Thinking of you Gabriel and your Precious Family / Jenny Tavendale Mum To Ross
In Loving Memory of Gabriel / Carol Pizzi (Angel Debbie's Mom )
Thinking of you / Debra Reagan Clint's Mom (Kate's friend ) "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for a little while, leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same."
-Author unknown
Thinking of Gabe, Ben and Kate.
We Remember You / Debra Reagan Clint's Mom (Kate's friend )
In the rising of the sun and in its going down, We remember you. in the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter, We remember you. In the opening of buds and in the rebirth of spring, We remember you. In the blueness of the sky and the warmth of summer, We remember you. In the rustling of leaves and in the beauty of autumn, We remember you. In the beginning of the year and when it ends, We remember you. When we are weary and in need of strength, When we are lost and sick at heart, When we have joys we yearn to share, We remember you. So long as we live, you too shall live, For you are now a part of us, as we remember you.
From a Hebrew Book of Prayer
Happy Birthday, Gabe!!! We will remember you always!!!
Dear Katie. After reading so much about what you wrote about your sweet angel Gabriel... i just felt the urge to write to you... i so wish i could (((HUG))) you katie. I feel your deep pain as i read & read what you have been writing. Beautiful verses from the Bible... and so on... tears just kept flowing. Katie It don't matter what people say or what they think... people can be so mean.. It's us that have lost a child not them... It's us that hurt... its our pain ... not theres. Just because we seek answer honey it dont mean we lost our faith in God... I get so angry at times i want to scream... and say why why why why??? my baby.. why wasim .. he was so sweet and harmless... had so much to live for... me and wasim lived a torment life in yemen... he watched me cry... he felt my pain... and when i finally came back to the Uk ... away from the evil people who kept me there against my will... married me off against my will... i started my nursing course at university.. qualified 2001... life just started to look bright for me and wasim... Wasim wanted to go back to yemen to find his roots/family etc.. but never came home.. he died there and they buried him.. so Katie my life is over babe... without wasim i dont want life... But i still hold on to faith because if it wernt my faith Katie i would of killed myself the day wasim died... But i still get angry... i hurt... i ask why all the time... all the questions and feelings you have Katie i have.... Our son's are in Heaven katie... pain free.... waiting for us... and we will see our son's again Katie.. I was told wasim was posiened... ill never know katie... but wasim was depressed here in the Uk... no one gave him a chance to prove himself... because he stuttered when he spoke... he had low grades at school... he even said to me once "mom you said to me to tell you if something was bothering me & always be honest" then he said how he wanted to kill himself because people were evil and crule to him... he wants to better himself but no one will give him a chance... i comforted him and said.... life without you wasim "i dont want" do you here me wasim... he said yes mom.. we cried , hugged.... and not long after that he went to yemen... he liked it there being a male... but Only God knows what happened to my baby Katie.. im left with the torment.
Katie im so sorry for all this wrting i have wrote... but i just want to give you the message that.. take no notice of people and what they say.... GOD ONLY TAKES THE ONE'E HE LOVES SO EARLY IN LIFE and wasim & Gabriel are two of his loved ones.. and just because we hurt... who cares what people say.. we did not loose our boys because we did not pray right.. Katie Gos never punishs us by taking our children... he takes them because HE LOVES US... HE LOVES THE BEST ONES.. we HURT thats why we ask why this and that its part of a mother hurting ... missing...
Im here for you katie please email me if you need to talk honey... Sending you love & hugs from my heart. Assia mom to wasim a.k.a nancy xxxxx
Happy Valentine's Day / Lisa Arceneaux Tyler's Mom
Happy Valentines Day Gabriel. God Bless you and your loved ones.
I know that Gabriel really loved children... and he was good with them too... he would have made a wonderful father on earth, but I imagine, in Heaven, he's busy helping out with the little ones... like his cousins, William and Andrew, and maybe a sister or brother, (if miscarried babies make it to Heaven)... :-) But its still sad, to ME, that Gabey didn't get to have children on Earth... ANYWAYS... I wished that I, at least, had a picture of Gabriel with a child, but I didn't... UNTIL... Gigi, one of Gabriel's best friends emailed me and told me about a picture, that she had, of Gabriel and her little boy, Oz, and Oz's best buddy, Sam... I got so excited... She said that she would drop it by sometime when she's in town, as she is presently living and going to school in Chicago... WELL... one day I was really feeling blue... I was missing Gabriel extra bad that day... I went out to get the mail, and thought I saw something fall, out of the corner of my eye, but when I looked, there wasn't anything but, what looked like, a piece of paper... I started to pick it up, but thought, "its not mail, just something on the ground, and its windy, so the wind will blow it away," I was feeling too blue to even pick up some trash... Didn't think any more about it... Until, the next day when I decided to rake the yard... In the middle of Winter??? I was raking the yard... oh well... anyways, after I got the leaves to the road, where the city truck will pick them up, I walked over to check the mail... I looked down and saw the piece of paper from the day before... STILL THERE... not blown away by the wind... good grief! O.K. I picked it up... and to my Awesome Surprise... it was the picture that Gigi had told me about... a picture of Gabriel and Oz and Sam... the picture was still there... my sister, Beth, said that Gabriel must have had his foot on it... :-) Gigi had dropped it off in the mailbox, and it probably stuck to some mail and fell when I got the mail on Monday... It had been run over by an automobile and was really scratched up, but thanks to Microsoft Photo Editor, I was able to smudge the tears away... Hallelujah... Here is the picture of Gabey and the Kids... I LOVE this picture...
My Dreams / Katie, Helms (Gabriel's Mom ) My name is Katie Helms… I have two sons… My youngest, Ben, age 23, lives here in Knoxville, while my oldest, Gabriel, lives in Heaven… J Gabriel moved to heaven in August of 2006 at the age of 25… I miss my Gabriel with every beat of my heart, though I believe he is in a better place, no longer tormented by pain and addiction… He and I were very close… I never gave up on him, and he knew it… I always saw a better future for him, free of drugs and the problems they bring… I always was proud of him, for his musical abilities, and his outgoing personality, even in spite of his bad choice to mess with drugs… he played with drugs for a very short time before he became totally addicted… I tried to help him as best I could… he battled hard for several years… he knew that the drugs were ruining his life, and mine, and he fought to stay clean, but finally the drugs won, and he overdosed… Maybe God looked down and said, “o.k. son, you’ve fought long enough, come home and be healed…” dunno…
Anyways, about three months after Gabriel moved to Heaven, I was sleeping, and in my dream a beautiful Heavenly choir was singing a new song… “God gives peace, that passes understanding, not as the world gives, God gives peace…” In my dream, I jumped up and said, “a song, Gabriel wrote me a song, and he brought the choir and they’re singing it… this is Gabriel’s song to me”… I jumped excitedly… in my dream… When I woke up, I could remember the melody and the chorus, but not the verses… so I added some verses and began singing them… I sang them over and over and they really comforted me… and they still comfort me… Gabriel was in incredible musician and songwriter… and I really believe that he wrote me that song…
But that was it… until about nine months later, and my son, Ben, moved to California for a short time… I was devastated… I wanted him to go, because it had been his dream for years… (when he got out of the Army he was going to go to California, and he was going to take Gabriel with him, to get him out of Knoxville and away… a new start… but Gabriel died three weeks before Ben’s Army discharge). I missed Ben so much… and I missed Gabriel so much too… One night I prayed to God, I said, “Lord, please let Gabriel tell me that he loves me, and that when I would get after him about the drugs, that it was just because I was trying to help, because I loved him so much, please let him tell me that he understood and that he loves me”…. Well, nothing happened… to me… but then a day and a half after my prayer, Ben called me from California and said, “Mom you’ve got to hear about my dream.”
Ben said that he dreamed that… he was on the roof of a house, and another house was really close, so he tried jumping to the other roof, but he fell… and he woke up in my house in Knoxville, and Gabe was here… he and Gabriel jumped at each other, hugged, poked, cut up, wrestled… so happy to see each other… Ben said that it was the old Gabe, before the drugs, the fun and silly Gabe… Ben said, “Hey Gabe, you died, what are you doing here at Mom’s house?” Gabe said, “Hey man, remember the roof, You died too… we’re both dead… but this is it, we’re still here, just like in another dimension or something…” Ben said, “what I died too…? oh, no… what about Mom? We’ve got to tell Mom… we’ve got to tell Mom that we love her”… Gabriel replied, “well, there are rules about communicating, you got to follow the rules”… and he started telling Ben about the rules, but Ben can’t remember what they are (now that he’s awake) but he knew there are rules… but they tried to figure out a way to write me a note and tell me that they love me, but then Ben awoke… from the dream….
Whoa… was that dream an answer to my prayer… or what? Now, if I had had the dream and told Ben about it, he would have said, “that’s nice Mom” but probably not totally understood the significance of it, or maybe not even believed me… but Ben having the dream, he was comforted, which comforted me too, and the nature of the dream was definite confirmation of my prayer less than two days before and across the country away… J
Well, now its been fourteen months since Gabriel moved to Heaven… Ben is back in Tennessee… but no more dreams, until the other night… I dreamed I had a baby boy… I was so excited… and nervous… and then Gabriel appeared… he looked at me with love and compassion, like he was happy for me… It was the first dream when Gabriel and I made eye contact… I said, “Gabriel, you’ll help me to take care of my baby boy, won’t you?” Gabriel, so sweetly, and lovingly, said, “yes Mom, I’ll help you take care of your baby boy.” I felt so good… Gabriel looked good… he looked 14 months older… I think he was wearing a black shirt and white tie, maybe even white suspenders, or something white behind him… He looked healthy… and he looked at me with love…
The next morning I was so excited… I called my Aunt Barbara and told her about it and she said, “there has to be a meaning to that… I wonder what it is”… I hadn’t even thought about a meaning… I was just so happy to see my Gabey… Later in the day I began to be worried about Ben… concerned… I just felt like he might be drinking too much or something like that, (he is young and sometimes drinks with the guys) so I called him and told him to be careful…. I told him that alcohol can turn into a “problem” just like drugs can… He said, “I know Mom, I had a wake up call last night and I’m not going to drink as much anymore”…. A wake up call???? Hmn…. Later I thought about it and it hit me… something almost happened to Ben the night before, while I was dreaming and talking to Gabriel… I found out what the “wake up call” was … Ben was riding with someone who got a DUI, and if that weren't bad enough, the cop who arrested Ben's friend made Ben and another guy walk through the projects in Nashville to somewhere they could call for help (his cell phone was broken)… but I believe that Gabriel was there for him… praying for him… helping him… ???? I don’t know… but Gabriel was helping me to take care of my baby boy… Ben.
For Katie and Family... and for Gabriel / Angie 'Dallas' Mom' Gwynn (Friend in spirit ) Oh Katie... he's a beauty! Such a beauty. He had a good strong name.
I have been reading about his life, and there are so many similarities between all of these, our children, who turned the page and found those demons. Once, I had a very close personal relationship with G-d. It feels like he ran out on me. Like life has run out on me. But your words are cherished. They are good. Gabriel had a good foundation, that he could cling to, even in the hard times. And he never left that foundation. Feel assured of that. I thank you, for reaching out to me. For Dallas' sake, and for the sakes of all those children and families who may be suffering. And for letting me read the beautiful stoy of this beautiful soul, your son Gabriel!
Love and Peace, Angie
Write Up in the HARMD.org Website / Katie Helms (MOM) My Beloved Gabriel passed away August 14, 2006, when he was 25 years old… He loved the Lord, and I believe that he is in a better place, no longer tormented by the pains and horrors of addiction, but I still miss him so very much… I will miss him every day until I see him again, someday, in Heaven…
Gabriel was a beautiful person… a talented musician and songwriter, with incredible stage charisma… Gabriel loved people… He cared about people and their problems, and took everything to heart… Gabriel loved to make people laugh, and always found a way to find the passion in people… He was always there to talk… and listen…
Gabriel was a beautiful person, but he battled a horrible addiction… He shot up oxycontin, and he dabbled with just about anything he could find, just to try to tame this demon on his back… He finally tried Methadone… not from a clinic, but from the street… from a, probably, well meaning friend… but he overdosed and died…
Addiction is painful… It hurts when you do the drugs, and you get sick… and it hurts when you need the drugs, and you get sick… It hurts even more, he said, when you deal with the inner turmoil of guilt and shame from the things you do to get the drugs, and you get sick… Addiction is painful…
Gabriel once told me that he didn’t set out to become a drug addict, or to be a bad person… he wanted to be a good person… but he just wanted to enjoy life and “party a little”… Well, he quickly found out that drugs can take hold, and addiction sneaks up real fast… And the “good person inside” just couldn’t win the battle…
Gabriel was a beautiful person, who cared about me, his mom, and his brother, and his family and friends… I KNOW he didn’t set out to hurt us… I KNOW he would want us to move on and enjoy life, as he watches from above… and I KNOW that he would want me to tell everyone I can, that drugs kill… Please don’t start… Please stop NOW, if you can, or get help if you need it… Please help your loved ones…
I love my Gabriel so very much…
Katie Helms, Gabriel’s Mom
Http://gabrielmiller.memory-of.com
Write up in the DrugFree.ORG Website / Katie Helms (MOM) My son, Gabriel, was a beautiful person. He was talented, artistic, loving, and passionate. He was a really good friend to me, and not just a son -- de was a good friend to everyone.
He would sit and talk for hours to a hurting person. He always had good advice for them though he couldn't really get his own advice turned back into himself. He had self-esteem issues, and nothing I could do or say seemed to help much. I guess he just thought that I was looking with eyes of Love and not seeing the truth -- but I DID see the truth. Sure he made some stupid choices -- he tried some things that he should never have even touched. Things that led to a horrible addiction. He followed his passions, rather than his head, but he was a beautiful person.
At his funeral I realized that I wasn't the only one who saw these beautiful traits. Many of his friends told me awesome stories of how Gabriel was there for them, when they needed someone, how he would make them smile, encourage them or even pull the passion out of them by making them mad sometimes -- anything to drag them out of their apathy. A lot of young people heard his music and were inspired. His stage charisma drew life out of people, out into the open. Gabriel saw things differently than we see them. He marched to the beat of a different drummer. One time, after Gabriel had drawn a really cute picture of my Mom and step-dad, my Mom said, "Gabriel sees people the way they WANT to be seen." And that was Gabriel.
Now... the world called Gabriel an addict, but he wasn't. He was a beautiful person, who just happened to be battling a horrible addiction. The name, "Gabriel" means messenger of God and Gabriel has a message for this world: Addicts are not the scum of the earth...they are beautiful people who NEED HELP. They may not admit that they need help, but they do. Gabriel kept telling me that he was going to make it on his own and he almost did, but then the relapse got him. I guess his tolerance was down and he took too much. I wish I had tried harder to get him into rehab.
I miss my Gabriel so much. Every day, every hour. I know Gabriel loved the Lord and I believe in the afterlife, and I totally believe that Gabriel is in a better place, and no longer tormented by addiction. I just wish he had been able to win this battle on this earth, and be with me.
Write up in Mothers Against Medical Abuse Website / Katie Helms (MOM) I lost my son, Gabriel, to a Methadone overdose when he was 25 years old... He was a beautiful, tender, and passionate person who loved God and everybody... He was an artistic musician who loved to entertain... He battled drug addiction for several years... He once told me that he didn't start out being rebellious or anything, he just wanted to "party a little"... Well, he soon found out that "partying" can lead to a horrible addiction... It was Oxycontin that hooked him and ruined his life for several years, and Methadone that killed him.... Addiction is horrible and painful TORMENT... He said that he was in pain when he needed drugs, and in pain when he did the drugs... and he was filled with guilt and shame for the way he treated people when he was on drugs, and for the pain that he caused his brother and I (his Mom)... he was a beautiful person, but tried several different kinds of drugs, trying to keep himself out of pain... Sometimes he would purchase oxycontin from a kid who got it from his grandmother... His grandmother, on Medicare, would go to the doctor and say that she had back trouble, the doctor prescribed Oxycontin... the grandmother would get her prescription filled and take it right over to her grandson to sell... He was living in a half-way house, and selling drugs... Finally, my son, got clean for a while, but then relapsed... then a well meaning friend started giving him Methadone... he thought it would help him to come off of the oxycontin... but it didn't... he went to sleep and never woke up... Now, I do believe that my Gabriel is in a better place... but I still miss him with every beat of my heart... http://gabrielmiller.memory-of.com
Write up in Oxycontin Death's Website / Katie Helms (MOM) My beautiful son, Gabriel Miller, died of an overdose of Methadone, but it was while he was trying to get over a 3 year addiction to Oxycontin... So Oxycontin is the cause of more deaths than even realized... Gabriel was a fun and passionate person, he was a talented musician and entertainer, and he once told me that he didn't set out to be a rebellious drug user, he just wanted to, "party" a little... but he soon found out how quick addiction can come... especially with a highly addictive chemical... and what a heavey toll it has on your life, and the lives of the ones you love the most... Gabriel had, at times, purchased Oxycontin from a young man who was living in a half-way house, and would get the oxycontin from his grandmother who would go to the doctor and tell him that her back hurt, get her pills, and take them right over for her grandson to sell... sick, sick, sick... Gabriel battled but didn't make it on this earth... I know that Gabriel loved God and loved people... he prayed often for help... Finally, one day, our Loving Lord, just said, "o.k. kid, you've battled enough, come on home"... I'm grateful for the afterlife, but I really wish that my Gabriel were still here with me... http://gabrielmiller.memory-of.com
prayers to the family / Tracy Stein (none) I too have suffered the loss of a family member, my brother. I hope you and he are at peace. Please find each other in heaven and know that we are missing you deeply! May the love of the good Lord guide us all through the pain!
love a stranger who suffers from loss
Poem/ David Miller (Dad) As I sit within the boundries of my torn heart and mind... I feel the perpetual north winds, hammering against my dried out, tired face... As an inkling of a thought that has traveled through my mind, a memory to be exact, of my #1 SON and his gifts and how he seemed to bless many a life... My heart bleeds with so much sorrow... so much saddeness My eyes have become wells of water from the grief within... But soon we'll be together.... forever...
david miller
The First Anniversary of when Gabriel Moved to Heaven / Katie Gabriel's Mom (mother) I was having a rough morning yesterday, the first anniversary of when Gabriel moved to Heaven... and then I talked to my Pastor's wife, Becky, and she encouraged me and prayed for me... and it helped... I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers from Aunt Mimi, Aunt Barbara, and Aunt Faith... and that blessed my heart... Then I talked to Joy, and we tried to encourage each other... Bless her heart, she is having a rough time too... She said that he was her soul mate and she misses him so much and is concerned that she will never meet another guy who is as awesome as Gabe was, and her poor husband someday, will not be able to meet up to Gabe's attributes... :-) I told her she will find someone... that God has a wonderful man already picked out for her... just seek the Lord, and hang in there... Later, Ben and Grandma and I, and my friend, Debra, and some of Gabe and Ben's friends met at the cemetery at 4pm, and we released balloons... 25 of them... thats how old Gabey was... We had notes on some of them and his web address, in case anyone finds one... There was Derek, Kenneth, Kevin, Leah, Meagan, Shaun Wagner, Nathan Falkenberry, and Chris Pitocik... There was a green balloon for his Aunt Jayme, who said to write on it, "Lets take it out on the green"... something that Gabe and she had always said to each other... Three red ones for my beautiful red headed Aunts and their families... a Gold one from Me, because a mother's love is golden... a pink one from Granny... orange from the Girards... silver from Grandpa Fred, Grandma Liz, Lara and Sean, and I wrote on it, "Gabriel, we love you... and please kiss Baby Andrew and Baby William for us"... And the rest were purple, Gabe's favorite color, and I don't know what the friends wrote on them... besides the url... One of the balloons got away from one of the guys, before the rest, and it went up REAL slowly, I was afraid it was going to get stuck in the trees... and I swear it had a red dot in it... like someone had it with a laser pointer, but nobody did... it was really weird... Everyone saw it... One of the guys said it was the way the sun was hitting it... but I don't know... I don't know if Debra got a picture of it, or not... but she said that it was probably from Gabe, it went up before the rest and it was unusual... :-) Anyways, then we all went to a Japanese Steak House that Gabe liked... and we ate... Debra's husband joined us there... We had a nice time... they all blessed my heart by being there... Then later in the evening Joy and Chris Bruce went to the cemetery, so I went down there too and talked to them for a little while... So... I'm through with all of the "firsts"... Now I just have the rest of my life to miss him... but I believe he is in a better place... and I will see him again... But like my sister, Beth, said... "well, now we're one year closer to seeing him again." I love you all and I truly appreciate your encouragement and prayers...
Why God allows things like this to happen... / Katie Helms (Gabriel's Mom ) It was 1:30am… I couldn’t sleep… so I was up, thinking and praying… Praying about how I need to make sense out of this… make sense out of Gabriel’s death…
I know God could have healed Gabriel from his addictions… I know God could have made everything right on earth… but He took Gabriel home… I don’t have a problem with that… I trust Him… I am glad that Gabriel is no longer tormented by that horrible addiction… the pain of it and the shame of it… Gabriel is free from that now…
I just constantly hear people say, “if you have sorrows its because you either don’t have faith, or you are hard headed and rebellious and won’t listen to God, or you don’t pray right… I thought to myself, I KNOW I’m not perfect… but I don’t think I’m bad enough to have a son die… God isn’t mean… He’s not up there with weights and scales, saying “oops, you didn’t pray right, you don’t have enough faith, you had fear, you didn’t make positive confessions, your kid is going to die.” I’ve been hearing things like that everywhere lately… but they just don’t sit well in my spirit…
I’ve gotten defensive about it, and I apologize for that… but everywhere I went, that’s what I hear… I KNEW in my heart that there was a reason for Gabriel’s move to Heaven… and I prayed and Prayed for God to help me to make sense out of this… I was under attack…
Now I know about the Sword of the Spirit… Word of God… the two edged sword… One edge is the Word, and the other edge is the Spirit… the Logos and the Rhema… Sometimes just knowing the exact Bible verse, the logos, works against the lies of the devil… and sometimes the rhema, the inner wisdom of what God was saying… the essence of the scripture, works… But sometimes we have a big attack and we need both edges of our Sword… so we can cram that blade into the enemy’s gut and jerk it around…
Well, God showed me the logos… that went with the rhema… that I knew inside of my heart… Hallelujah… I knew in my heart that there was a reason, and it wasn’t my fault… It wasn’t my lack of faith, or lack of perfect prayers, or lack of thankfulness, or my fear… I knew this… that was Rhema in my heart… but now I have the Word to go with it… Thank You Jesus…
Check out Romans 5… verses 1 through 5 in the KJV...
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
So… verse 1… if we’re Justified by Faith… and justified, I’ve heard defined as, Just-As-If-I’d Never Sinned… We have peace with God… through our Lord Jesus Christ… Katie’s Translation is this… Since we believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, and have asked Him to be our Lord, its just-as-if-we’d never sinned, and so we have peace with God the Father… So that’s enough to get us to Heaven…
But there is more… We are still on this earth, with all of its problems… and we’ve got a job to do… a Great Commission… to bring other people to Heaven with us…. To tell other people about God and His Love… But who am I to tell them…? You might say, I’m just a believer…. I’m not even sure about all of this…. I don’t really have any experience to prove it…. Well, give it time…
Verse 2… and by HIM we also have access, by Faith, into this Grace that helps us to stand… and to rejoice in the hope of the glory of God… Now, Faith, the Bible says, is the assurance of things hoped for… and the evidence of things not seen… Grace, is the power that God gives us to “get through”… Philippians 4:13, I can do all things through Christ who gives me the strength and the power… that’s grace… So, HIS Grace, helps us to STAND… in the midst of what?
Well, go on to Verse 3… And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also… OH, that’s what we have to Stand through… We glory in Tribulations… Now, that’s NOT like, “Oh, Glory, my life’s so tough, and so bad… I fell over into some chigger weed and I’ve got chigger bites all over my…” That’s not the kind of glory in tribulations that the Bible is talking about… Its more like Victory in Tribulations… and it doesn’t say Victory OVER tribulations… but IN them… When we have trials, suffering, sorrow, tribulations, we can either act or react… we can either get angry, or get better… If we do right… then that’s how we Glory in Tribulations…
But why should we even have Tribulations? We’re God’s children… why should we ever have a tough time…? Well, go on in the verses…. Because we KNOW that Tribulation worketh Patience… You mean, like being patient in line at the grocery store? No, more than that… like the patience of Job… like being patient when you hear people telling you why you’re going through something… And boy can they have some critical reasons…”you didn’t pray right” “God is trying to teach you something” “you’ve been BAD”… and without the patience, we would get mad and defensive and maybe clobber somebody… While being truly Patient, we’re not mad at God about it… I said it millions of times to pre-schoolers, “Patience means to Wait Nicely”… Patient… Waiting on God… Knowing that God is in control and will work it for the good… like it says in Romans 8:28… And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
O.k…. so we’ve got tribulation and we’re patient… what does that do? Well, it allows us to be moldable, by God, and to get EXPERIENCE… not the experience, like “wow, that was some experience!!!”… but experience like, “Help Wanted… Experienced Only Apply” That kind of “experience” is those who’ve done something and come out successful at it… Think about that… Experienced… you’ve done it successfully…
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Now you’ve got “Past Victories” to Rehearse… like David did when he was about to fight Goliath… he reminisced about defeating the bear, and the lion… he rehearsed his past victories… without which he probably would not have been so bold… But, Only with experience, can we have true hope… And that’s what experience produces… Hope…
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. Verse 5…
So, with this tribulation, and the patience and experience that it produces… we can have Hope that can be used in our own future battles… and to encourage and minister to others who are, and will, be fighting battles of their own… thus, helping more people to see the Love of God… the power of His resurrection… the strength of His character… in care for His people… And take more people to Heaven with us…. And that’s what HE wants… for it is not His will that ANY should perish… That’s the great commission…
Our son's are in heaven watching over us. / Nancy Garvin (My son died from Methadone too ) Katie, I am so sorry for your loss, Gabriel was very blessed to have his faith and a loving mother such as you. There is no greater pain then to lose a child. I live with that pain everyday since June 11, 2006 when my 24 yr old son, Robby died from methadone. God bless you and your family and my thoughts and prayers are with you. Love & hugs, Nancy (MAMA.ORG)
Love is evident here / Lara Lahey (Aunt) My dear sister, What a beautiful and powerful tribute to Gabriel and testimony of TRUTH!!!! Gabriel is still playing his music... and teaching some new kids on the block how to jam... I can see it now.. Little William and Andrew looking up at their big cousin with the adoring look and jamming with him the best they can!!! I love you Katie, Lara
This was on a friend of Gabe's myspace page on August 19, 2006... Bless her heart... / Katie Helms (Mom) Saturday, August 19, 2006
A new beginning VS a new end Current mood: depressed
so today i realized something. when something truly bad happens you want to be no place else but home. I haven't really been homesick since i've moved but today i found out a friend of mine, Gabriel John Miller, overdosed this past monday. I hurt for so many reasons i can't explain...i wish he was still here, i wish i could've helped, i wish i could've done something...i've cried so much i don't know if there are any tears left. i hurt for his close friends, i hurt for his family, most of all i hurt for him, that it had to come to this..i've been alone most of the day and i don't feel like being social...a city only feels lonely to me when i am sad. i gotta get out of this room before i go crazy. pray for Gabe's family, please.
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