Lord! What More!!!
I have to start off by saying, in the short history of kleverkathy.com, this is the most gut wrenching post I’ve written. As I thought of what to call this post to grab your attention and make you read this story, my first thought was to simply call it “A Praying Spirit Throughout The Day Part II”. I realized that was too soft and subtle. That didn’t correctly convey the direness of this situation. I needed something to get you to understand the urgency of you all touching and agreeing with me in prayer. I need you to pray! I need you to once again pray for my co-worker Carol. Remember Carol and her overwhelming family tragedies? For those who don’t know and for those who need reminding, let me rewind and briefly recap.
Carol lost her father a few days before Thanksgiving. She went home to Guam to bury him and her mother fell ill. She recovered enough for Carol to come home but a few weeks later took a turn and died right after the New Year. She went home to bury her mother and while there her Aunt fell ill and died. Two weeks ago Carol went home for her brother’s wedding. A day or two after the wedding, they were fishing. Carol’s other brother’s line got caught in some rocks. He went in to untangled it, the waters became too much, his lungs filled with water and he drowned. Lord! What More!!! Dad, Mom, Aunt and now brother.
Fastforward… Carol is still in Guam following her brother death and funeral. She had planed to return in a couple of days. Yesterday her sister fell ill, went to the doctor, was told she had an infection in her lungs, was hospitalized and died this morning. (long pause and heavy sigh…)
What? What? What? I myself am so sad and distraught; I can’t imagine Carol and her family’s unbelievable grief. How in the world do so many families escape family deaths and then others are bludgeoned with the despair of death over and over and over? I know God and I love God and I believe God and have served Him all my life. I think questioning God is a gray area and definitely shouldn’t be a common practice, however, today I find myself entering those gray murky waters as I ask: why God and how much more?
Carol is financially and emotionally spent. All we can do is help her financially, supply a shoulder to cry on, pray for her and know God is the only one that can carry her through this ongoing storm.
I have nothing else to say. Just pray for her. Holla back…
WOW!!!!!!!! The only thing I can say briefly due to this overwhelming me is that if we really BELIEVE we have to know that we know we have a loving and all knowing Father and we have to apply HIS word to our EVERY situation and trust Him as Proverbs tells us, know He’ll never leave us as Hebrews tells us, know that He knows the plans He has for our lives as Jeremiah tells us and then, most of all (which is the hardest of all) REST in the Lord as again Psalms tells us. Carol will be in my thoughts and prayers for the Lord to give her everything she needs. Meanwhile, as my guy Donald Lawrence wrote, we have to LET THE WORD DO THE WORK!!!!!
@Karol Ann – love offering worthy…
Karol Ann took the word right out of my mouth…..WOW! I agree with Karol Ann. There’s a couple of scriptures in Psalm I like. Psalm 34:17 says “The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.” And Psalm 118:5 says “I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answereth me, and set me in a large place.” I don’t know what kind of relationship she has with my GOOD Jesus but that’s where intercession comes in. We will have to hold her up in prayer.
Please do continue to pray. I got an update that now her other brother is in the hospital. Unbelievable…
It is almost like the story of jJb. Before he could digest what was happening in one tragedy here the people came with more bad news. When I was reading this I thought about Job and how is friends were asking him what did he do and what sin had he committed. But Job had not done anything. I don’t know if this women is a believer or not but one thing I know is that God is allowing her to be tried… Job begin to question God and ask why was I even born. So I don’t think that asking God why is a bad thing. The word of God states, “In all our getting get an understanding”. Sometimes we need to questing the thing at hand in order to know. She must hold fast and know that Job was rewarded a doublefold of all that he lost. I am not trying to be so spiritual because I don’t know how I would be able to handle losing my mother let alone the rest that she has lost. what I am saying to her is try to find God in the mist of all this! Try to see the big picture. Our prayers will go out for her.
Rae Jean Clinton
@Rae Jean Clinton – thank you Beulah. Appreciate the words and the prayers.
Rae Jean is the NAME KATHY! LOL!
@Rae Jean Clinton – lol. You know how I am!
I?m 24 weeks pregnant, I don?t really count in months.