How much does a loss cost?

[LifeHiscost]

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"I'll lend for you a little time a

child of Mine," He said.

For you to love the while she lives

and mourn for when she's dead...

It may be six or seven years, or twenty two or three,

But will you till I call her back,

take care of her for Me?

She'll bring you all her charms to gladden you,

and shall her stay be brief,

You'll have her lovely memories

as solace for your grief.

I cannot promise she will stay,

since all from earth return,

But there are lessons taught down there

I want this child to learn.

I've looked the wide world over

in My search for teachers true,

And from the throngs that crowd lifes lanes,

I have selected you.

Now will you give her all your love,

nor think the labor vain,

Nor hate Me when I come to call

to take her back again?

I fancied that I heard them say:

'Dear Lord, Thy will be done.

For all the joy Thy child shall bring,

the risk of grief we'll run.

We'll shelter her with tenderness,

we'll love her while we may,

For all the happiness we've known,

forever grateful stay.

But shall the angels call for her

much sooner than we've planned,

We'll brave the bitter grief that comes,

And try to understand'"

These were words of comfort given at the funeral of our precious little granddaughter, before she had yet to recognize who her grandparents were.

Little children are borne by holy angels to their mother's arms.GC 645

And I saw the little ones climb, or, if they chose, use their little wings and fly, to the top of the mountains and pluck the never-fading flowers.

Early Writings 19

"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words."1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 NKJV

Even so, come Lord Jesus!

Jesus/God saves!

[phkrause]

I like that LHC. Must be very heart wrenching when a little one dies way before its time. It kind of reminded me of a song that Eric Clapton wrote for his son, when he died, a few years back.