Last year I was so distraught of my sister's condition, bone cancer, throat cancer and dying, that I wrote this limerick just to add some levity to my life.
My heart's a churnin' Hormones emergin' My fire's burnin' My body's yearnin'
Manhood emergin' logic now surgin' Ignore his urgin' Cause I'm a virgin
well it was supposed to be funny Tiffanie, I have a few teacher friends that are actually using this limerick in their sex ed class for education mixed with a bit of humour.
Even though you are in the midst of pain and suffering, it's always good to have a bit of levity. It eases the tension of being so sad, especially about your sister dying.
After my mom's funeral, we came back to the house after the funeral and jumped on the trampoline. It was a necessary release of tension.
yes, sometimes we need to just turn away and vent... and personally, I think humor is extremely therapeutic. Your poem is hilarious and should be submitted to a rapper, it's got a great beat.
Hey - are you posting this as a writing prompt to get people to post their own limericks? Just wondering, b/c you posted to my prompts and exercises group. :P
Very funny Carol. It is so sad that we have to see so much death and suffering in the world. I wished that Christ would come sooner and do away will all pain,death, and suffering in His new kingdom and earth where the Lion will lay down with the Lamb.
When someone tells me about how someone in their family is suffering, especially a close one, I like to say this: that Jesus will always bring us Joy even in times of great suffering, so if you don't know him and would like, to let me know if not it's ok you will come around when it's the Lord's time.
I pray for you and your sister that God would miraculously heal your sister and that he would bring you both into his family if you are not already saved. I leave you with this, go on with you life the way you have it now and live in death, or you can throw down you life and give it to Jesus and let him take control and change your life forever.
I can't promise you a life of no pain,death, and suffering, but i can promise that He will always be there for us when we cry out to him and that he won't allow us to bear something that is more than we are able to. Scripture says God is faithful and true to those that love him and obey his commandments, and He will not allow us to bear a burden that we are not able to bear but will always provide a way of escape.
I pray, that this way of escape for you and your sister would be to fall on your face and cry out to Jesus that you need him and that you want him to be your Lord and Savior, only then can you experience the peace and tranquility that all believers experience each and every day when we are submitted to Him.
I would also like to add I do not believe in a eternal hell of pain death and torchure that most Christians sadly believe today, because they refuse to give up the traditions and beliefs of the past and to embrance scripture alone and not anything that is extrabiblical that is not of scripture.
I only believe this that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes on him shall not perish but have eternal life. I believe in a Heaven not a Hell.
I also say to those who believe in a hell how you can possibly believe that a Loving God would allow people to suffer in such a horiendous way. In the Scripture God says I do not wish for any to suffer but that all may come to know me and I do not delight in the punishment of the wicked.
For those of you who think that scripture says that they will be torchured day and night is totally misreading the passage, i believe. It says that there will be a weeping and nashing of teath. I ask you what do people do when they are upset they aren't getting something? They weep in self pity cause they can't have it and they nash their teeth at the one who won't give it to them.
This isn't torchure of any sort its just the response people give to God when he gives them what they wanted eternal seperation from the father in which they are erased, because apart from God we cease to exist. This is why God sent us out of the garden of Eden to prevent us from partaking of the tree of life and so live forever in sin, pain,death, and suffering.
Because he truly is a Loving God, I only added this because i wanted to clarify what I believe and what God truly is, because I would hate for you to come to know a God who most Christiains today believe who delights in the torchure of unbelievers which basicaly is Satanic in my opinion.
This is the God of those hell fire preachers who just rant "Your going to hell" they fear the one on one conversation that is desperately needed and instead just yell out to the air because they are terrified to talk to you. By God's Grace im not one of these, because I share Jesus without fear. If he wishes me to go to a part of the world where to preach the gospel meant death, so be it. I love those people enough to give my life for Him if necessary. I hope that this will both encourage and bring peace to you and that it will enlighten you to the wonderful gift Christ has set before us all.
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Comments: 32
The limerick is grate. The cancer part hurts. I lost my mother to cancer in November.
Before that my father and many more. That gave you a bit of relief in the mist of a
Storm. That took strength. You are a Strong Woman .
After my mom's funeral, we came back to the house after the funeral and jumped on the trampoline. It was a necessary release of tension.
When someone tells me about how someone in their family is suffering, especially a close one, I like to say this: that Jesus will always bring us Joy even in times of great suffering, so if you don't know him and would like, to let me know if not it's ok you will come around when it's the Lord's time.
I pray for you and your sister that God would miraculously heal your sister and that he would bring you both into his family if you are not already saved. I leave you with this, go on with you life the way you have it now and live in death, or you can throw down you life and give it to Jesus and let him take control and change your life forever.
I can't promise you a life of no pain,death, and suffering, but i can promise that He will always be there for us when we cry out to him and that he won't allow us to bear something that is more than we are able to. Scripture says God is faithful and true to those that love him and obey his commandments, and He will not allow us to bear a burden that we are not able to bear but will always provide a way of escape.
I pray, that this way of escape for you and your sister would be to fall on your face and cry out to Jesus that you need him and that you want him to be your Lord and Savior, only then can you experience the peace and tranquility that all believers experience each and every day when we are submitted to Him.
I would also like to add I do not believe in a eternal hell of pain death and torchure that most Christians sadly believe today, because they refuse to give up the traditions and beliefs of the past and to embrance scripture alone and not anything that is extrabiblical that is not of scripture.
I only believe this that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes on him shall not perish but have eternal life. I believe in a Heaven not a Hell.
I also say to those who believe in a hell how you can possibly believe that a Loving God would allow people to suffer in such a horiendous way. In the Scripture God says I do not wish for any to suffer but that all may come to know me and I do not delight in the punishment of the wicked.
For those of you who think that scripture says that they will be torchured day and night is totally misreading the passage, i believe. It says that there will be a weeping and nashing of teath. I ask you what do people do when they are upset they aren't getting something? They weep in self pity cause they can't have it and they nash their teeth at the one who won't give it to them.
This isn't torchure of any sort its just the response people give to God when he gives them what they wanted eternal seperation from the father in which they are erased, because apart from God we cease to exist. This is why God sent us out of the garden of Eden to prevent us from partaking of the tree of life and so live forever in sin, pain,death, and suffering.
Because he truly is a Loving God, I only added this because i wanted to clarify what I believe and what God truly is, because I would hate for you to come to know a God who most Christiains today believe who delights in the torchure of unbelievers which basicaly is Satanic in my opinion.
This is the God of those hell fire preachers who just rant "Your going to hell" they fear the one on one conversation that is desperately needed and instead just yell out to the air because they are terrified to talk to you. By God's Grace im not one of these, because I share Jesus without fear. If he wishes me to go to a part of the world where to preach the gospel meant death, so be it. I love those people enough to give my life for Him if necessary. I hope that this will both encourage and bring peace to you and that it will enlighten you to the wonderful gift Christ has set before us all.
There's some good out-of-the ordinary rhyming in this.