GAZE OF THE SOUL BY Julia: Jan 2, 2009

Friday, January 2, 2009

Tear Drops Poem

They say memories are golden,

Well, maybe that is true;

I never wanted memories,

I only wanted you.

A million times I needed you,

A million times I cried;

If love alone could have saved you,

You never would have died.

In life I loved you dearly,

In death I love you still;

In my heart you hold a piece

No one could ever fill.

But now I know you want me

To mourn for you no more,

To remember the happy times

Life still has much in store.

Since you'll never be forgotten

I pledge to you today;

A hallowed place within my heart

Is where you'll always stay.

If tears could build a stairway

And heartache make a lane;

I'd walk the path to heaven

And bring you back again.

Our family chain is broken,

and nothing seems the same;

But as God calls us one by one,

The chain will link again.

" The heart is by nature restless as old ocean's waves; it seeks an object for its affection; and when it finds one beneath the stars, it is doomed to sorrow. Either the beloved changes, and there is disappointment; or death comes in, and there is bereavement. The more tender the heart, the greater its unrest. Those in whom the heart is simply one of the largest valves are undisturbed, because they are callous; but the sensitive, the generous, and the unselfish, are often found seeking rest and finding none. To such, the Lord Jesus says, "Come unto Me and I will give you rest."

There are flowers that bloom in winter, if we have but grace to see them. Never was there a night of the soul so dark but what some lone star of hope might be discerned, and never a spiritual tempest so tremendous but what there was a haven into which the soul could put if it had but enough confidence in God to make a run for it. Rest assured that though you have fallen very low, you might have fallen lower if it were not that underneath are the Everlasting Arms. "

~~Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1886~~