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Date Posted: 15:04:37 06/17/00 Sat
Author: Gloria Sweigard-Valdez
Subject: Hope Page

My mother posted some of your poems on her site and you have added her HOPE page as a link at your site. I am glad that you have been joined via the internet. To see it used in this way makes up for the many DOWN SIDES that exist within the internet creation. On a different note: Personally I have not had to experience the grief, loss and despair that comes with the death of a loved one. However, my youngest brother is in prison. I had to be the one to put him there, though I realize the fault is not my own. I write to him as regularly as is possible. I talk to him in my heart as I go about my daily chores. And on some days, I grieve for him.
I grieve for his losses and the losses to us - his family - because of his incarceration. I live knowing that any day he could die. He could be killed or raped or a thousand other bad dreams that no sleeper desires to entertain. I miss his physical presence terribly. I sit on the edge of a vast pool of tears that I will not allow myself to cry. Instead, I choose to remain firmly planted in the hope that is mine through faith in the Lord. I believe that he will survive and be released BUT I came to that only after I realized that I would remain strong in God even if my brother did die while in prison. THAT was the hardest thing to accomplish. The hardest thing to accept. It seems that daily we all must die to something. Only sometimes that dying is more painful, more cutting than anything we care to experience. But for whatever reason, it seems that the people visited by pain and emotional trauma are the very same people upom whom God places much value within His kingdom. People of strength and virtue and grace. Only, they often don't realize that these qualities reside within until they are forced to the forefront. I don't believe that God forces them there. I just believe that other powers try to strip the virtuous qualitites from us, and in the act of trying to strip us, those powers actually play
right into the hands of God. In the end, we are equipped.
Equipped for a purpose far mightier than anything our minds could ever create. I think there will be a day when your pain melts and lessens in strength. It will be diluted by the power of the qualities with which you have been blessed.
Your poetry, your voice, your lives . . . they will all begin to reflect these wondrous changes. The life and memory of your child lost will be a source of pain no longer. I pray with you and for you that the time of this revelation will be soon. Take good care and God Bless.

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Re: Hope Page -- Sharon, 16:23:52 06/17/00 Sat
- Re: Hope Page -- Dennis Lipps, 10:18:07 06/20/00 Tue