Finding Security While Grieving by Lisa Mick

⁵ Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. ⁶ The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. ⁷ I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. ⁸ I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, ¹⁰ because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay. ¹¹ You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. (Psalm 16:5-11) 

I don’t know about you but this Psalm is special to me.  When you start reading verse 5, you realize the Lord is the only thing with you that can make you secure.  HE never leaves you or forsakes you.  HE knows what is best for you even when you don’t understand it. 

Some of you know that I lost my precious Bichon Frise, Frazier, who was with me for 14 ½ years.  He was my baby and I loved him so very much.  He followed me around the house and was with me most of the time.  He was a constant in my life.  Now he is gone.  I was out of town when he passed and it was extremely difficult for me to continue the ministry work.  But, even in the midst of my pain, I knew God was with me because he still gave me a heart for others.  I am a lover of God’s people.  When I see women, talk and hug with them, Jesus takes over.  He becomes very present in my entire soul.  I love that! If I can find good in losing my Frazier it is in the fact that I know the Holy Spirit lives in me and will take care of me no matter what happens all the days of my life. 

I want to conclude with more scripture because at this time the truth is what is helping me to survive. 

1 John 3:18-24:

¹⁸ Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.¹⁹ This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: ²⁰ If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. ²¹ Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God ²² and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. ²³ And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. ²⁴ The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

I am very thankful for the time I had with Frazier and I do believe I will see him again but I am more thankful for the Spirit living in me and helping me to love and serve others even when my heart feels like it is breaking in two.  Thank you Jesus for my life and for being my Father here on earth when things are happy and when things are sad.

I love you Frazier and will see you soon, my baby.  God has got you in His hands and is loving you now.  Until that day my love……