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Archive for the ‘Dealing With Loss’

Losing a Loved One

September 20, 2009 By: Elmer Category: Dealing With Loss

As some of you might know, The Whisper of God community has grown substantially over the past ten days due to a new FaceBook page that I launched.  As part of the page, many members of our community have been sending in prayer requests.  One struck me this morning that said:

“I ask for prayers for my families esp my daughters and I; we just lost our husband, son, brother, and dad. he took ill on his way to iraq. thank you”

I wrote the following in response to this prayer request:

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Grieving For a Friend

July 30, 2009 By: Elmer Category: Dealing With Loss

If I were to rank yesterday on a scale of 1 to 10, I don’t think it would even reach the scale to be measured.  To say the news we got yesterday was not good would be an understatement.

Within a matter of about three minutes, I received bad news about three people close to us.

We received news of a friend of ours being shot to death in his home country in Central America.   

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