A Peek Into Heaven Just one little peek into heaven, Is all I’m asking for today. I just want to know how she’s doing, And heaven seems so far away. Is she playing on the clouds with angels? Is she laughing and running today? Does she miss me? I guess only she knows. Oh why […]
With Time “The pain will go away, with time” “It won’t be so bad, after awhile” So say these friends of mine… But they have never lost a child…. The pain will never go away Yet it softens some, with time My child is gone, it hurts to say I’ll never be “just fine” Tho […]
When God Calls Our Children When God calls our children to dwell with Him above, We mortals sometimes question the wisdom of His love. For no heartache compares with, the death of one small child. Who does so much to make our world, seem so wonderful and mild. Perhaps God tires of calling the aged […]
Little Angels When God calls little children to dwell with Him above, We mortals sometime question the wisdom of His love. For no heartache compares with the death of one small child Who does so much to make our world, seem wonderful and mild Perhaps God tires of calling the aged to his fold, So […]
A Mother’s Lament For Her Son’s Death FATE gave the word, the arrow sped, And pierc’d my darling’s heart; And with him all the joys are fled Life can to me impart. by cruel hands the sapling drops, In dust dishonour’d laid; So fell the pride of all my hopes, My age’s future shade. The […]
God Sent An Angel To The Earth God sent an angel to the earth… The sweetest angel too and for such a tiny little thing, she had so much to do. She/he knew she/he did not have much time upon this earth to stay, so she/he did not waste a second; she/he got started right […]
On The Death Of C. E. (An Infant Of Twelve Months) THROUGH airy roads he wings his instant flight To purer regions of celestial light; Enlarg’d he sees unnumber’d systems roll, Beneath him sees the universal whole, Planets on planets run their destin’d round, And circling wonders fill the vast profound. Th’ ethereal now, and […]
Childhood It would be good to give much thought, before you try to find words for something so lost, for those long childhood afternoons you knew that vanished so completely –and why? We’re still reminded–: sometimes by a rain, but we can no longer say what it means; life was never again so filled with […]
Just For Today For Bereaved Parents Just for today I will try to live through the next 24 hours and not expect to get over my child’s death, but instead learn to live with it, just one day at a time. Just for today I will remember my child’s life, not just her death, and […]
Then The Child Opened Its Eyes Then the child opened its eyes, and looked up into the angel’s beautiful face, which beamed with happiness, and at the same moment they were in heaven, where joy and bliss reigned. The child received wings like the other angel, and they flew about together, hand in hand. – Hans […]