LeeAnne, what a wonderful posting in memory of your mother. I'm sorry for
your loss and so glad to hear that her end came so peacefully. God Bless,
Jeanne
At 06:12 AM 11/28/98 EST, you wrote:
>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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