My love is gone....

My sweet William passed Thursday, January 26th at 5:15pm.  His journey to the Lord was painful to the end.  He held my hand till the very last and I was with him until he left the house.  Love at first site, love at last sight.


Our love was a thing to behold.  I have 52 years of wonderful, wonderful memories.  Service is tomorrow and I am dreading greeting people as I know I will break down when I see the ones who loved him so much, from work, from home, from family and friends.


I thank each and every one of you who have traveled this horrendous journey with us through seven long years of having Multiple Myeloma cancer.  Bill was the bravest man I know and taken from us much too soon.  God is so good and I take comfort in knowing Bill is with the Lord and our first two babies that passed and all of our loved ones who have gone before us.


My grief is great but I know the Lord and Bill are surrounding me with love and I will make it through.
Love and hugs, Kerrie

LIVING WATER

"Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink.  As the scripture has said, 'Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water."  John7:37-38


God's word, love and caring is ever flowing.  God is there at all times to receive your prayers, your sorrows, your joy, your all.  This is why the Bible is called the Living Bible.  It is never out of date, it does not limit its hours, it does not require scholars nor expense to study it.  It speaks to us wherever we are in our lives.  


If you are thirsting for Living Water, for comfort and solace, you will find it in God's and His Son's words in the Bible.  Read on, all you who are thirsty....

Dear hearts, I just learned of another battle lost, but heaven's gain.  One of my dear blogging friends has lost her brother-in-law to Multiple Myeloma.  She said he was ready to go and was looking forward to being with the Lord.  He removed his oxygen mask and was gone almost instantly.  We are all praying avidly for a cure to this horrendous cancer that devastates the bones in the spine preventing the normal production of blood.  Perhaps it is too late for some of the victims, we pray that the future will hold hope for others who suffer from this or any deadly cancer.  Thanking you for all of you who pray for my husband and for the others on the Prayer List in the sidebar.
   God bless and see you next time...

My Christian heart to yours...

The Praying Woman....

Are you a praying woman?  I can also ask, Are you a praying man?  But today I am asking the women as last year I was given this Prayer Journal.  Knowing that I love books, the Lord and writing, it was a perfect gift.  I have many journals, even written in shorthand notebooks with illustrations doodled here and there and they number much more than a few.
   When I was growing up, I wrote poetry, I wrote when I was mad and when I was sad and also when I was filled with joy.  The paper and pen has always been a comfort to me and now the Lord has made it a blessing.  I found my "Power of a Praying Woman" journal today and wanted to share it with you.  Sometimes, when I have not read one of my poems for a long time, I cannot believe I wrote the words myself.  Surely God was guiding my hand.

If you have read entries in my sidebar,  or any other of my blogs, you know that my husband is in the 6th year of fighting the devastating Multiple Myeloma cancer in his spine.  It changed our lives a lot and sometimes I really miss that other us before the illness came.  I pray more than once a day that God will lay his healing hand upon my sweet husband and make him whole again...

Talking with God and writing down my thoughts and prayers are theraputic for me and so I will share with you my poem of 11/22/10:

      I Walk Alone

©Kerrie O'Hearn Marquart

Sometimes, I walk alone~

even though I know you  are there.

It is hard for me to open my heart

To let you in when I despair

And I know you are beside me

No matter how hard the walk.

And all I really need to do,

Is talk to you, just talk.

To lift my voice in prayer

To a heavenly Father who cares.

Even before I speak, you know

My every need when I am low.

You pick me up when e'er I fall

You dust me off and I am tall,

To meet each new day I see,

Thank you Lord for being there for me.

             11-22-10

And God is always there for us!  Sometimes don't you just need to talk with someone intimately, who understands you completely without judgement like a lifelong friend?  Well the Lord and his Son Jesus are your life-long and beyond friends!  You can open your heart to them, tell them anything you want to.  You can confess your sins and they shall be made white as snow and God will never think of them again!  Your heart will be a clean slate, wiped clean.

2 Corinthians 5:17 If any man is in Christ, he is a new being.  The old is gone, the new hath come.

That is comforting, is it not?  I send hugs to you through time and space and invite you to become friends with your Creator and His Son Jesus who died on the cross so that we might have life everlasting.  Thank Him now that he loves you and me so much that he made this sacrifice like no other.

Are you willing to get on your knees?  I get on my knees in humbleness by my bedside at times and my heart is filled with joy.  God Bless and do come again soon, thank you for letting me share some of my personal talk and walk with Jesus today.

♥KERRIE♥
My Christian heart to yours...