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Laura Margaret Walker

West Point, 2003

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Bonnie Lee Bryant, Ph.D. on September 22, 2005:

I did not know your daughter, but read her obituary in the Washington Post, and was moved to send the following to you, which the Lord gave to me a short time ago, for me to give to my cousin who had lost her son, a wonderful Christian and a cadet at the Naval Academy, to a drunk driver. I hope it brings all who loved Laura hope and peace.

MISSING YOU (c)Bonnie Lee Bryant

If missing you could make a way,
Then I'd be with you still today.
If tears could bridge this empty space,
Then surely I would see your face.
If memory could call your name
And bring you here, we'd be the same
As every single other day
Before cruel death took you away.
But all these "ifs" fade like the dew;
They cannot bring me there to you,
Or you to me - oh, heart's desire!
How can I bear love's funeral pyre?
Yet in the silence I can hear
The Spirit's voice upon my ear:
"Trust in the One who long ago
Loved even more than this, you know,
And sent His Son to be the stair
That some bright day will take you there.
Look at the cross, God's perfect thought,
Where life from death by love was bought.
In Christ, who loves you, you will know
The sweetest end of this life's woe."
And so, dear heart, our joy must wait
Until we meet at heaven's gate,
Where once again I'll see your face
When I have finished this life's race.
No more apart, we will be one-
One mind, one love, one in the Son.
All sorrows gone, all longings ceased,
Our hearts will find themselves released
From grief and suffering, tears and pain,
No more to break, no more to strain
Against this barrier of death
Where only one on earth has breath.
Together there forever more
With He who opened heaven's door,
Our faith at last will become sight
And present darkness become light.
'Til then I'll trust in life made new,
And I'll be waiting, missing you.

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