Hello all,
I am in the process of printing your wonderful posts to me. Oh...by the way at
least temporarily (my hubby rigged this for me) I have an online connection
again. I had said my computer was down, actually it is a strange phone
problem. We still have our business line, but with horrible access to the
computer. Anyway,
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you all for your care, concern. love and prayers.
Here is a sweet poem that is in the booklet Gone From My Sight. It was given
to me by the hospice nurse (who by the way is wonderful and a 13 year breast
cancer survivor, I told her about MOL, hope to see her here)
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails
to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of
beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a
speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each
other.
Then someone at my side says: "There she is gone!"
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull
and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her
load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when
someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching
her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout:
"Here she comes!"
And that is dying.
Henry Van Dyke
Guys, this was so much how it was with Mom. I was sitting on the bed with
her, and she slowly, slowly stopped breathing. I looked at the nurse who was
there with us..to confirm what I thought and all she said was, yes. I know
that the others had been watching her coming and did raise their voices and
shout: "Here she comes!"
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. After this journey we have taken, I
see death differently than before, never again will any loved one's size seem
diminished in me as I have felt before. I have learned and grown from this,
and again (hate to inflate all your egos toooo much but....) much credit goes
to ALL molers.
I appreciate your prayers, keep 'em comin'...thanks,
Love,
Lee Anne
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