There is nothing more precious than a mothers love...

"Death is a shadow that always follows the body." - English Proverb

"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, Of glory in the flower, We will grieve not -- rather find, Strength in what remains behind." - William Wordsworth

In February just days before her birthday I lost my mother to cancer. I and my family feel, that she lived her life so well, that she had no further unfinished business and was called to a higher purpose. Of her illness, I can only say that it took her swiftly enough to not cause a lingering pain and suffering but slow enough for us to say good bye. Although I told her I loved her and that I would do the things we had talked about, I kept hoping beyond all hope that God would step in and answer the single prayer in my heart... "Please God, Please don't take my Mommy away." That stocatto beat in my every waking moment at her side. I said my farewell and I could see that she needed to hear me say it. However, here is the ultimate, Au revoir. She would have understood this more than some would have guessed and I loved her all the more for it. 2/10/98

"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky." - Emily Dickenson

"And is not that a Mother's gentle hand that withdraws your curtains, And a mother's sweet voice that summon you to rise. To rise and forget, in the bright sunlight, The ugly dreams that frightened you so when dark." -Lewis Carrol

"Great people are those who make others feel that they too can become great." - Mark Twain

"Many things about tomorrow, I don't understand; But I know who holds tomorrow and I know who holds my hand." - Ira Stanphill

"...To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Along the Road

I walked a mile with Pleasure,

She chattered all the way;

But left me none the wiser

For all she had to say

I walked a mile with Sorrow,

And ne'er a word she said;

but, OH, the things I learned from her

when Sorrow walked with me.

- Robert Browning Hamilton

"Sometimes music cannot substitute for tears." - Paul Simon

It has been awhile since she has gone. I know that I will see her again someday. It still doesn't make it any easier or the pain any less. Yet, in the quiet moments of my memory, I can love her and not regret. 2-10-03

Clare de Lune by Mousorgsky
is the midi playing now

In closing I want to say that, my mother lived her life to the fullest. Sure she stumbled along the way...who doesn't? She raised her children the best she knew how. She instilled love and compassion in us, and I know she was proud of how we turned out. She loved everyone, even though she disagreed or disliked someone or thing it didn't stop her from smiling and making that person feel as if they were the most important one in the world. In watching her illness I learned some things that can be best expressed with some parting quotes. [big surprise to my family and friends :)]

"Joy is not in things, it is in us." - Ben Franklin

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie

"Do not put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today." - Josh Billings

"When we learn to say a deep passionate YES to the things that really matter... then peace begins to settle upon our lives like golden sunlight sifting to the forest floor." - Thomas Kinkade

"Time heals all wounds." - unknown

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