In Loving Memory

  Adriaantje Timmermans - Harteveld

May 18, 1930 - January 5, 2010

Veilig in Jezus Armen !

Safe in Jesus Arms !
     This webpage I made in
loving memory of my dear
mamma.

She was taken from us so sudden and tragically
in a car accident.

Adriaantje Timmermans - Harteveld

Mom Reading - June 11, 2008

 

On my last trip home to see Mom - November 2009

The last family picture with mom & dad. November 7, 2009

Rena, Trudy, (brother requested privace), Emmy

and Lorena on Oma's lap.

June 20 2009 - Mom & Dad's last trip to Calgary

They came especially to celebrate Lodewyk's 40th

and Rena's 42nd Birthday with us.

Mom & Dad took us out eating for our Birthdays

June 20, 2009

 

October 2008 - Lorena with Oma

On our trip to Ontario for Dad's 80th Birthday

and mom & dads 53rd Anniversary.

 

June 6, 2008 - When Oma got to meet and hold

Lorena (her youngest grandchild) for the 1st time.

 

June 13, 2008 - Opa & Oma (holding Lorena)

visiting us in Calgary, Alberta.

 

June 14, 2008

Oma with Lorena, Janita, Opa and Jeremy

 

Welcome Opa & Oma - September 19, 2006

Opa, Jeremy, Janita & Oma

 

Mom & Dad visiting us in Calgary - September 2006

 

September 26, 2006

Taking mom & dad out for a day to the mountains.

 

Mom & dad always enjoyed the day trips

we took to the mountains with them.

 

September 30, 2006

An other day trip to the mountains.

Oma & Opa with Janita & Jeremy

 

Mom & dad took us out eating for our

14th Wedding Anniversary.

Lodewyk & Rena and Mom & Dad - Sept. 30, 2006

Some of the Articles printed in News papers and the internet:

CRASH SENDS TWO TO HOSPITAL

Two people were rushed to hospital Tuesday night after their vehicle flipped off Norwich Road and was submerged for a short time.

While few details were available, Brant OPP reported that a seriously injured woman was taken to Brantford General Hospital.

A man was taken to Woodstock General Hospital with nonlife threatening injuries.

The accident occurred on Norwich Road, near Oxford Line.

Police said road conditions were slippery.

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Woman dies in collision

A 79-year-old Norwich woman has died following an accident on Norwich Road near the West Quarter Townline Road Tuesday evening last week.

Adriaantje Timmermans died at Brantford General Hospital as a result of injuries suffered in the accident.

Brant OPP say the accident occurred at about 5:15 p.m. on Jan. 5 when a westbound Volkswagen van slid into a ditch and became partially submerged in a creek.

Arie Timmermans, the 81-year-old driver, was pulled from the van by a passerby. A local farmer went to the scene and used his tractor to pull the van back onto its wheels, a spokesman for the Brant OPP said.

County of Brant firefighters attended the scene and managed to free Adriaantje Timmermans who was then taken to Brantford General Hospital. Brant County and Oxford County paramedics assisted the injured couple at the scene, police said.

Arie Timmermans suffered minor injuries and was taken to Woodstock General Hospital.

Other links with the article about mom's passing.

http://www.thespec.com/article/698005
http://www.thespec.com/article/698170
http://www.900chml.com/Channels/Reg/NewsLocalGeneral/Home.aspx?pn=15
http://brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2249241&auth=
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2248130
http://www.norwichgazette.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2258472
 

 A few words I wrote and Trudy read on mom's funeral.

 

 I like to read some of our thoughts my sister Rena has written down for all of us.

 

MOTHER

 

This week as we bring our loving Wife, Mother, and Oma to the grave we want to say a few words to express our love for her.

 

Mom’s love for Dad us kids and grandkids could not be measured. Mom loved to take care and serve all of us.

Her deep and personal faith in her precious Savior our Lord Jesus Christ was very visible to all who know Mom well. She spoke often to us about her faith and hope in Christ as she loved her Lord so much.

 

Today Dad, us children and grand children stand united in our grief for this our great loss.

We mourn as we will miss her so dearly. Each of us having so many fond memories.

We know not why our Wife, Mother, Oma and friend was taken from us so sudden and tragically

but the Lord’s ways are higher then our ways and his thoughts are greater then our thoughts.

The Lord is our comfort as we read in his word,

 

“When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.

Though I walk through the valley of shadow of death, I will fear no evil;

for Thou art with me, thy rod and staff they comfort me.”

 

We take comfort in knowing that our loving Wife, Mom, Oma and friend is with our Savior for ever.

 

Veilig in Jezus armen - Safe in Jesus arms

 

 

Dutch song which has given me comfort - Safe in Jesus Arms:

Veilig in Jezus' armen, veilig aan Jezus' hart;

dáár in zijn teer erbarmen, dáár rust mijn ziel van smart.

Hoor, 't is het lied der eng'len, zingend van liefd' en vreê,

ruisend uit 's hemels zalen, over de glazen zee.

Veilig in Jezus' armen, veilig aan Jezus' hart;

dáár in zijn teer erbarmen, daar rust mijn ziel van smart.

 

 

Veilig in Jezus' armen, vrij bij mijn Heer en Borg,

vrij van 't gewoel der wereld, vrij van verdriet en zorg,

vrij van de vrees en twijfel, vrij van der zonden macht;

nog slechts een weinig lijden, nog slechts een korte nacht.

Veilig in Jezus' armen, vrij bij mijn Heer en Borg,

vrij van 't gewoel der wereld, vrij van verdriet en zorg.

 

Jezus, mijn dierb're toevlucht, Jezus, Gij stierft voor mij!

Dat op die rots der eeuwen, eeuwig mijn hope zij.

Heer, laat mij lijdzaam wachten, totdat het duister vliedt,

en 't oog aan gindse kusten uw heillicht gloren ziet.

Jezus, mijn dierb're toevlucht, Jezus, Gij stierft voor mij!

Dat op die rots der eeuwen, eeuwig mijn hope zij.

 

Orgelmuziek Veilig in Jesus Armen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdBnkXMzXPQ

Dit versje had mama opgeschreven en zelf onderstreept

 (waarschijnlijk omdat ze het zo mooi vond).

 We vonden het een paar dagen na de begravenis:

De Heere onze gerechtigheid.

 

Eens was ik een vreemd’ling voor God en mijn hart.

Ik kende geen schuld gevoelde geen  smart.

Ik vroeg niet; mijn ziele, door ziet gij u lot?

Hoe zult gij rechtvaardig verschijnen voor God.

 

Al sprak daar een stemuit de Heilige blaan.

Van ’T Lam met de zonden der wereld belaan.

Ik zocht bij de kruis paal geen veilige wijk.

Stond blind, en van verre, in mij zelven zo rijk.

 

Ik deed als Jeruzalems dochter weleer,

Ik weende om de pijn van mijn leidende Heer’

En dacht er niet aan, dat ik zelf door mijn schuld,

Zijn kroon had gevlochten, Zijn beker gevuld.

 

Maar toen mij Gods Geest aan mij zelf had ontdekt,

Toen werd in mijn  ziele de vreeze gewekt,

Toen voelde ik wat eisen Gods Heiligheid deed.

Daar werd al mijn deugden een wegwerpelijk kleed.

 

 

Toen vluchte ik tot Jezus Hij heeft mij gered;

Hij heeft mij verlost van het vonnis der wet;

Mijn heil en vrede en mijn leven werd Hij.

Ik boog me, geloofde, en mijn God sprak mij vrij.

 

 

Nu ken ik die waarheid  zo diep als gewis,

Dat Christus alleen mijn gerechtigheid is;

Nu tart ik de dood nu verwin ik het graf,

Nu neemt geen satan mij de zegenkroon af!

 

Nu reis ik getroost onder t’ Heilige kruis.

Naar ’t erfgoed daarboven, in ’t vaderlijk huis.

Mijn Jezus geleidt mij door de aardse woestijn.

“Gestorven voor mij” zal mijn zwanen zang zijn.

                                                                                                                 R.M  M’ Cheyne

 

A few days after mom's funeral we found a Dutch poem (as above) that she had written down.

She probably wrote it down as it spoke to her so much. I found the English version (see below).

 

JEHOVAH TSIDKENU.

"THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS"
(The watchword of the Reformers.)

I once was a stranger to grace and to God,
I knew not my danger, and felt not my load;
Though friends spoke in rapture of Christ on the tree,
Jehovah Tsidkenu was nothing to me.

I oft read with pleasure, to sooth or engage,
Isaiah's wild measure and John's simple page;
But e'en when they pictured the blood-sprinkled tree
Jehovah Tsidkenu seem'd nothing to me.

Like tears from the daughters of Zion that roll,
I wept when the waters went over His soul;
Yet thought not that my sins had nail'd to the tree
Jehovah Tsidkenu - 'twas nothing to me.

When free grace awoke me, by light from on high,
Then legal fears shook me, I trembled to die;
No refuge, no safety in self could I see, -
Jehovah Tsidkenu my Saviour must be.

My terrors all vanished before the sweet name;
My guilty fears banished, with boldness I came
To drink at the fountain, life-giving and free, -
Jehovah Tsidkenu is all things to me.

Jehovah Tsidkenu! my treasure and boast,
Jehovah Tsidkenu! I ne'er can be lost;
In thee I shall conquer by flood and by field,
My cable, my anchor, my breast-plate and shield!

Even treading the valley, the shadow of death,
This "watchword" shall rally my faltering breath;
For while from life's fever my God sets me free,
Jehovah Tsidkenu, my death song shall be.

R.M  M’ Cheyne
Note for modern readers.

The phrase "Jehovah Tsidkenu" is taken from the Anglicised Hebrew of the following two verses in the prophet Jeremiah.

"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." (Jer. 23:5-6) KJV

This is fulfilled in the New Testament in the doctrine of "Justification by Faith" whereby undeserving sinners are accounted righteous before God as a free gift on the basis of the redemption through the blood of Jesus Christ as proclaimed in the Gospel. (See especially Romans chapter 3 verses 21-26.)

 

 

 

 

Een paar dagen na dat mamma was verongelukt vonden we een boek onder haar stoel.

Ze las veel als ze s'avonds niet kon slapen.

De titel was "De Hemel Geopend", een boek over openbaringen.

 

A few days after mom passed away in the accident we found a book under her chair.

She read a lot when she could not sleep at night.

The title of the book was "The heaven opened" a book about Revelations.

 

Oma truly loved and enjoyed all her grandchildren as we can see on the pictures.

One of the last pictures I took of my mom. November 2009

 

We received great comfort from Romans 8

Which was also Read for the funeral Service.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Rom 8:1

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 8: 38 & 39

Mamma

I wish I could have said one last goodbye, given one more last hug and tell you one more time that I loved you so. I wish I could have given one last thank you for all your caring and love and the witness you have been to us.

 Mamma we know you are home in Glory for ever praising your Saviour our Lord Jesus Christ!

 

Oma, Lorena and Opa.

 

On January 30, 2010 I found something on our daughter Janita's desk.

It was a few words Janita had written down about her loving Oma (as below).

Until We Meet Again
 
I cried until there were no tears left
but the tears wouldn't bring you back.
I watched you hoping you'd move,
I watched you to see if you were breathing
but you just lay there peacefully.
I was the last to say good-bye
but all I could do is cry
and then murmur my last farewell.
I asked God to give me strength
as they lowered you gently.
I will come visit your grave
and I'll remember too
all the good times we had.
Until we meet again
only time will tell
that this is not our last farewell.
You are so special
I'll always love you
and I'll miss you forever
 
I watched You
 
I watched you hoping you would move
I watched you to see if you were breathing
I watched you lay there peacefully
I watched you as my mom said her last goodbye
I watched you as everyone else said their last goodbye
I watched you being carried into church
I watched you being carried to the grave
I watched you being lowered down
Now God is watching over you.
 
In memory of my beloved Oma Timmermans
by: Janita Brobbel

 

 

ROMANS CHAPTER 8

1     ¶ There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2     For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3     For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4     That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5     For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6     For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7     Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8     So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9     But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10     ¶ And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11     But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12     Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13     For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14     For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15     For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16     The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17     ¶ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18     For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19     For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20     For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21     Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22     For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23     And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24     For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25     But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26     ¶ Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27     And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28     And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29     ¶ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30     Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31     ¶ What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32     He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33     Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34     Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35     Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36     As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37     Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38     For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39     Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.