A prayer for Po-Po
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank You for bringing Po-po back into Your fold. I praise the day when the Holy Spirit moved so strongly in her and led her to accept Jesus as her one true saviour. Lord, You have not forgotten her and her children and grandchildren's prayers for her. Your grace transcends any human understanding of what time, wisdom and love should and could be. When we gave up You showed what strength, when called upon, was.
Jesus I pray that her children will forgive their mother for what she did or did not do in the past. Lord only You know what she went through - the hurts of materialism, unforgiveness, rejection, indifference and bitterness. Jesus I pray that one day her family will be able to look back and realise that even if she wasn't the best mother or grandmother around, she was still their mother and grandmother, a woman who did her best for her life and knew what love was. Lord I pray for the salvation of my family by the blood and in the name of Jesus Christ. May there be reconciliation and forgiveness that only You can bring and sustain.
All these years of searching for comfort and love, and to find it on a hospital bed when she was all alone and knew not the passing of night and day, Lord! if You weren't there who could've been? Lord You filled the huge aching void in Po-po which had widened with every year that passed without her children or grandchildren acknowledging her presence and worth.
Jesus You saw through everything she did, forgave her sins, and truly perceived the beauty of her heart and soul. And I'm so happy she's with You now, in a place much better than any she's been on earth. A place without the pain of loneliness and the pains of cancer, bedsores, pneumonia and a fracture. Even though I couldn't see her for one last time I know I'll see her again, it's just a matter of time.
Today I celebrate the time I've spent with her. Though it hadn't been a lot, and I didn't treasure every bit of it, there's no regret or guilt. Lord thank You for allowing everything precious in her heart to reach a blessed conclusion - my departure to Melbourne, her grandson's month-old birthday, Lunar New Year celebrations. Who would have known how her time was to reach a close in such ways? Only You. It had been 90 years of joy and strife, anger and compassion, and I'm happy to have spent 20 years with her.
Lord this is what you have blessed me with: a relationship between grandmother, mother and daughter that cannot be replicated in any other way. Today marks the day when both the end of a life and the start of a new one begins. In You we are all children once more.
Jesus, in Your loving, gracious name I pray, Amen.
Thank You for bringing Po-po back into Your fold. I praise the day when the Holy Spirit moved so strongly in her and led her to accept Jesus as her one true saviour. Lord, You have not forgotten her and her children and grandchildren's prayers for her. Your grace transcends any human understanding of what time, wisdom and love should and could be. When we gave up You showed what strength, when called upon, was.
Jesus I pray that her children will forgive their mother for what she did or did not do in the past. Lord only You know what she went through - the hurts of materialism, unforgiveness, rejection, indifference and bitterness. Jesus I pray that one day her family will be able to look back and realise that even if she wasn't the best mother or grandmother around, she was still their mother and grandmother, a woman who did her best for her life and knew what love was. Lord I pray for the salvation of my family by the blood and in the name of Jesus Christ. May there be reconciliation and forgiveness that only You can bring and sustain.
All these years of searching for comfort and love, and to find it on a hospital bed when she was all alone and knew not the passing of night and day, Lord! if You weren't there who could've been? Lord You filled the huge aching void in Po-po which had widened with every year that passed without her children or grandchildren acknowledging her presence and worth.
Jesus You saw through everything she did, forgave her sins, and truly perceived the beauty of her heart and soul. And I'm so happy she's with You now, in a place much better than any she's been on earth. A place without the pain of loneliness and the pains of cancer, bedsores, pneumonia and a fracture. Even though I couldn't see her for one last time I know I'll see her again, it's just a matter of time.
Today I celebrate the time I've spent with her. Though it hadn't been a lot, and I didn't treasure every bit of it, there's no regret or guilt. Lord thank You for allowing everything precious in her heart to reach a blessed conclusion - my departure to Melbourne, her grandson's month-old birthday, Lunar New Year celebrations. Who would have known how her time was to reach a close in such ways? Only You. It had been 90 years of joy and strife, anger and compassion, and I'm happy to have spent 20 years with her.
Lord this is what you have blessed me with: a relationship between grandmother, mother and daughter that cannot be replicated in any other way. Today marks the day when both the end of a life and the start of a new one begins. In You we are all children once more.
Jesus, in Your loving, gracious name I pray, Amen.
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