loss Archives - Walking in Grace and Beauty

Christmas in Heaven

December 15, 2012 By Cyndi 10 Comments

Hi sweet friends! I just couldn’t bring myself to talk about a Fashionable Christmas today after yesterday’s tragic events.

My heart has ached every since I heard the news of the school shooting. Like many of you, I wonder why? Why do these tragedies keep happening?

I also wonder when we as a nation are going to see that taking Christ out of everything is not the answer. When are we going to realize that we need God?

I can’t begin to imagine what these families are going through but I believe that those young children are in heaven and I wonder what Christmas in heaven will be like………..

Believing in Him,
Cyndi

Filed Under: Christmas Tagged With: christ, christmas, heaven, loss

Simply Sunday~When It’s All Been Said and Done

April 22, 2012 By Cyndi 3 Comments

A dear friend of mine lost her father yesterday.

My heart broke as I talked with her because I know the pain of losing someone you love.

I was blessed to have a Mom who loved Jesus with all of her heart.

Mom left this earth on September 22, 2009 and yet her legacy remains.

Dictionary.com defines legacy, as anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor.

Mom passed down lots of things that we can teach our children and grandchildren.

But the most important thing Mom taught us, was to love Jesus with all of our heart.

She spent her whole life striving to know him better.

Strangely, Mom’s death showed us how to live.

Live to seek Jesus more, to love Him more and to look for His blessings.

Last Sunday, one of the men on our praise team sang, When it’s all been said and done.

After he sang it, I immediately wrote it down. I had heard it before but

not since my Mom had passed away. Wow, did it remind me of Mom.

I could have sat there and sobbed!

“When it’s all been said and done. There is just one thing that matters.

Did I do my best to live for truth? Did I live my life for you?”

Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. Ephesians 4:1

Are you living a life worthy of your calling? What will your legacy be?

Filed Under: Beauty For The Heart Tagged With: death, jesus, legacy, loss, Mom, scripture

What Everyone Needs to Know About “Loss”

February 9, 2011 By Cyndi 19 Comments

Most of you know I lost my Mom in 2009 to gastric cancer.

Maybe I’ve talked about it too much.

But in many ways it has been therapeutic for me.

I needed to share about my hurt, and my loss.

And boy have I felt the loss!

Not only was she my Mom but she was my best friend, and my mentor.

Many of you understand, you too have felt loss like me.

Maybe the loss of a mother, or father, sister or brother or the most painful of all……….a child.

Loss changes you.

There is a part of me that will never be the same.

But……….Life goes on and time does heal.

Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamenations 3:22-23