Heaven Is Kissing Earth
Today I received incredibly sad news… my little sister is dying.
They've done some tests and found cancer through out her body. Due to the fact that she's already incredibly frail from previous treatment, there's nothing they can do. She is at home and will live out the rest of her life with her family and friends. I've talked to her and to Chris, and they are both having a hard time on the one hand, but have a deep peace on the other. I too have a peace that is filing my broken heart. In fact, I feel as if God has been readying me for this day for a couple weeks. He's given me a heart of intercession, and in that place has quited my spirit and given me ears to hear him. I have to say, He is very real to me right now, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.
Jayda and I are close… I love her deeply, and I know she loves me. I will pray for her healing until it no longer makes sense. That said, I feel a real permission from God spend this season saying goodbye. My prayers for Jayda, Chris, and Ezekiel is that they will have an incredibly rich time together as a family over the next number of weeks and months. My heart is filled with prayers for them that can't yet find words (I need to grab a guitar.)
I Thank you all for your prayers, and pray that God will lead me as I live this very unfamiliar season of life. I pray for a blessing over relationship, and for a deep intimacy with the Father. Most of all I pray that God would hold Jayda close tonight (and the rest of her family, myself included.) Ang wrote a comment on my previous entry in which she mentioned that God had shown her "Heaven was kissing Earth", and that really resonated with my spirit. I pray that reality would be obvious to us more and more each day.
May 20th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Chad, no words for you, just shared grief and many prayers with you and Janna and the rest of your family in this time.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
I listened to your song today…and I was moved not only by the reason you have to write it, to express it, but by the sheer rawness of your worship in it. It is not a 'song' but the cry of your heart. I felt that even the little electronic effects were like the noise of your innerworkings…the blipping & whirring of your thoughts & feelings as your deepest longing to trust God and cast your pain & brokenness on him rings out with gutteral honesty and hope… Sending my love and prayers to all of you Blocks and praying for continued peace…and unabashed heart cries…. Andrea xo
May 21st, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Dearest Chad & Jana, Uncle Ken and I have no words to express how we feel at this time. Please know that you are all in our hearts and prayers at this time. I to am praying for healing for Jayda as I know that only God can do this. We love you all and ask that you give Jayda, Chris, Stan & Lori a big hug from us. Anything at all that we can do please let us know we are a phone call away. AUnti Val & Uncle Ken
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:53 pm
my prayers are deep like breaths- my words are few….i must believe that Father is holding you all and kissing your heads…please know that intercession for you all will be so sweet…and broken. hug janna for me too. love you all so.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Uttering prayers in the night for you and the family, no easy way to endure this cross. I'm reminded of our times of worship together singing Rik Leafs song with the lyrics, " When the tears fall down my face, like intercession". It's become so real. Love you both.
May 30th, 2007 at 9:17 am
My heart is so breaking for you all, I love you so very much. God has laid on my heart the story of David and how he cried out and prayed and fasted believing God for healing for his son and I believe we are to do the same. We are praying for you all and especially for Jayda that God would move in His Mighty Power and that we know that healing is for today. Father right now I thank you that healing is Jayda's portion and that by the stripes of Almighty Jesus she is whole!!! Spirit, soul and body. We speak to the cancer in the name of Jesus to be gone and that LIFE and HEALING would flow throught Jayda and that her healing would be complete in Jesus precious Name. AMEN AMEN AMEN We love you. Psalms 118:17
June 1st, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Dearest Chad, There are no words to describe the heartache we feel for you and your family. Please know that we love you and carry your pain with you. No matter what happens, we will all see one another again, here or when we are with our Lord. Lots of love…..Irene
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:01 am
Dear Chad, do you remember when I babysat you and Jayda?? It was when you lived down in Tete Jaune. You two had never had baked apples with butter, brown sugar, and spices. So we made them together and it was pretty fun. You two were the best behaved kids I ever looked after. I insisted on your pa marrying Dan and I because he was the only one that knew when I was younger. Your family in an awesome family. The Lord rejoices in the death of His saints and I can imagine that heaven broke into quite a welcome home for Jayda. She now stands before the Lord in utter perfection, clothed in robes of righteousness, shining like a newborn dewdrop. I do not know how your feeling right now, I honestly am not going to try to know. I now work as a nurse and death is not new to me but it is overwhelming to those who experience it personally. I love your family and we will be rejoined to those that have gone on before us. We are left to lean on the everlasting arms , and might I add mighty arms, of the Lord God who reigns over all things, including grief. May the Lord bless you through this time. Send your love to your mum and pa for me. Love Kathy and family