Remembering Maria

For those of you who know and love Steven Curtis Chapmans music or even dont know and maybe do read more of this... man...this is sad for the family, but we thank God that His hand of grace is upon them

"Boisterous and full of life, she loved flowers, ladybugs, birds, anything with wings, coloring, washing dishes, playing make-believe, the color pink, being "butt-naked", water, and her family. Her life was a picture of God's beauty; her adoption was a picture of God's love; her joy was a picture of God's fullness; and her love was a picture of God's grace. Her family certainly, certainly loved her, and through the love of her family, she became beloved by the entire world."

See the interview here
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=wh2VFkF7NLo
:(

Quote that touched me was

"we're told we're family of great faith
but we a family with lots of questions
But isnt that what faith is
faith is living with the questions"

Wrote this part last night(blogger wasnt working)

Once again should be sleeping but just stumbled across the news that Steven Curtis Chapman's youngest daughter has been killed by accident. Seeing a little video made in tribute to her on youtube and they use the song With hope. which is making me a bit sad, cause i guess when Steven wrote that song he never knew that it may happen to his family too... And yes she is in heaven, even i am blessed by the little videos and pictures they have placed on the net, but at the same time I am asking God right now just to cover their family in this time. It cant be easy. And is making me think of something I've been saying a while now after things have happened in my own life, and Rewrite this tragedy has been ministering to me. Just said we are all living bold and the beautiful lifes. Life can be really crappy at times, but through God we know that this is not the way it needs to end but there's a better story...

God thankyou that you are the author and perfector of our faith and rightnow Maria is with you...

Amen


Lastly...When u listen to all the hope in the recording. U wonder can it trully be so? But on one of the interviews I read, Stevens Pastor says that it's the fact that God is real and their faith in God that sustains them in this time. That's true. Outside of the situation I can only imagine that if it were me I'd be devastated. Yet in the worst times of my life and even when my faith levels were low, my Real God. The only living God, came through for me

Father, I commit to You the Chapman Family. Lord Thank you that with you we can grieve with hope, thankyou that when everything just wants to fall apart that is when Your strength is perfect. Love You Lord

*****

so much ashes, yet amidst it there's beauty
so much pain, yet in it lies a crown
so much brokenness, yet through it we are stronger
so much hate, yet we can find unending love

though life is hard, thats not the way the story needs to end
though times are tough, if we would only hang in there
there is a way, a hope, a road that leads to life
there is a God, who feels your pain, and lifts you up

If we can only hold on,
Look into his loving eyes
We'll find the strength
We'll find the breath to live

If we can only hold on,
look into his loving eyes
We'll see his for us
Even now...
His working out the plan to see us through



The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases
His mercies never will come to an end
They are new every morning
They are new every morning
Great is your faithfulness, O Lord
Great is your faithfulness