Death of estranged sibbling...

 

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Txt 2 group: Hi friends..we are almost at our holiday destination. My estranged  brother died in Orange this morning.  I had not seen him for 7 years and don't have any details.

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TxtBack:

Dear Sis, I hear that life goes on for you,

but still the grief of undone things remains,

or things done years gone by, to someone who

you loved, though can't redress. We hear your pain.

The death in Orange, when you left the place,

the 7 years unseen, the details not

(yet, anyway). God, if you can, please trace

a way to free her brother from that rot!

We're glad you called us friends, and feel that's true,

and know that Jesus wants his family

to learn to open up, as he would do,

and share his overwhelming grief quite free.

But I am scared, a bit, that as his mates

could nod assent to pray, then overcome

themselves with sadness, ti-red-ness, it states,

they could not keep themselves with him for some

time, hence I try to sit with you, and God,

and ask God to bring closure, as we said,

and that the peace he gives you means a lot,

and that you can "pay forward", on ahead.

I don't know (and I know you mightn't  too),

why he would not let you see him, while he 

"lived". Sometimes I suspect that people do

not want their lives compared, in case folk see…

He mightn't feel he really lived that well.

Depending on his choice to let life in.

Oh God, if you sent Jesus into Hell

to herald to some folk, quite lost in sin

I'd like to ask you to do that a-gain.

He said Hell's gates would not hold out against

the bride of Jesus. So we won't disdain

the possibilities - for all our friends,

and want to gladly seize the timing when

you give us chance to be someone who tends

to trust you more than what we understand.

We pray you'll give these two ol' folk a hand.

And that you'll make a way so fam'ly's cracks

are healed by grief and tears, behind their backs

where love has grown its own unbidden tracks

and friendship can be lived, and grown in stacks.

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