As I write this, I am in great physical pain, pain not even the extremely high doses of morphine can alleviate. Pain I fight to control everyday, but inevitably give in to, as lie down and try to sleep, praying to God, for some respite, from the continual, excruciating, unendurable pain, in my legs, my arms, my neck and my face. But, today I have a bigger burden to bear. One much deeper, but one that will abate with time. And yet, that does not comfort me.
We got the very sad news that my niece's (Beth's) baby died yesterday. I've spent the morning wracked with sorrow, literally crying in shudders. It has been a long time since one our own has died, and it really hit me. And yet, I can't imagine the sorrow that Beth feels, the grief of a Mother.
I know she told Debi, her mother, not to come to Guam, because she knows Debi does not have the money. But, and I feel very strongly about this, this is a time when she needs her mother, and possibly her Christian Grandmother there, to counsel, guide and comfort her. This was family that died. One of our own, and I know that Dad would have wanted us to band together to help Beth through this time of crisis and grief, But, most of us cannot afford to do that,
You will all have to think about this. But, we have to, at the very least, get Debi there. I'm asking you to consider chipping in to get her a ticket, I'll do some looking, to see how much a flight to Guam is.
Also, I know the family is poor, and they probably cannot pay for a decent Christian burial. I am asking for donations so that they can do that. I'm going to set up a fund for them, in my Trinity Mountain Outdoors Pay Pal account at
TRMichels@yahoo.com, for donations from family, and everyone who knows me.
Please pray for this family and consider donating to help out one of our families.
Even $5 will help this family.
Thanks
Yours in Christ,
T.R.
One of Our Own
Pay heed Family,
Pay heed.
I've been inspired this morning,
Inspired to write
by Yahweh, our Father
and One of Our Own.
One of Our Own
I did not even know.
One too young
To have been presented to us.
One too young to have known,
the vagaries of life.
The pain, the suffering,
the gladness, the joy.
Inspired by one,
So far away, yet so near.
I realized this
when I woke this morning.
And wept, wept uncontrollably,
as I have never wept before.
As I write this,
with tears in my eyes,
a trembling in my heart,
a burden on my soul.
As I tremble and shudder,
Literally wracked by sorrow.
Shaken with loss.
For One of Our Own
has died, yesterday.
She lived only
a month and eleven days.
Time to have known
the love of her own.
Her father, her mother
Her brothers and more.
But not,
the other family she has,
The family of Michels
The family of God.
For we all are one
In the body of Christ.
So pay heed
all you children,
of the body of Christ,
One of our own
Has died.
For we are all family,
Whether Michels, or Stangler or Kallevig,
Holzel, Eichernberry or Pascua.
Or others unknown.
We Michels are family,
Passed on from father to son.
Mother to daughter.
Whether by blood or by law.
From Great, Great Grandfather John,
Great Grandpa Leo
To Grandpa and father
our leader "Doctor Mike".
Family not only in blood,
But in our spirit too.
We are all family,
in heart and in soul.
Joined together
In the body of Christ,
We Christians need mourn
One of Our Own.
Remember this day,
all you Children of Christ.
For time is short,
As long as for ever,
As short as a breath.
Forgive your fellow man
for wrongs unsaid.
You may not have time
To do it again.
So heal all wounds,
to family and friends.
Hold them all close
and be family once more.
This burden I feel,
deep in my heart
is for the youngest among us
by name, Keira Lynn.
Never forget
That you did not grow
in my heart or mind,
but in my very soul.
So pay heed all you children
of the body of Christ.
One of Our Own
Has been called home.
She is never forgotten
never alone.
One of the family
of the Body of Christ.
Only a baby
Now, in the arms of Christ.
By T.R. Michels, August 3, 2010
In Memory of Keira Lynn
who was Born June 22, 2010, and died August 2, 2010
To Lemaitre - this is what being Christain, a believer in the one and only God, Yahweh, does, and is.
A Death in the Family
