From: Pray Jessiah Comes Home
Date: Dec 1 2006 5:28 PM
So. I don't even know where to begin. This is hard to write. So many positive thoughts and prayers were said but I am afraid the outcome isn't good. Those that live in Clarksville probably already have the news if they watched today. Jessiah was found in the river. I don't have words. It simply doesn't make sense. I guess there is closure to a certain extent but I can't help but cry. We lost a husband to my sister, a father to his son, a son to his mother, a grandchild to all his grandparents, a cousin, a friend, a family member. Forever we will remember Jessiah in our hearts. Keep praying this is a very very very hard time for Erin, Tracy and the rest of the family and friends. If you live in Clarksville the memorial service will be on Wednesday of this coming week. I don't know time yet though so look in the paper or I will try and find out. There are no words. Just prayers for strength and understanding. Thank you all for your support and prayers. I know Erin is grateful to all of you for holding her up thus far but she needs it more now than ever, as does everyone else immediately involved.
Julie (Erin's sister)
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Heavenly Father,
I come to You with a broken heart.
I know that You know my heart and my thoughts so there is no reason to hide what I want to say.
I am angry Father.I do not understand how a Daddy can be taken from his child only 2 days after returning home from protecting our country.I know that it has happened before that a Military hero returns only to be killed in a sensless murder or a traffic accident.It makes me feel so sad.
A little baby will now grow up to not feel the arms of his daddy when he cries.He will not see the laughter in his eyes when he watches him do something for the first time.
A wife who waited so long will not get to hold her husband at night.She is now truelly a single parent.She waited so patiently for him to come home Father...now she is alone.
I know that there is going to be an autopsy Father.
I ask this.I ask that if there was fowl play involved that you help the authorities find the person or people involved.I ask Father for justice.It says that You know the hearts of everyone.That makes You the ultimate Judge Father. I ask that if this man was murdered that whomever is responsible get the death penalty.I know that a lot of Christians do not beleive in the death penalty Father...but I also know that it says to send all murderes to You.I want a clear message sent to society that they cannont murder our heroes and get away with it.
I ask Father that You be with this family now and bring comfort and healing.We have all seen unfathemable streingth in our Military wives...but we ask that you let her be week right now.We ask that You let her do what she needs to do to greive and we ask that her friends and family surround her and comfort her with love.
We ask Heavenly Father that You draw her closer to you right now.Help her feel You in a time where she may wish she didn't feel anything.
I ask Father that You help this baby to get to know his father.Let him hear all the storys of his daddy the hero,the strong and the brave.Help him to know how much he meant to his daddy.Help him Father at times that he is going to feel angry at You.And when and if it is ever time...help a man come into this familys life that will love him just as much as her daddy did.
Not a man to replace her daddy because he is not replaceable.But,a man to bring the physical manifestation of both You and the man they lost through him.We all know that a person relates their love to You and their relationship with You to their relationship with their daddys.So we ask Heavenly Father that their not be a void.
In truth Heavenly Father...this man was a manifestation of you in a lot of ways.You say no greater love has a man that he should lay down his life for another....and we know that he was willing,we also know that he may have.You were the Word and the Word became Flesh...and You as flesh was not here long enough to most of us.You died in a way we didn't expect or want to see.
It says to be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord...well,Heavenly Father...the man that came home to you is a Heroe and he deserved the greeting of "Well done,though good and faithful servant."
Are words come to you in the name of you Son Jesus.
Amen
