LeeAnne: Elizabeth said it better than I ever could, but I want you to know
that my heart goes out to you, too. Love and prayers, Kathy in Boise
-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Patterson <eapat@ewa.net>
To: mol-cancer@lists.meds.com <mol-cancer@lists.meds.com>
Date: Saturday, November 28, 1998 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: [MOL] Thank you everyone
>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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