Dear LeeAnn,
You have my deepest sympathy on the loss of your mother. I know you will
miss her terribly. You were fortunate to be with your mother in the last
days of her life on earth. You will live with the knowledge that you were
there for her to the end. That should comfort you in your loss.
Losing one's parents is difficult because we miss them. After all they have
always been there for us. But Their spirit lives on in us and they are
never gone from our lives because they have deposited so much of themselves
in us. Both of my parents have been gone for some time, but I can still see
them in my mind and I still hear their voices and know they care about me.
Now it is time to allow yourself to grieve and accept that your mother has
moved on to a better place and she waits there for you when it is your time
to join her. She would want you to live the rest of your life to the
fullest.
I love the story:
Liz
>
> 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
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