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06-15-2007, 05:08 AM
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Create Your Own Rainbows!
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Ditto what Brett said - not even knowing him hurts. I am praying for his family.
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06-15-2007, 10:41 PM
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GO CUBBIES!
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06-16-2007, 12:27 PM
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Bro. Y, I'll never forget...
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"Rules without relationship lead to rebellion." Dr. James Dobson
"You don't need a license to preach, or teach, or win souls." RonB
"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength." Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. ~ John Andrew Holmes
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06-16-2007, 04:41 PM
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Bro. Y, I'll never forget...
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A Poem written to Cai Larsen
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those who have gone on to meet their Maker much too young,
perhaps with an unwritten song in their heart waiting to be loosed & sung.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those who could have discovered the cure to life's diseases,
or boldly guarded our coasts and shores while sailing the dangerous seas.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those whose names and needs I never even knew to pray,
It is through the language of flowing tears and weaping do I now say,
Why couldn't I have died instead?
I'm ready to face my eternity because I have learned to know the Lord,
yet there are those that haven't yet grasped the crimson, scarlet cord.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those who to no fault of their own crossed pathes with Death,
Oh I. For that soul would I willingly give my blood and very last breath.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those whose purpose in life was not completed nor at its end,
not understanding why it all happened, my heart is now torn and rend.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
My dear friend Cai, I will miss you greatly in this short time we call life,
I know you're in a better place now, yet your loss still cuts me like a knife.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
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"Rules without relationship lead to rebellion." Dr. James Dobson
"You don't need a license to preach, or teach, or win souls." RonB
"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength." Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. ~ John Andrew Holmes
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06-16-2007, 04:44 PM
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My Family!
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Collierville, TN
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Because God isn't finished with you yet.
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Master of Science in Applied Disgruntled Religious Theorist Wrangling
PhD in Petulant Tantrum Quelling
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06-16-2007, 06:05 PM
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the ultracon
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: smack dab in da middle
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Can't imagine the pain of those who knew and loved Cai must be feeling.
Iam blessed to have a pastor that is also 34 and also has a 1 year old daughter and 3 and 7 year old son's.
Due to a recent wind storm we had much tree damage at the church and adjoining parsonage and have been dropping what's left standing of a giant soft maple behind the parsonage.
I can not phathom what our pain would be had this happened here at our home church.
Our prayers have went out today to those of you who knew and loved Cai and especilly for his wife and children.
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06-16-2007, 06:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Malvaro
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those who have gone on to meet their Maker much too young,
perhaps with an unwritten song in their heart waiting to be loosed & sung.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those who could have discovered the cure to life's diseases,
or boldly guarded our coasts and shores while sailing the dangerous seas.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those whose names and needs I never even knew to pray,
It is through the language of flowing tears and weaping do I now say,
Why couldn't I have died instead?
I'm ready to face my eternity because I have learned to know the Lord,
yet there are those that haven't yet grasped the crimson, scarlet cord.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those who to no fault of their own crossed pathes with Death,
Oh I. For that soul would I willingly give my blood and very last breath.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those whose purpose in life was not completed nor at its end,
not understanding why it all happened, my heart is now torn and rend.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
My dear friend Cai, I will miss you greatly in this short time we call life,
I know you're in a better place now, yet your loss still cuts me like a knife.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
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Mal,
I've been where you are right now ... I laid in ICU with a breathing tube in my throat begging the doctors to take me back into the operating room after learning that the live donor transplant that would have saved my father's life was aborted ... I begged them to take my whole liver ... I insisted he was a better man than I.
I knew this would end w/ his eventual death ... and this very question haunted me for months after his death in November 2005.
Cai must've been as special as he. This poem gives a glimpse of his greatness and your love for him.
The questions are legitimate ... and great men of God have asked similar questions to He who knows all things
... among them Job, David, Isaiah ...
Yet Renda's answer ... is the right one ...
The writer of Ephesians tells us ...
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
I also encourage you to read God's answer to Job's litany of questions ...
Job 38 and Job 39
I know our Redeemer lives!!!!
P.S
To those who knew Cai ... I'm sorry for your loss ... May God hold you and be reminded He's been by our side the entire time.
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06-16-2007, 06:50 PM
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HART2HART
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
Mal,
I've been where you are right now ... I laid in ICU with a breathing tube in my throat begging the doctors to take me back into the operating room after learning that the live donor transplant that would have saved my father's life was aborted ... I begged them to take my whole liver ... I insisted he was a better man than I.
I knew this would end w/ his eventual death ... and this very question haunted me for months after his death in November 2005.
Cai must've been as special as he. The questions are legitimate ... and great men of God have asked similar questions to He who knows all things
... among them Job, David, Isaiah ...
Yet Renda's answer ... is the right one ...
The writer of Ephesians tells us ...
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
I also encourage you to read God's answer to Job's litany of questions ...
Job 38 and Job 39
I know our Redeemer lives!!!!
P.S
To those who knew Cai ... I'm sorry for your loss ... May God hold you and be reminded He's been by our side the entire time. |
WOW! DA, What an incredible story. May God bless you and give you a full life to continue his witness in you.
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06-16-2007, 06:55 PM
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Location: H-Town, Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by H2H
WOW! DA, What an incredible story. May God bless you and give you a full life to continue his witness in you.
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H2H,
my witness pales to men that lived a Christ-like life ... like Cai Larsen and Manuel Alicea.
My prayer is to be able to share what God has done w/ me ... and love those who have tough questions ... knowing I don't have the answers but to share Him who is THE ANSWER.
In the Master's workshop,
Dan
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06-16-2007, 09:45 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Louisiana
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Brother I am praying for you.Its not easy to lose a close friend.Today
we were speaking of Sister Larsen and praying for her.It would be so
good if she could be with her family for the time being.She has very loving
parents and alot of support from them.God is good.
This is the second family we know of this year who has lost someone very
significant to the Kingdom of God.Our dear friend James Randall was in his
late forties and now his wife and daughter are having to fight the fight without him.It does not seem fair I know but we never know what may
have happened to someone down the road.Jesus is in control.God knows each of our hearts and when its time to call us home He will.
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