Jesus says, "Come unto me all ye that are heavy ladened and I will give you rest..." It is my firm belief that he means that.... We carry burdens on our shoulders sometimes for days, weeks, even months, when we could just carry it the cross and leave it..... That's it though, leaving it.... When we hurt, when we carry a heavy burden for someone especially someone that we love,(maybe a family member or a dear friend) it's hard to not pick it up again.... Though we lay it at the foot of the cross, something during the course of the day will bring it back to us....But that is the devil's way---to make us remember, to try to drag us back down.....

Reach out today, he is passing by---like the woman with the issue of blood---touch, the hem of his garment, he is waiting, he is faithful and he is TRUE.....There has been two times in my own life, that I have touched the Hem of his Robe.... Once was July 12, 2004, and then in May of last year..... How do I know I did, You know.... I felt such love like I've never known, I felt GOD'S presence, I felt PEACE in a time of torment of my soul and of my heart..... One of the issues has particially been righted, the other one I know GOD is working..... I was standing and reaching as far as I could reach, praying and I know, that I know that I know, that GOD will work it out....

I know that we have all been in a situation where we have done all we could do..... It is so frustrating to see someone so overwhelmed with a care, to hurt to the depth of their soul and not know what to say or to do, all we can do is pray for them........YET---not really been any help to someone who was hurting..... I'm only a woman, and my help is very limited---but I know one who CAN do what I can't.... Jesus CAN!!!!!!!!!!!

Today, at lunch, I was with some friends and we sat at a table across from a young man with 2 children, and I guess his parents.... This young man, cried during the entire meal, he literally had tears running down his face, and I could feel his pain, and his hurt.... I got up out of my chair and went to him, I just gently put my arm around his shoulder, and I told him, "Hon, I don't know what your trouble is, but I care, and I'm praying for you...." He looked up at me, and said, and whispered, "thank you," and I went back to my seat.... That seemed to really touch him more and he cried more, but as they left I asked him his name and he said Clay, and he said "Thank you, for caring and for your prayers." Remember this young man, as you pray.... Only GOD knows his heartache and his pain, but GOD is good, and GOD will take care of it....

You always seem to write things that make me cry. I have also touched the hem of his garment,actually it was at a Crabb Family concert and Jason was talking about letting go of past mistakes and just basically what you said,giving things to God and then taking it back. Jason said all those who want prayer come to the alter and I did, he just kept saying " LET IT GO " and finally , that night ,I did ! I am a professional worrier so satan had a blast with me but he can't take me there anymore because I refuse to go ! Thank you for all your wonderful post ! You have such a sweet spirit about you ! :pray:

Thank You Sabrina... That means alot... God bless ya...

sigh. :'( i love your posts.

Great words Joy. I too can say I have touched the hem of his garment a few times in my life. Thank you for all your great words. :WOW: :s85:

I have a very dear and precious friend in my life that was horribly and violently sexually abused in her childhood by her father... He did despicable things to this precious girl and left her with alot of scars... She and I and another friend have seemed to form a bond that is so close... Missy, as I will call her has come so far in the last year. I have seen her grow and to become more of the woman that GOD wants her to be... These scars she will carry with her the rest of her life, but... with GOD'S help she will overcome them.... What is so tragic also, she was taken from her home by the state and put in a foster home where once again she was sexually abused.... She has the sweetest spirit and the best attitude... She has two children, and she is a good mother.... She told me once that she had two choices, she could continue the pattern of abuse, or she could BREAK it... SHE chose to break it... Sometimes, I want to help her with something and I get so frustrated that I don't know how to help her... Just like the song says, I am only HUMAN, and I can only do so much... BUT I know one who can help where I can't.... I heard Ricky Atkinson sing this song (the author of the song) and he said he wrote it for his sister.... Missy is my sister in spirit...
God will help her, NO, GOD is helping her.... One thing, Missy doesn't cry, and I believe that when she really lets go and cries from the heart----healing will began from the heart out.... Just remember Missy when YOU Pray.... We think we have problems, but...... then there is always someone with problems more severe than ours.... but GOD is the healer of them all.....