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| JOSHNA SANGEETHA JOHNSON |
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"The whole world might join you in a laugh but no one will be there when you cry, you have to cry alone."
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness- Isaiah 57: 1&2.
This was the message left by our daughter Leena Chris. She marked those verses in red ink in her Tamil Bible. Did she know that she will die as a child?
We lost our only daughter Leena Chris aged 9 years on 10th May 2003. She accidentally fell into a sump in her grandmother's house. She was there since May 5th and we had planned to take her back home on 10th evening when the tragedy struck our family. The accident happened around 3.30 pm. We fully understood the plight of others who lost their children in accidents. But life has to carry on... There was a feeling of emptiness in our family. And that was the toughest time in our life for my wife and myself, to live without our precious little daughter.
I would pick her toys, her dress , her photos and keep them close to my heart and cry! I would wake up in the middle of the night and cry aloud. My wife is a prayer woman who felt the untimely death of our child as the will of the God; and she prayed in tears everyday. She would console me daily mentioning how Job lost his ten children (as told in the Bible) and got back everything in double fold! Hope of my wife getting pregnant began to die as a leading gynaecologist told my wife after examining her through various test reports that she could never conceive under normal circumstances!
Nothing is impossible for God. He heard our prayers and my wife conceived again -after 10 years.
In all the scans we took doctors told that the baby would be a boy. We were totally disappointed as we felt that a boy could not fill the place of our daughter. And we also kept Leena's clothes hoping that it would be a girl. My wife gave birth to a baby girl on July 1,2004.What a great miracle and what a great God we have in Jesus!This is another miracle! She looks like my first daughter Leena Chris. Now,we tell everyone what the good Lord has done to our family.
This real incident I hope would give peace and new hope to many of you who have lost their precious ones. Also, I can quote other cases like N.L.Hariharan, founder-president of Cross Blood Foundation, Chennai (www.crossbloodfoundation.com) who lost his five year old son to blood cancer and K.Parameswaran of ONGC, Nagapattinam who lost all of his three children in Tsunami (details in www.nambikkai.org.in) They too have been comforted by JESUS! There are hundreds of promises in the Bible for us to claim in prayers and to get them.
"Prayer brings victory"and it's true that God answers early morning prayers.
You may be a person of different religion or an atheist, but a prayer with an open heart seeking the help of Jesus will surely be answered. No one except Jesus can give you the "peace" to overcome any kind of grief. Now ours is a happy family. God Bless You!
