tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post4602708759328996481..comments2023-11-02T02:38:48.053-05:00Comments on keeping awake: a vision for eternityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-81698652394718489642007-10-31T13:52:00.000-05:002007-10-31T13:52:00.000-05:00Hello all!Hello all!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-8016307313217392842007-10-31T13:23:00.000-05:002007-10-31T13:23:00.000-05:00PtGCcV Thanks to author.PtGCcV Thanks to author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-80003896563321357872007-10-30T08:15:00.000-05:002007-10-30T08:15:00.000-05:00Please write anything else!Please write anything else!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-59882208606980009372007-10-30T04:21:00.000-05:002007-10-30T04:21:00.000-05:00actually, that's brilliant. Thank you. I'm going t...actually, that's brilliant. Thank you. I'm going to pass that on to a couple of people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-91461486528684462962007-10-30T01:09:00.000-05:002007-10-30T01:09:00.000-05:00Wonderful blog.Wonderful blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-61655522746831798362007-10-28T09:33:00.000-05:002007-10-28T09:33:00.000-05:00Wonderful blog.Wonderful blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-66000403758972743282007-10-27T14:58:00.000-05:002007-10-27T14:58:00.000-05:00Good job!Good job!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-37890643444541066312007-10-27T14:09:00.000-05:002007-10-27T14:09:00.000-05:00Please write anything else!Please write anything else!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-65831209572536427862007-10-26T14:29:00.000-05:002007-10-26T14:29:00.000-05:00Wonderful blog.Wonderful blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-39520415649101586942007-10-26T14:13:00.000-05:002007-10-26T14:13:00.000-05:00Thanks to author.Thanks to author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-62890100559642298252007-10-26T13:58:00.000-05:002007-10-26T13:58:00.000-05:00ZSsIUT Please write anything else!ZSsIUT Please write anything else!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-28034371295914180332007-10-26T13:33:00.000-05:002007-10-26T13:33:00.000-05:00pPZMxz Thanks to author.pPZMxz Thanks to author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-40688410048943483042007-10-26T12:59:00.000-05:002007-10-26T12:59:00.000-05:00YdShPR Wonderful blog.YdShPR Wonderful blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-16871088860961276092007-10-26T02:20:00.000-05:002007-10-26T02:20:00.000-05:00iQ2e7H Your blog is great. Articles is interesting...iQ2e7H Your blog is great. Articles is interesting!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-66098865129746903082007-10-21T18:19:00.000-05:002007-10-21T18:19:00.000-05:00Your story hits very close to home. I lost a son ...Your story hits very close to home. I lost a son 11 years ago, and one can never truly understand why. I would like to encourage you go read my blog. One post in particular titled 'Past Demons'. it may give you a little different perspective.Jeff Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16580529480509487366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-27110630132471716482007-10-13T17:37:00.000-05:002007-10-13T17:37:00.000-05:00This is what it is all about:http://www.youtube.co...This is what it is all about:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NaSROohLzsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-88591259713839346852007-10-13T12:40:00.000-05:002007-10-13T12:40:00.000-05:00Your all still in my thoughts....Your all still in my thoughts....JUST A MOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18154079118849078723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-71494834811968251122007-10-13T02:13:00.000-05:002007-10-13T02:13:00.000-05:00One last thought as I read your referral to C.S. L...One last thought as I read your referral to C.S. Lewis of whose books I also have. Another writer, who is/lives in Nashville and writes inspiring books is: Billy Sprague, I was giving one of his books, short, not time consuming, titled: Letter To A Grieving Heart" I have read it more times than I know. I just want to add also, I feel God has a purpose for every soul born on this earth..Our goal in life is not "this life here on earth anyway, this is nothing but a test if you will, our goal is to live in heaven..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-46517562977014416642007-10-13T01:50:00.000-05:002007-10-13T01:50:00.000-05:00Some post kind of disturb me somewhat (not your's ...Some post kind of disturb me somewhat (not your's but the comments) I am from TX by no means fall under the "southern" rules if you will.. My thought though is who are we to question God's will if we claim to believe... I have experienced extreme loss of young one's in my life as well so I am not by any means speaking from a place of having no understanding of how such a loss feels.<BR/><BR/>I pray God will give you strength through this journey/time as I do not believe there is ever a timeframe to get through the greive, it becames a journey through lifeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-44978846396849795882007-10-13T01:41:00.000-05:002007-10-13T01:41:00.000-05:00Just my own thought to share with you, I knew a ve...Just my own thought to share with you, I knew a very wise, Godly much older than myself woman when I was very young.. Everytime I used to refer to my babies as "my babies" she would say to me, they are but a blessing, given to you from God for you to guide in this world, yet they are still his child, not your's as all children are belong to God, each and everyone. Though I cannot convey in the way she did to me, I have never forgotten her words in times of heartache, etc. <BR/><BR/>God Bless you allAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-18999058553045158792007-10-12T23:19:00.000-05:002007-10-12T23:19:00.000-05:00"tune my heart to sing Thy grace." The peace of C..."tune my heart to sing Thy grace." <BR/><BR/>The peace of Christ be with you, Boothe.texasinafricahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05098411373776559793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-18949932231988891122007-10-12T23:08:00.000-05:002007-10-12T23:08:00.000-05:00I just happened upon your blog. I lost one of my ...I just happened upon your blog. I lost one of my 9 month old twins in February. People say to me often that it was "God's Will" and I object to that statement each and every time with every fiber of my being. If I for one second thought that God took my child, I would be resolute to hate Him and live eternity, probably gladly, without Him. I too was/am sometimes angry, with God, at God, not because my baby died, but because He allowed me to have the hope that she would live. She was very sick for a long time, came home after a long illness, beat all the odds, and died anyway, at home with me watching. Of course, I want her here with me, but I'm at peace much more with what happened. She died at home, I was the last thing she saw, she experienced and knew the love of her mother and father. These things are priceless to me now. You said some things that I could have said. You've reached conclusions I reached. God is Love. He does not choose which babies can live and which babies will not. We live in a world of sin, of free will, and in that world bad things sometimes happen. Bad things, to good people, to innocent people. I searched my heart and my mind for something I had done to deserve the death of my precious Aleah. The thought that God would use her to get back at me, is absurd when I say it out loud, but it's amazing that my mind considered this as a possibility. I was making her death about me, which, of course, it wasn't. I doubted my faith. If only I had prayed longer, prayed harder, not had moments of doubt and of exasperation with Him when she was alive. I had even lost my will to bargain with Him. As the paramedics worked to revive her, my mind did not go to prayer, to plead with him for just one more day. I forgive myself for that now. I realized I was giving myself too much credit, making myself much more important that I need be. My baby was gone and I had not been dealt some punishment for any bad deed, or lack of faith, or been deemed unworthy. She died because she lived, because I lived, and death, sometimes of an innocent strong-willed baby, is part of that life. My eyes are now set on heaven with a different set of eyes. I'm no longer afraid of my own death, because I know that it will reunite me with my daughter. I have plenty of loved ones left here, but knowing a part of me lives somewhere that I can't reach right now makes it less scary. I know God is with me each and every day and it is through Him and the prayers of others that I have survived since February. I'm separated, for the rest of my life, from my daughter, so I have some idea what Hell is like, to be separated from for whom you'd gladly give your life. The idea of being separated from my children for eternity, well, it's given me the glimpse into Hell that you write about. I love what you wrote, I've never actually read the grief and thoughts of God of another mother. It's comforting to know that the same blinders were removed. We've been forced to consider things that others just take for granted, trite sayings regurgitated, given no real thought in attempts to help. I'm sorry for that, and please know, you aren't alone.mandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14412727865287984792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-78716133122239595032007-10-12T21:22:00.000-05:002007-10-12T21:22:00.000-05:00Boothe,Just checking in on you and wanted to say h...Boothe,<BR/>Just checking in on you and wanted to say hi. I think of you often; will never forget you & Copeland.<BR/>JenniferAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-20810738424435785912007-10-12T20:59:00.000-05:002007-10-12T20:59:00.000-05:00Interestingly, I was introduced to your blog throu...Interestingly, I was introduced to your blog through a blog from a friend who just had a baby. He and his wife sent it to us to share the good news of Isabelle's birth. The mother had been restless one night, anticipating the birth of her child when she was browsing through blogs and came across yours. In hers, she noted how thankful she was for her experience. She couldn't even begin to imagine all that you were going through. Once I started reading your thoughts, I felt as if I was with you through the entire journey. Upon reading of Copeland's passing, I wept as if I had known you personally. Your strength is amazing. You and Connor are Godly examples to a fallen world. Copeland's life did have a purpose. She touched hundreds - perhaps thousands of lives! God is smiling because of the lives this four-pound baby changed! Thank you so much for sharing. May God bless you all as you continue in the healing process. You are not alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383360252145675914.post-88924880310475227692007-10-12T19:46:00.000-05:002007-10-12T19:46:00.000-05:00Boothe- You are one amazing woman. Thank you so ...Boothe- You are one amazing woman. Thank you so much for being 'real' in every sense of the word. Reading your blog refreshes me.... as wierd as that may sound. I am expecting my first child in May and fear so much-you and your family have encouraged my heart, and I hope, my faith-b/c the sorrows and suffering will, at some point, come to us all. I pray that God will continue to use you, Conor and your family. You are precious to behold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com