(702) Poemhunters A Family Needs Your Prayers Poem by Melvina Germain
(702) Poemhunters A Family Needs Your Prayers
Father today I come to you with a heavy heart, a heart that is saddened and crying out for your help. Father this week a family is in great pain, for they have lost a loved one in such a brutal way. A hard working woman of 40 years old, walking home from work, minding her own business, but she didn’t make it Lord. No my Father, she didn’t make it, she was followed, beaten, raped and murdered. A mother of 5 sons, working hard to save money to send to the Philipines for her sons and husband to come to Canada to live a better life. Oh Father, now she ‘s not here any longer, taken by a ruthless, heartless killer.
I’m told Father that I should pray for this killer, forgive me my King, this I can not do. Maybe another time perhaps, another day when I can think clearly. Today I focus my prayers on the deceased woman and her precious family.
The pain will be heavy and hard to deal with but with your help Father anything is possible. Please Lord put the blood of Jesus over them and give them the strength they need to move forward. Father over these next few days and weeks, their eyes will fill with tears, their minds filled with questions asking why did this happen. Only you can pull them through Lord, only you have the answers, only you can soothe them and give them your heavenly love.
Father the perpetrator beat this poor lady so bad, that the family couldn’t indentify her so it would definitely appear that she suffered tremendously. Father I want to believe that you took her to be with you long before the brutal blows were landed, that she was already sitting by your side.
Yes Father, I’m troubled and having a very difficult time trying to understand this. Why Lord, please talk to me so that I can understand why a young fellow like this, at the age of 21 could be so evil. Lord I pray that you accept Arcelie into your kingdom, so that she will walk with you and enjoy the freedom of everlasting life. I know that she is in your hands now Lord and that you will take good care of her.
Father God I ask that you give the family strength to carry on with their lives and I thank you Father for those that came forward and offered help in a financial way. I ask Lord that you impress on the minds of those than can afford to give in a generous way, that this situation could happen to anyone, no one is an exception. Father please help the family to keep all the little children under one roof, I pray that they never be separated.
Lord for the family members that had to view the body and see the after effects of the brutaliy, oh Lord please help them to overcome Lord. Help them to take that picture out of their minds and remember how beautiful Arcelie was.
Father, wrap your arms around this family, hold them close, don’t let their minds wonder, keep them focused on what they have to do and Lord please keep them out-of-harms way.
Written: Jan 27/2008
Note:
It is crucial that you realize every word of this is true. In fact it happened a little over a week ago, here in Calgary, Alberta. Poemhunters please pray for Arcelie and her family, prayers are powerful and right now Arcelie’s family needs your prayers.
Melvina, I am so thankful you wrote of this horrific and tragic crime in the form of a prayer while also including Arcelies story...She truly was a beautiful sweet hard working young lady who didn't deserve this at all... I too can not get her sweet face out of my mind and her familys pain was hard to witness on the tv...they are hurting so bad and I am praying for this family and will continue keeping them in my thoughts and prayers. Thank you so much Melvina for sharing this painful event, Just as you wrote I too am having a hard time opening up my heart to the 21 yr old animal who did this crime...Thank God it is not up to me as to what would happen to him now.Maybe somehow we will all find out how he became so evil and sadistic...no mstter the how it will not bring this special Lady back or take away the pain from her family. I am thankful though that it made you stop walking from that train station by yourself...too bad it took an event like this to make people think twice. God Bless you Melvina for Always having such a Big heart for Caring for others.U R the Bomb! Now take care of You and get stronger so you can create more paintings. Love, Shelley
I am saddened to hear such news and i can't help but let my heart condem those who have this brutal crime against a sister. If I am not mistaken, she is a filipino from the Philipines not Phillopines. My fist is burning as I can just imagine how they turtured a fellow filipino, a fellow citizen of the world who dreams nothing but to give a better life to her families. But i can't do anything if not to pray for the victim for the forgiveness of her sins and the forgiveness of the sins of those who have done it that they may realize they need to reform to save their own soul when their time to rest will come. thanks for your concern and your poetical crusade calling for justice for the family and for any victims of any criminality against humanity. best wishes, melvin
Thanks for your prayers Melvina and for the overwhelming support of so many Calgarians for this poor woman's family. The killer is an evil in action, an ultimate form of human evil...viciously attacking and he had done it before. He will destroy goodness and will destroy the light and spirits of many more if he is not lock up forever or even should be put to death. My heart goes out for her children...I am hoping and praying that they can still cope up with living and move on with their lives in the years to come.
The evil these so called men do, my heart and prayers go along with you, so sad and tradgic waste of an innocent life, but i pray the family can get over this and have a full and happy life, they will have justice here and in the after life...
Melvina, i never realized that Arcelie is from the Philippines! We have not heard news from here, or i was not able to learn about this.Yes, Melvina, prayers are on the way.and thank you for informing me.
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Mel, you certainly have my prayers for her family. As you say how could you pray for the killer. Half the time they show no remorse for the crimes they have done. They hurt so many with their crimes, then walk away and think nothing more of it. There no remorse there, one often wonders if there perpetrators have even got a conscious. Unfortunately this sort of crime is not an isolated incident, it happens all the time to the innocent all over the world. Thank you for sharing this with us my friend. (10) David