Saturday, November 28, 2009
Angels From the Realms of Glory...
"PLEASE don't be changing key!" :P
(my thoughts at the interlude :D)
Friday, November 27, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
just one of my amazing cousins <3
My lovely cousin from Edmonton :) ....last Tim Horton's together till Christmas..
(Cheryl my younger sister, myself, Charlotte)
(Cheryl my younger sister, myself, Charlotte)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
some goings on around the Kroesbergen households...<3
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brings back memories of our rubber boots days on the farm! :)
We are really and truly very serious sometimes ;)
My very pregnant and beautiful mother <3...one month to go!
Charity always seems to give the most smiles to Grandpa or Uncle Wes...Grandpa absolutely adores her :)
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
It is finished.
His body is lying beside his wife's.
In the ground, covered with dirt.
He's not there.
On this earth,
His body is no longer a temple of the Holy Spirit..
Opa's heaven, he's with his Lord.
His soul is with Jesus.
It's hard to let him go,
but I'm gonna see him again..
and that makes me smile.
In the ground, covered with dirt.
He's not there.
On this earth,
His body is no longer a temple of the Holy Spirit..
Opa's heaven, he's with his Lord.
His soul is with Jesus.
It's hard to let him go,
but I'm gonna see him again..
and that makes me smile.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Funeral details for Opa
Funeral Arrangements:
Visitation is Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 at the..
McCleister Funeral Home
495 Park Road North Brantford, ON
N3R 7K8
...and the funeral will be held Lord willing on Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. at the Hamilton Free Reformed Church.
Internment to follow at Mt. Zion Cemetary.
Thank again for all your thoughts and prayers! They mean so much and it's such a comfort to be surrounded by so many brothers and sisters in Christ!
Visitation is Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 at the..
McCleister Funeral Home
495 Park Road North Brantford, ON
N3R 7K8
...and the funeral will be held Lord willing on Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. at the Hamilton Free Reformed Church.
Internment to follow at Mt. Zion Cemetary.
Thank again for all your thoughts and prayers! They mean so much and it's such a comfort to be surrounded by so many brothers and sisters in Christ!
Life is but a breath...
November 13, 2009.
Klaas Pikkert
He's gone.
His life was full, and everything that he did, everything that he taught, he did because he loved his Lord with all his heart.
He touched so many hearts, he made an impact on so many minds and so many lives.
He was always such a special man, someone I always looked up to, someone who I will never forget for the wonderful, loving Opa that he was to me.
There's no more disease in his body, his body is perfect!
He has no more frustrations about not being able to communicate. He's singing in the presence of Jesus!
Those eyes which lost their sparkle...they're sparkling again!
He's not by himself, he's in the same place as Oma and they're praising God together in heaven!
Dad read this chapter last night by his bedside when we were all there to say our last goodbyes. It was one of Opa and Oma's favorite psalms and I just want to share five verses that are so fitting for this day in our lives...
Psalm 103:14-18
"For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; to such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them."
I'm going to miss him so much, but this is the best thing that could have happened to him and it's time to let him go, to be with his Heavenly Father.
I love you Opa.
Klaas Pikkert
He's gone.
His life was full, and everything that he did, everything that he taught, he did because he loved his Lord with all his heart.
He touched so many hearts, he made an impact on so many minds and so many lives.
He was always such a special man, someone I always looked up to, someone who I will never forget for the wonderful, loving Opa that he was to me.
There's no more disease in his body, his body is perfect!
He has no more frustrations about not being able to communicate. He's singing in the presence of Jesus!
Those eyes which lost their sparkle...they're sparkling again!
He's not by himself, he's in the same place as Oma and they're praising God together in heaven!
Dad read this chapter last night by his bedside when we were all there to say our last goodbyes. It was one of Opa and Oma's favorite psalms and I just want to share five verses that are so fitting for this day in our lives...
Psalm 103:14-18
"For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; to such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them."
I'm going to miss him so much, but this is the best thing that could have happened to him and it's time to let him go, to be with his Heavenly Father.
I love you Opa.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Some verses I came across in my devotions this morning ..
1 John 4: 7 - 16
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but tat He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love on another. No one has seen God at any tim. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in Him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in Him."
and...
Chapter 5: 14-15
" Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him."
I love these verses :)
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but tat He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love on another. No one has seen God at any tim. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in Him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in Him."
and...
Chapter 5: 14-15
" Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him."
I love these verses :)
Thoughts..
God works in mysterious ways.
Some days I just feel like packing it all in and trying something different. Other days, I love my life and I love what I do, still other days I have a hard time trying to stay focused because I'm tired, or stressed.
To be honest, my life right now is crazy. I sometimes feel as if I have no extra down time to do anything to just...relax. And then I think, "well maybe that's being selfish." Because I mean, our lives aren't even our own to begin with, so what right do we have to live them around our own plans and preferences right? I don't know..it's something I really struggle with. How much time are we allowed to take for ourselves to just quiet down from our crazy, hectic schedules and use that time to spend more in His Word, or even just to enjoy the gifts of creation that He's created for us?
I'm really trying to figure out where that fine line is.
And then there's the moments in our lives, those days where everything seems to be going just the way we think it should go. We're happy, and there's really nothing that we feel should be different about it. And then it changes. Everything. You feel as if everything's turned upside down and you don't know what to believe anymore...time passes and then something changes. Again. Except this time, it's amazing. What you thought before would never happen, it does!...in the most incredible and miraculous way!
Those are the times, the days when you just stop. You can't help but lift your voice to Him. When everything seemed all wrong, when you couldn't seem to figure out why..it all makes sense. Sometimes I don't even have words for it. I don't know how to thank Him how He ought to be thanked. But I do with all of my heart, because I love Him, and I love Him for all the mysterious ways He works in my life. I love Him for lifting me up in His hands when I most feel like falling. When He speaks through His Word during the times I least feel like trusting.
I guess it's like when you're closed in all around you..the only place to turn, the only place to look , is up. Where He's there. He's never left, and He never will! ..Honestly, what could be more comforting than to have Christ, the Lord, our King surround you with His loving arms, and ever-present Spirit?
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-15
"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which has been planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew, a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate, a time to war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set to the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh form the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put into it, nor anything taken from it: and God doeth it it, that men should fear before Him. That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past."
Some days I just feel like packing it all in and trying something different. Other days, I love my life and I love what I do, still other days I have a hard time trying to stay focused because I'm tired, or stressed.
To be honest, my life right now is crazy. I sometimes feel as if I have no extra down time to do anything to just...relax. And then I think, "well maybe that's being selfish." Because I mean, our lives aren't even our own to begin with, so what right do we have to live them around our own plans and preferences right? I don't know..it's something I really struggle with. How much time are we allowed to take for ourselves to just quiet down from our crazy, hectic schedules and use that time to spend more in His Word, or even just to enjoy the gifts of creation that He's created for us?
I'm really trying to figure out where that fine line is.
And then there's the moments in our lives, those days where everything seems to be going just the way we think it should go. We're happy, and there's really nothing that we feel should be different about it. And then it changes. Everything. You feel as if everything's turned upside down and you don't know what to believe anymore...time passes and then something changes. Again. Except this time, it's amazing. What you thought before would never happen, it does!...in the most incredible and miraculous way!
Those are the times, the days when you just stop. You can't help but lift your voice to Him. When everything seemed all wrong, when you couldn't seem to figure out why..it all makes sense. Sometimes I don't even have words for it. I don't know how to thank Him how He ought to be thanked. But I do with all of my heart, because I love Him, and I love Him for all the mysterious ways He works in my life. I love Him for lifting me up in His hands when I most feel like falling. When He speaks through His Word during the times I least feel like trusting.
I guess it's like when you're closed in all around you..the only place to turn, the only place to look , is up. Where He's there. He's never left, and He never will! ..Honestly, what could be more comforting than to have Christ, the Lord, our King surround you with His loving arms, and ever-present Spirit?
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-15
"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which has been planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew, a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate, a time to war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set to the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh form the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put into it, nor anything taken from it: and God doeth it it, that men should fear before Him. That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past."
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