Sad ending, new beginning
Several of you that read my blog already know the ends and outs of my life over the last week.
This week and its holdings changed my life...forever.
This will be my last posting on this blog. I will close it here and start anew somewhere else...some day. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'd love to talk with you, eventually. Call me next week sometime and I will update you on how to find me. I will not be putting that information here.
"Peace for today and bright hope for tomorrow,"
Tamra
posted by Tamra Perkinson @ 3:17 PM
18 Comments:
I LOVE YOU, TAMRA!!
i love you too and miss you terribly. i'm praying for you
Oh, Tamara... I pray you are all okay. I will give you time before I call to see how you are. Please know that whatever it is you are in my thoughts and prayers......
God Bless, Cynthia
Tamra,
We are praying for you and I love you dearly. I am here if / when you need me. Call me for anything.
love, ann
Tamara, I have been reading your blog for awhile now. I am thinking and praying for you. I hope that you are okay.
Jennifer Ladewig
I love you. I will try to call you tomorrow night (Monday). I hurt all over for you. You are beautiful!
"If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?" "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, 'For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.' No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure of this that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present not things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:31b,32;35-39
I just had to remind you of the Gospel...your greatest need has already been met and He has promised to never leave you nor forsake you. May we your friends be expressions of His great love for you during this time.
Loving you,
Mindy
We are eager to see the way God will show His grace in you. Let us all cling to Him and long for His glory!
I love you so much sweet Tamra!
"I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. he put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.
Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false Gods.
Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare."
Psalms 40:1-5
This is my prayer for you. I love you!
Danyel
I am a friend whom you have never met, a sister in Christ in Maryland.
I am deeply affected by your love for Jesus and your decision to honor Him and glorify Him in every aspect of your life.
I am in frequent prayer for you.
I love you and pray God's lavish love, care and attention be manifest in every area of your life.
Enjoy the following meditation from Charles Spurgeon...
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"I know their sorrows."
Exodus 3:7
The child is cheered as he sings, "This my father knows"; and shall not we be comforted as we discern that our dear Friend and tender soul-husband knows all about us?
1. He is the Physician, and if he knows all, there is no need that the patient should know. Hush, thou silly, fluttering heart, prying, peeping, and suspecting! What thou knowest not now, thou shalt know hereafter, and meanwhile Jesus, the beloved Physician, knows thy soul in adversities. Why need the patient analyze all the medicine, or estimate all the symptoms? This is the Physician's work, not mine; it is my business to trust, and his to prescribe. If he shall write his prescription in uncouth characters which I cannot read, I will not be uneasy on that account, but rely upon his unfailing skill to make all plain in the result, however mysterious in the working.
2. He is the Master, and his knowledge is to serve us instead of our own; we are to obey, not to judge: "The servant knoweth not what his lord doeth." Shall the architect explain his plans to every hodman on the works? If he knows his own intent, is it not enough? The vessel on the wheel cannot guess to what pattern it shall be conformed, but if the potter understands his art, what matters the ignorance of the clay? My Lord must not be cross-questioned any more by one so ignorant as I am.
3. He is the Head. All understanding centres there. What judgment has the arm? What comprehension has the foot? All the power to know lies in the head. Why should the member have a brain of its own when the head fulfils for it every intellectual office? Here, then, must the believer rest his comfort in sickness, not that he himself can see the end, but that Jesus knows all. Sweet Lord, be thou for ever eye, and soul, and head for us, and let us be content to know only what thou choosest to reveal.
"Hush, my silly, fluttering heart, prying, peeping, and suspecting." Thank you for that incredible encouragement and love in the Lord. God bless you!
Hey Tammy, I'm prayin for ya'll and love your family very much.
Tamra,
We are praying that you would continue to trust God during this difficult time.
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. -Psalm 25:18
Wanted to share this from Charles Spurgeon:
It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins-when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly absorbed with our pain, but remember our offenses against God. It is well, also, to take both sorrow and sin to the same place. It was God that David carried his sorrow, and it was to God that David confessed his sin. Notice that we must take our sorrows to God. You may give even your little sorrows to God, for He counts the hairs of your head; your great sorrows you may commit to Him, for He holds the ocean in the hollow of His hand. Go to Him, whatever your present trouble may be, and you will find Him willing and able to relieve you. But we must take our sins to God, too. We must carry them to the cross so that blood may fall upon them, to purge away their guilt and to destroy their defiling power. The special lesson of th text is this: in the right spirit, we are to go to the Lord with our sorrows and our sins. Note that all David asked concerning his sorrow was, “Look upon mine affliction and my pain.” But the next petition is vastly more precise, definite, decided, plain: “Forgive all my sins.” Many sufferers would have put it, “Remove my affliction and my pain and look at my sins.” But David did not say this. He cried, “Lord, as for my afflication and my pain, I will not dictate your wisdom. Lord, look at them. I will leave them to You. I would be glad to have my pain removed, but do as You desire. But as for my sins, Lord, I know what I want to happen to them. I must have them forgiven; I cannot endure to lie under their curse for a moment longer.” A Christian considers sorrow to be lighter on the scale than sin; he can bear it if his troubles continue, but he cannot support the burden of his trangressions.
love,
Patricia
Tamra,
This song has been ministering to me over the past few months, so I wanted to pass the lyrics along to you. I'm not sure if you have the Worship God Live album that they recorded at our church, but this song is on that album.
Count It All Joy
Lord I’ll count it all joy
When my troubles
Close me in on every side
Lord, I’ll count it all joy
When this road of faith
Runs through the darkest night
For I know You’re at work in me
Yes I know You’ll provide
All the grace I need
Chorus
You have always been my Rock
I will trust You forever, forever
You have never failed me God
I will trust You forever, forever
Lord I’ll count it all joy
When the weight of sorrow
Drives me to my knees
Every heartache and pain
In Your mighty hands
Is forming Christ in me
And I know that Your Word is true
Yes, I know every trial
Will only prove
Bridge
Who can separate us
From You and Your great love
Count it All Joy by Steve & Vikki Cook
© 2004 Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP)
Tamra,
Well, if you are not posting, I at least hope you are reading every once and a while. I am not sure what happened too you, but I know heartache when I see it. I also place a great deal of value in hope. In fact, it has comforted me many times. You are probably wondering who I am? I am just a ghost from your past that apparntly took too long to find you. You were once like a sister to me, though you may not even know it. I share your birthday with you. If you figure it out, you can find me at first name.last name@sbcglobal.net I would love to hear from you.
Tamra,
It has been a long time. Please call me sometime. I would love to talk to you and share with you my heart. You are in Sterling and my prayers and we truly hurt for you. We love you. My email address is edwjohn330@yahoo.com Email me when you get a moment.
In His Grace,
Jenna Edwards
Hi Tamra,
You don't know me either, but I have been reading your blog since you posted that beatiful photo of Danyel & Ryan's little girl. I am a member of their church is West Columbia, and was glad to find out about you in such a special way. Please know that you have been a blessing to many, an inspiration to all, and that God will carry you through what ever might be troubling your heart. Thanks for sharing yours so bravely. I really appreciate you! My husband keeps a prayer blog that you might enjoy. I'll pass it on should you like to check it out. http://coachsamprayerjournal.blogspot.com/
I wish God's abundant blessings on you and your family!
Your sister in Christ,
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