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Pathway of Pain
If my days were untroubled
and my heart always light,
would I seek that fair land
where there is no night?
If I never grew weary
with the weight of my load,
would I search for God's peace
at the end of the road?
If I never knew sickness
and never felt pain,
would I search for a hand
to help and sustain?
If I walked without sorrow
and lived without loss,
would my soul seek solace
at the foot of the cross?
If all I desired
was mine day by day,
would I kneel before God
and earnestly pray?
If God sent no winter
to freeze me with fear,
would I yearn for the
warmth of Spring every year?
I ask myself these
and the answer is plain,
if my life were pleasure
and I never knew pain
I'd seek God less often
and need Him much less,
for God is sought more often
in times of distress.
And no one knows God
or sees Him as plain
as those who have met Him on the
"Pathway of Pain."
Author Helen Steiner Rice
 
  
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SONG: Here I Am used for the love and memory of my nephew only.
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This set is the most special set I have ever done. It is in memory of my nephew who I love more
like my own son. He committed suicide at the age of 22 on January 13, 2003.
Someone told me that God sometimes allows the most beautiful flower in your garden to be taken so that the others in the garden will come to him also, in this case
I know it is true because Eddie was the most beautiful flower in our garden.
Luk 15:4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Luk 15:5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
Luk 15:6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
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