always think that it is the other guy, who will have to go through things like this...

And like you, I never envisioned myself place in the situation, where one of my children would die before I did...

We also had another child, our younger son, who was 11ys old at the time of his brothers death...I think that children, at different ages, respond differently to death of a loved one...so I dont know what to say about your other child and how you need to deal with them in this time of grief...all I can say is, love them, comfort them, explain to them when they have questions..This will seen so difficult, because you are in such grief yourself, but the remaining children still need to know how much they matter to you, and how badly they themselves are also hurting...

The death of my son, was the worst thing I ever endured...and I am sure that you feel that exact same way now...But I had a wondeful husband, and another son, and a whole support system of friends and family....Please use those who present themselves to you, for support, and allow yourself to grieve...

God has gathered many children home to Him, and we do not know why, except that we know God has His plans and His reasons for what He allows to happen...I know it seems so hard now, to understand, and perhaps we are not meant to understand right now...perhaps we are meant to go on faith, that God will keep our dead children, safe in his keeping, until we can return to them, in Gods own good time...

Again, prayers, thoughts and kind wishes forthcoming from our family to your family..

We will pray for you...

188 posted on 06/11/2002 2:44:15 PM PDT by andysandmikesmom
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To: Redcloak
I wanted you to know my prayers are with you and your family.
189 posted on 06/11/2002 2:49:05 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife
What a beautiful pic! You are so kind!
190 posted on 06/11/2002 3:15:47 PM PDT by ~EagleNebula~
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To: trussell; RnMomof7
Prayer PING!
191 posted on 06/11/2002 3:37:21 PM PDT by ~EagleNebula~
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To: Redcloak
Cast all your concerns, heartaches and burdens on Jesus Christ who shed his blood for you, your wife and Forest. Jesus loves you and especially children, infants like Forest. There is a special mansion prepared for Forest in Heaven, Jesus promised this.

Be grateful that Jesus and God has made this provison of eternal life for you and Forest. I am grateful that your wife was not injured in her child birth. There was a time when many more mothers died giving birth as well as their infants than today.

The Lord can give you another child. Dedicate the child to the Lord Jesus Christ and raise you new child up in the ways of the Lord so he will be a blessing to the whole world. And dedicate your daughter also to Jesus Christ. Explain all this to her when she can understand and the day will come when she will rise up and call you Blessed.

Praise God and the gift of His Son Jesus Christ and eternal life through him.

Love God with all your heart, mind and soul and He will give you and your wife and daughter comfort and joy.

192 posted on 06/11/2002 3:44:02 PM PDT by OKCSubmariner
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To: Redcloak
I cannot even begin to imagine your pain. My prayers for you and your wife and your little girl. May Our Heavenly Father give you the strength you need at this time.
193 posted on 06/11/2002 6:14:23 PM PDT by Bigg Red
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To: Redcloak
Redcloak- My sincere sympathy to you, your wife and family on the loss of your precious son, Forrest. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. May God grant you strength and peace.
194 posted on 06/11/2002 7:14:34 PM PDT by Dixie Mom
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To: Redcloak
Prayers sent on behalf of you and family and for a blessed reunion some day soon.

Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King;
Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King;
Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King;
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! We're going to see the King.

Verse 2: No more crying there, we are going to see the King;
Verse 3: No more dying there, we are going to see the King;

195 posted on 06/12/2002 7:23:39 AM PDT by DrewsDad
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To: All
Again, thanks to everyone who's been praying for us. I am asking in Christ's Name that God bless each and every one of you.

Yesterday was Forrest's funeral. My wife is Jewish so the ceremony included Jewish and Christian traditions. Her brother led the service for us with my pastor. They both did a beautiful job. Everyone was blessed by it.

We realized yesterday how much God has blessed us with friends and family. One friend brought dozens and dozens of roses. Another friend has been an incredible blessing thoughout this whole ordeal. She collected all of the baby shower gifts and returned then. The also gathered up all of the items scattered throughout the house that related to Forrest, such as ultrasound pics and the like, and put them in the nursery so that we wouldn't keep stumbling across them. She made dozens of phone calls for us and helped me get through making the funeral arrangements. And most importantly, she was there with us in the OR during the C-section.

I mentioned earlier that we were worried about our daughter. She hadn't been directly expressing her sorrow. That changed at the funeral. Part of the Jewish tradition (and what was once my church's tradition back in the "old country"...) is to have each mourner in attendence place a shovelful of earth onto the casket. The finality of that brought out her tears. I held her and told her that it was OK to cry and feel sad, even though we know that Forrest is in Heaven. She then returned to her "Kleenex patrol" duties and started handing out tissues to everyone she saw crying. (She had stuffed her little purse full of tissues for everyone.) She and my niece also made sure that everyone got a rose to take home.

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I'm not sure that today isn't harder than yesterday. Today was supposed to be his birthday. I was supposed to be making a gaudy "Baby FReeper" post and handing out cigars. But that's not in God's plan and I do trust in His plan. A great blessing will result from this.

Magnified and sactified be God's great name throughout the world which God created and governs by divine will. May the Kingdom of God be established during your lifetime, and during your days, and during the days of all the house of Israel, yea speedily and in the near future, and let us say Amen.

May God's great name be blessed for ever and ever.

Exaulted, glorified and honored be the name of the Holy One whose glory is beyond all blessings, hymns, and praises which people render, and let us say, Amen.

May great peace emanate from Heaven with good life for us and for all Israel, and let us say, Amen.

May the One who makes peace in the heavens, make peace for us and for all Israel, and let us say, Amen.

-The Mourners' Kaddish

This is one of the traditional prayers said by the Jews at funerals and throughout the mourning period. I wanted to include it because its central focus is on praising and honoring God, not upon death.
Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed- in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen,

"Death has been swallowed up in victory."
"Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?"

- 1 Corinthians, 15:51-55

Again, thank you all for remembering us in your prayers.
196 posted on 06/12/2002 12:59:46 PM PDT by Redcloak
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To: Redcloak
I just found out about your loss Cloakster ... my heart goes out to you and your family ... nothing I can say will ease this pain ... know I'm praying my best prayers for you and yours ... and the soul of your littlest Angel.

Hugs
2T

197 posted on 06/13/2002 11:12:45 PM PDT by 2Trievers
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To: Redcloak
Victor Frankl is the only philosopher who ever offered me solace under such grief...That Forrest is at peace and he would gladly take your place and suffer the pain you and your wife are going through to spare YOU. By being left behind yours is the suffering, yours is the sacrifice...and the Grace that comes of it. My chest hurts as yours does, as I remember the grief from my mother's death...I'm so sorry...God's peace be with you now...
198 posted on 06/13/2002 11:24:00 PM PDT by sleavelessinseattle
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To: psyops; Colorado Tanker; Libertina; pissed off janitor; happygrl;Dennisw;sjackson;Proudeagle...
My friends, DO NOT go to this site unprepared if you are easily upset...go when you can be alone for a few minutes...take care of your environment, first.

Redcloak and his family will need all our FReeper prayers and support for a long time to come...This is about as rough as it gets in my opinion. God Bless the FR family.

199 posted on 06/13/2002 11:56:34 PM PDT by sleavelessinseattle
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To: Redcloak
No platitudes, just prayers for you and your wife. Thanking God for the love that is evident within your precious family.
200 posted on 06/14/2002 4:01:39 AM PDT by happygrl
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