9 days ago my 17 yr daughter was killed in a crash. She was one of those rare young people who professed her faith in God to all around her and spent three weeks this summer with a Christian Youth based group out of NC traveling the U.S. I try very hard everyday to be strong like she would want me to be and with 3 other children I know I have to be...but there are times during the day when I can't even breath, I walk the house at nite thinking...she's going to walk in and say..."No momma that wasn't me in the crash" I feel so empty inside and did I not have my faith which teaches me suicide is a mortal sin (thus knowing I would never get to see her again) I would surely have left by now...
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I struggle each day
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OH MY , MY HEART IS SO HEAVY FOR YOU AS I POST THIS , IT IS ACHING . I FEEL THE HURT.
THE WONDERFULL THING THESE EYES COULD HAVE READ, THAT SHE LOVE THE LORD THROUGH THE READING I GOT THAT. THAT IS SO GOOD TO KNOW HUN. THANK YOU JESUS !!!!!
I PRAY RIGHT NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS THE YOU WILL GIVE HIM YOUR ALL IN ALL, BUT HIM FIRST IN YOUR LIFE AND I KNOW THERE WILL ALL WAYS BE PAIN THERE. BUT GOD WILL HELP YOU THROUGH THIS BEYOUND OUR THINKING. SWEETIE WE CAN NOT SEE THE BIG PICTURE OF WHY THINGS HAPPEN , BUT GOD KNOWS BEST AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND AT THIS TIME IN YOUR LIFE. I AM SO LOST FOR WORDS BECAUSE I HAVEN'T WALKED IN YOUR SHOES. SWEETIE I CAN TELL YOU ONE THING, IF YOU EVER NEED TO TALK OR NEED ANYTHING WITHIN MY POWER I WILL DO MY BEST. YOU JUST PM ME AND GET MY EMAIL . I LOVE YOU GAL AND MY HEART IS BROKE FOR YOU .I WILL KEEP YOU IN MY HEART AND PRAY TO GOD TO GIVE YOU STRENGTH.
THE WONDERFULL THING THESE EYES COULD HAVE READ, THAT SHE LOVE THE LORD THROUGH THE READING I GOT THAT. THAT IS SO GOOD TO KNOW HUN. THANK YOU JESUS !!!!!
I PRAY RIGHT NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS THE YOU WILL GIVE HIM YOUR ALL IN ALL, BUT HIM FIRST IN YOUR LIFE AND I KNOW THERE WILL ALL WAYS BE PAIN THERE. BUT GOD WILL HELP YOU THROUGH THIS BEYOUND OUR THINKING. SWEETIE WE CAN NOT SEE THE BIG PICTURE OF WHY THINGS HAPPEN , BUT GOD KNOWS BEST AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND AT THIS TIME IN YOUR LIFE. I AM SO LOST FOR WORDS BECAUSE I HAVEN'T WALKED IN YOUR SHOES. SWEETIE I CAN TELL YOU ONE THING, IF YOU EVER NEED TO TALK OR NEED ANYTHING WITHIN MY POWER I WILL DO MY BEST. YOU JUST PM ME AND GET MY EMAIL . I LOVE YOU GAL AND MY HEART IS BROKE FOR YOU .I WILL KEEP YOU IN MY HEART AND PRAY TO GOD TO GIVE YOU STRENGTH.
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You will see her again! That is the comfort, and I have suffered loss of loved ones too, who also believed. I rejoice that death is not an end to those who believe. Jesus has overcome death. I will be praying for you. 
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Yes, that is the comfort you will see her again. Give thanks to God that you will see her again. I pray that you will know the peace that only the Lord gives. I know it's hard, my mum was quite young when she died, but I know I will see her again.
For this we have Jesus!
For this we have Jesus!
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I'm praying for you loads! and for the rest of your family and friends of you and her both! You will see her again, I know how it is to need to believe that you can still go to heaven after suicide, and you WILL get to see her again! I'm praying that God heals you and helps yuo all through the greiving process, holding you close in his arms and comforting you! God bless
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Oh, my dear broken heart! This poem helped me when our son died:
FAITH
I will not doubt, though all my ships at sea
Come drifting home with broken masts and sails;
I will believe the Hand which never fails,
From seeming evil worketh good for me.
And though I weep because those sails are tattered,
Still will I cry, while my best hopes lie shattered:
"I trust in Thee."
I will not doubt, though all my prayers return
Unanswered from the still, white realm above;
I will believe it is an all-wise love
Which has refused these things for which I yearn;
And though at times I cannot keep from grieving,
Yet the pure ardor of my fixed believing
Undimmed shall burn.
I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain,
And troubles swarm like bees about a hive;
I will believe the heights for which I strive
Are only reached by anguish and by pain;
And though I groan and writhe beneath my crosses,
I yet shall see through my severest losses
The greater gain.
I will not doubt. Well anchored in this faith,
Like some staunch ship, my soul braves every gale;
So strong its courage that it will not quail
To breast the mighty unknown sea of death.
O, may I cry, though body parts with spirit,
"I do not doubt," so listening worlds may hear it,
With my last breath.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
God bless you. God is saving your tears in His special bottle: Ps.56:8 TLB: "You have col­lected all my tears and pre­served them in your bot­tle! You have recorded every one of them in your book."
If I can be of help, please, please contact me. We heard our oldest son scream and shoot himself to death. Four months later I write GRIEF, and it is available on internet.
In His love (yes, my dear friend, He does love us!) and surely my heart, too!
Pat
FAITH
I will not doubt, though all my ships at sea
Come drifting home with broken masts and sails;
I will believe the Hand which never fails,
From seeming evil worketh good for me.
And though I weep because those sails are tattered,
Still will I cry, while my best hopes lie shattered:
"I trust in Thee."
I will not doubt, though all my prayers return
Unanswered from the still, white realm above;
I will believe it is an all-wise love
Which has refused these things for which I yearn;
And though at times I cannot keep from grieving,
Yet the pure ardor of my fixed believing
Undimmed shall burn.
I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain,
And troubles swarm like bees about a hive;
I will believe the heights for which I strive
Are only reached by anguish and by pain;
And though I groan and writhe beneath my crosses,
I yet shall see through my severest losses
The greater gain.
I will not doubt. Well anchored in this faith,
Like some staunch ship, my soul braves every gale;
So strong its courage that it will not quail
To breast the mighty unknown sea of death.
O, may I cry, though body parts with spirit,
"I do not doubt," so listening worlds may hear it,
With my last breath.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
God bless you. God is saving your tears in His special bottle: Ps.56:8 TLB: "You have col­lected all my tears and pre­served them in your bot­tle! You have recorded every one of them in your book."
If I can be of help, please, please contact me. We heard our oldest son scream and shoot himself to death. Four months later I write GRIEF, and it is available on internet.
In His love (yes, my dear friend, He does love us!) and surely my heart, too!
Pat
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Welcome to CF, jennasmom. I don't think any of us who have never lost a child can imagine what you are going through. God grant you strength to endure, and healing for your broken heart.
-Dianne
-Dianne
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ArmouredSaint
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your heart must hurt more than we can imagine as a parent.thanks for posting so i can pray for you.you just posted the one time.hopefully you'll find your way back to this site.God speed.
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horseluva42792
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WOW!!! MY 17 YEAR OLD COUSIN JENNA DIED IN A CAR CRASH OCTOBER 22ND!!!!!!!!!! I am really sorry about your loss, My cousin Jenna sounds like your daughter....I miss her very much. I bet they are both together in heaven, probably good friends by now.
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Well, there's something that helps in my mourning for my grandpa. You'll see her in Heaven again! And then you'll be with her forever! I write poetry and that helps to get it out in the open if I can't cry. I hope I helped. I'll be praying for you.
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i am praying for you.God is here,next to you, because loves YOU.He won"t go away.he loves you too much.
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You just have to hold on to thfac that her purpose here was fufilled and she is in a better place right now. Trust me God understands your pain, just give it to him and he will give you piece of mind. Jesus said, "Cast all your cares upon me, because I care for you"
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Jenna's Mom,
I'd like to share with you a piece that has always helped me with my loss...
I am standing upon that foreshore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails in the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!"
"Gone where?" "Gone from my sight, that's all." She is just as large in mast and spar and hull as ever she was when she left my side; just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at that moment when someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"
I'd like to share with you a piece that has always helped me with my loss...
I am standing upon that foreshore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails in the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!"
"Gone where?" "Gone from my sight, that's all." She is just as large in mast and spar and hull as ever she was when she left my side; just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at that moment when someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"
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I lost my child almost 4 years ago. Even now, when I talk to someone who has lost a child I still don't know what to say to people. I'm so very sorry. I'll be praying for strength for you, and if you ever need to talk to someone feel free to pm me.
Peace,
Erica
Peace,
Erica
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I cannot imagine your pain and sorrow, but I pray that God will carry you through
and sustain you with His peace.
and sustain you with His peace.
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Our 19yr old son died in a car crash three years ago. I know what you are feeling at this moment. Love and prayers.
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I pray that God will heal your emotional pain as time goes on. Keep the good memories of you and her close to your heart. If you need a friend, you can talk to me.
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Aww....Im really sorry that broke my heart. I have a 17 year old sister and if anything EVER happened to her like that I know I would be like you. You WILL see your daughter again. Every morning and night I know she is up in Hevean looking down at you and smiling. She was probably looking down at you as you typed that. I know how hard it is to loose a loved one, but I dont know how hard it is to loose a child. Just try and stay strong and be with your other children during their time of greif. Remind them that someday they will see their older/younger sister up in Hevean but for right now just rememeber the good times that they had with her. You will defitnally be in my prayers sweetie. God bless you!
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