{"id":274,"date":"2024-02-27T22:54:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T03:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=274"},"modified":"2025-05-21T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:29:12","slug":"family-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Family Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAMILY REUNION  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My heart has been torn into by the events I once again must endure,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Never had I felt such forlorn and emptiness on this earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For once again I have traveled the path I thought impossible,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The sadness within my heart causes tears within my eyes to pool.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not long ago this scene I had been a part of and I find that it seems,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Now I am feeling as though I am somehow living within a dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It cannot be that one has to endure the pain within my heart,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Once again I have seen one I loved so dearly from this world depart.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How can this be that I have not once but twice so soon to have lost,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Those I hold so dearly in my life, for I cannot bear the cost.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Of a lifetime of ties that have been suddenly ripped apart,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And within my being now lies a shattered, broken and bleeding heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Help me this day to see how this could possibly bring anything good,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For my life I&#8217;d gladly laid down in place of my loved ones if I could.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oh to see something worth living beyond this day that I am in,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Would be at least something to help me start living life once again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Afar in the distance dimly I see something coming within my vision,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is it possible that I have been given an answer to the reason.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Of why I must go on in this my journey upon this earth which I now trod,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I find myself held close to a being like none other and I know it is God.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He is telling me this is not what I had wanted for you to have endured,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For I had created mankind to live forever without a single fear or tear.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In time to come all sorrow and pain will be erased with no trace about,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t give up, a mansion awaits you and yours in your Father&#8217;s&nbsp; house.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where our loved ones will gather once again in a reunion the like never before seen,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And looking back upon this life we now live in will seem but like a dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For the reality is, this world is but a testing ground upon which we now do trod.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A family reunion will be given like none seen before, for the children of God.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author by God&#8217;s grace, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;May 23, 2010<\/strong>    <strong>Sharon Rose Lawless<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAMILY REUNION My heart has been torn into by the events I once again must endure, Never had I felt such forlorn and emptiness on this earth. For once again I have traveled the path I thought impossible, The sadness within my heart causes tears within my eyes to pool. 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