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Liisi, dear darling friend mine. You can not know how
much I will miss you. Miss the smiles, the hugs, the singing, the
hanging out, the laughing, the being, the love. You and I are so much
alike in many, many ways. Most importantly we share a faith in a great
God. So it is not goodbye, but I'll see you later. And that is a truly
wonderful thing to know. I am so incredibly thankful that HE let us
become friends, I can honestly say that I'm much better for knowing
you. You loved God and people with all of yourself, and I know that you
can now see our Lord and Savior face to face. I know that God loves
you even more than I do, which is hard for me to imagine, but I know
it's true. Now you are by HIS side cheering those of us that are still
running our race, you are in our cloud of witnesses with those that
have gone before us, waiting for us to come home. My heart is hurting, a lot, but underneath it all there is a peace, that can only come from God.
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Gone From My Sight
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white
sails to the morning breeze and starts
for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length
she hangs like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky come
to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says;
"There, she is gone!"
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. That is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull
and spar as she was when she left my side
and she is just as able to bear her
load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at the moment when someone
at my side says, "There, she is gone!"
There are other eyes watching her coming,
and other voices ready to take up the glad
shout;
"Here she comes!"
And that is dying.
by Henry Van Dyke, a 19th Century clergyman, educator, poet, and religious
writer
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Father God in
heaven. Be with us all now. Wrap your arms around us, just
hold us Father. We're all hurting. Let us feel your love. Father
you know what plans you have for us. Only You knew the number of days
in her life before she was born. Father you knew. You know our hearts.
You know how we are hurting. Be with Kaia, Triin, Priit, Siim, Iiris, Mare, Margit, Mai, Ave, Mom, Dad, Geoff, Jaime, Kaci, Zach, Tim, Ty, Drew, and me Father. Only you know everyone that she touched. You know all of us, you see our pain. It’s never easy to lose someone you love, but I know that you love her and you love us. So please Father, give us the comfort that only you can. Be with Iiris, Mart, Janet, and the couple that was in the other car, I know they're hurting also, they lost their daughters. Father please heal them. I love you Father.
It’s in Jesus name that I pray,
Amen
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