*Poetry*
God looked around His garden
and He found an empty place,
He then looked down upon His earth
and saw your tired face
He put his arms around you
and lifted you to rest.
God's garden must be beautiful,
He always takes the best.
He knew that you were suffering,
He knew you were in pain.
He knew that you would never
get well on earth again.
He saw the road was getting rough
and the hills so hard to climb.
So He closed your weary eyelids
and said "Peace be thine".
It broke our hearts to lose you
but you didn't go alone
For a part of us went with you
the day God called you home.
God sends His "little angels"
In many forms and guises,
They come as lovely miracles
that God alone devises-
For He does nothing without purpose,
Everything's a perfect plan
To fulfill in bounteous measure
All He ever promised man-
For every "little angel"
With a body bent and broken,
Or a little mind retarded
Or little words unspoken,
Is just God's way of trying
To reach and touch the hand
Of all who do not know Him
And cannot understand
That often through an angel
Whose "wings will never fly"
The Lord is pointing out the way
To His eternal sky
Where there will be no handicaps
Of body, soul, or mind,
And where all limitations
Will be dropped and left behind-
So accept these "little angels"
As gifts from God above
And thank Him for this lesson
In Faith and Hope and Love.
Helen Steiner Rice
I held an Angel in my arms
for only a short while,
And when I think of the lives he touched
I can only smile.
He showed me things I could not see
and how I was so wrong,
Of how my Father loved me so
and I was away too long.
I gave my heart back to God
I am so alive again,
He opened up his loving arms
and pulled me close to Him.
Now when it all is said and done
again i will have to grin,
I will stand in Heaven with my Lord
and that Angel in my arms again.
Dear Mommy and Daddy,
I just wanted to let you know
that I made it home.
The journey wasn't an easy one,
but it didn't take too long.
Everything is so pretty here,
so white, so fresh and new.
I wish that you could close your eyes
and that you could see it too.
Please try not to be sad for me...
Try to understand.
God is taking care of me...
I'm in the shelter of His hands.
Here there is no sadness,
no sorrow, and no pain.
Here there is no crying,
and I'll never hurt again.
Here it is so peaceful
when all the angels sing,
I really have to go now-
I've just got to try my wings.
Darlene Browning
Email: jvenaas@radix.net
