Lord I am your instrument and I realize this Christmas season that you have called me to take care of the lonely.
 
I have 2 people in my circle of friends and family that I have welcomed into my home. They have confided to me about their desperate feelings of being alone and I understand how that pain feels as I have been there. 

May their souls find peace and rejuvination in my home.


Jesus says, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11:28-30


GENESIS 2:18 "It is not good for man to be alone." 


HER GRIEF TRANSFORMED
by Andrew Richards

Alone I sat, alone in grief,
A lonely heart, I had no hope,
Filled with pain, with no relief,
With such fear, I could not cope,
Half my life had ripped away,
When death took him from me that day.

I saw a neighbor's smiling face,
Wondering how it came to be,
To me such smiles seemed a disgrace,
In view of death's reality,
I turned away from laughing eyes,
Refusing joy when everyone dies.

Seeing friends busy with life,
Made me sick with hidden disdain,
Unaware, that death's bitter strife,
Would suddenly find them, certain as rain,
For life is only flesh and blood,
And soon enough we're dust and mud.

Cut off from the love on which I did lean,
As my weeping filled the solitude,
I was near despair at a life so mean,
Oh where is the one to lighten my mood.
Oh what is the use, I cannot go on,
Nothing has purpose, all hope is gone.

I started to quake, in sobbing and aching,
Remembering the face stolen from me,
Then panic began, and my body was shaking,
As I thought of the life without him, to be,
Then all of a sudden, a light grew inside me,
And an imageless vision, I started to see.

My panic did stop as I felt a Great Power,
And the Presence of Jesus I suddenly knew,
His Voice in my mind, in that sad hour,
Filled me with courage, and joy ever new,
His Words were life to a spirit dying,
His "Be not afraid!" ended my crying.

I have kept this secret to the present day,
For none would believe the heavenly power,
That turned grief to joy in a wonderful way,
And that changed my life from that very hour,
For years have passed since that heavenly sight,
And today I am married to His Spirit of Light.

End