If you are older than two, you have likely experienced loss and not simply missing baby teeth.
Joseph Scriven watched in shock as the body of his fiancée was pulled from the lake. Their wedding planned for the next day never happened. Reeling from tragedy, he left his mother in Ireland and immigrated to Canada.
Several years later when his mother faced her own crisis, Joseph wrote her a comforting poem. She passed it to a friend whereupon it became a popular hymn, published anonymously.
Meanwhile, Joseph experienced tragedy again when his second bride-to-be died of tuberculosis before their wedding.
What song came from the life of a man who experienced such sorrow?
What a Friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and grief’s to bear!
What a privilege to carry, Everything to God in prayer!
Oh, what peace we often forfeit, Oh, what needless pain we bear.
All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!
Tomorrow, on the second anniversary of a personal loss of two dear ones from my own life, in addition to sharing with others, I will do well to take my loss to my Maker in prayer. http://jaredstorer.blogspot.com/2008/08/crash-site.html http://www.kirotv.com/news/16980886/detail.html
Source: “Then Sings My Soul” Robert J. Morgan, Thomas Nelson Publishers
– Chaplain Robin
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