Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Sept 27, 2007 0:58:18 GMT -5
We come at last to realize,
Death breaks the earthly tie.
But, love survives when grief has passed;
for LOVE CAN NEVER DIE.
- Author Unknown
___________________________________
A Baby is a Blessing
A Gift from Heaven above
A Precious Little Angel
To Cherish and to Love.
- Author Unknown
__________________________________
A butterfly lights beside
us like a sunbeam
and for a brief moment
its glory and beauty
belong to our world;
but then it flies on again
and although we wish
it could have stayed,
we are so thankful
to have seen it at all.
- Author Unknown
__________________________________
A life so young released to heaven,
Left on earth, we wonder 'Why?'
But some are sent among us briefly;
Some have spirits meant to fly.
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
A life that touches others goes on forever.
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
A million times I have needed you,
a million times I have cried.
If love alone could have saved you,
you never would have died.
In life I loved you dearly,
in death I love you still.
In my heart you hold a special place,
that none will ever fill.
It broke my heart to lose you,
but you did not go alone.
For all my love went with you,
the day God called you home."
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
A mother holds her children's hands
for a little while; their hearts forever.
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
An angel opened up the book of life,
wrote down the baby's birth,
and whispered as she closed the book,
"Too beautiful for Earth."
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
But the thing to remember
is that not only the pain will last,
but the blessed memories as well.
Tears are the proof of life.
The more love, the more tears.
If this be true, then how could we
ever ask that the pain cease altogether.
For then the memory of love would go with it.
The pain of grief is the price we pay for love.
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
Conversation With God
When I asked, "Why did you make her have abnormalities?"
He answered, "Not abnormalities, uniqueness."
When I said, "Why are you doing this to us?"
He answered, "Not doing, but allowing."
When I screamed, "I can't live if you take her."
He answered, "I am what sustains you."
When I prayed, "Let this cup pass from my lips."
He said, "All works for my will to be done."
When I cried, "She needs her mother."
He whispered, "Only I love her more than you."
When I held her still body and sobbed, "It is over."
He said, "It has only begun."
When I shook my fist at Heaven and yelled, "I am angry at you."
He said, "I know."
When I said, "You don't understand this pain, this loss."
He reminded me, "I, too, lost my child, my only child."
When I asked, "How? How can I help anyone when I'm in this pit?"
He said, "Slowly, you will heal, and comfort others."
- Author Unknown
__________________________________
Could we ever forget your sparkling eyes
or the way you brightened each day,
or your smile
which is etched in our memories,
so you're never far away?
Could we ever forget
those priceless moments?
The answer, of course, is never.
For you were part of our lives
for a brief time,
but you'll be part of our hearts forever.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
Love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Don't cry because it's over,
Smile because it happened.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Gone yet not forgotten
Although we are apart.
God has you in his keeping,
I have you in my heart.
- Author Unknown
______________________________
"How long will the pain last?"
A broken-hearted mourner asked.
"All the rest of your life,"
I answered truthfully.
- Author Unknown
______________________________
How lucky I am to have known someone,
Who was so hard to say goodbye to.
- Author Unknown
______________________________
I remember before I had children
I thought there was nothing worse
than having a child die before you.
Now I know that's not true.
Not having them in your life
at all would be worse.
- Author Unknown
______________________________
I think about how much I miss him,
and start to feel sorry for myself....
but then I think about all the people
who never got the chance to meet him,
and I start to feel sorry for them.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
If I could have a lifetime wish;
A dream that would come true
I'd pray to God with all my heart,
for yesterday and you.
A thousand words can't bring you back,
I know because I've tried.
Neither will a million tears,
I know because I've cried.
You left behind my broken heart,
And happy memories too.
I never wanted memories,
I only wanted you.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Just think of him as living in
the hearts of those he touched.
For nothing loved is ever lost,
and he was loved so much.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Loving you is easy, we do it every day.
Missing you is a heartache
that never goes away.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
No matter how many years pass,
we remember. The loss of a loved one
is like a major operation;
part of us is removed,
and we have a scar
for the rest of our lives.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Our family chain is broken
and nothing seems the same;
but as God calls us one by one,
the chain will link again.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Our family is a circle of strength and love.
With every birth and every union, the circle grows.
Every joy shared adds more love.
Every crisis faced together
makes the circle stronger.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky,
but rather openings where
our loved ones shine down
to let us know they are happy.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Remembering
Go ahead and mention my child,
The one that died, you know.
Don't worry about hurting me further.
The depth of my pain doesn't show.
Don't worry about making me cry.
I'm already crying inside.
Help me to heal by releasing
The tears that I try to hide.
I'm hurt when you just keep silent,
Pretending he didn't exist.
I'd rather you mention my child,
Knowing that he has been missed.
You asked me how I was doing.
I say "pretty good" or "fine".
But healing is something ongoing.
I feel it will take a lifetime.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
Remembering You
Your time on earth seemed all too brief
because I wanted you in my life forever.
And although I really miss you,
in my heart I know that you are at peace.
Still, countless times throughout the day
I find myself remembering you.
Although I cannot see or hear you,
I know that you are with me.
I'll feel you in the warmth of the summer sun.
I'll see you in the brilliance of autumn leaves.
You'll be beside me in the
peacefulness of a gentle snowfall,
and rejoice with me at the emergence
of the first flowers of spring.
I'm thankful for the times we shared
and the priceless memories too;
for those memories are a comfort now
when I lovingly remember You.
- Author Unknown
____________________________________
Some people dream of angels.
I've held one in my arms.
- Author Unknown
____________________________________
Tears are the proof of life.
- Author Unknown
____________________________________
The various stages of grief.
It's not fluid. It doesn't always
follow a pattern that makes sense.
Often, the months further out are
just as hard, if not harder, than
some of those right in the beginning.
You're just numb then. Now, the pain
is much more apparent.
- Author Unknown
____________________________________
Then the wound is healed, so to speak,
the stitches are taken out...
The scar is still there,
and the scar tissue, too.
As the years go by, we manage.
But the pain is still there,
not far below the surface.
We see a face that looks familiar,
hear a voice that has echoes,
see a photograph in someone's album,
and it is as though the knife
were in the wound again.
But not so painfully.
And mixed with joy, too.
Because remembering a happy time
is not all sorrow; it brings back
happiness with it.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
This doesn't mean that the pain
continues at the same intensity.
There is a short while, at first,
when we hardly believe it.
It is rather like when we cut our hand,
we see the blood flowing,
but the pain has not yet set in.
So when we are bereaved,
there is a short while
before the pain hits us.
But when it does,
it is massive in its effect.
Grief is shattering.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
To live in the hearts
of those we love
is never to die.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
To know him was to love him.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
To the whole world he was but one;
but to us he was the whole world.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
What the heart has
once owned and had,
It shall never lose.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
When someone comes into our lives . . .
and they are too quietly and quickly gone,
they leave footprints on our hearts,
and their memory stays with us forever.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
You held my hand for just a short while,
but you will hold my heart for ever.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
They say that time in heaven is compared
to 'the blink of an eye' for us on this earth.
Sometimes it helps me to think of my child
running ahead of me through a beautiful field
of wildflowers and butterflies;
so happy and completely caught up
in what he is doing, that by the time
he turns around to see if
I'm behind him . . . I will be.
- Judy Bruner
_________________________________
There are only two lasting bequests
we can hope to give our children.
One of those is roots,
the other, wings.
- Hodding Carter
_________________________________
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself,
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Sir Winston Churchill
_________________________________
Grief is the painful price we pay for
our heartfelt connections with others.
- Deborah L. Davis
_________________________________
What do we live for, if it is not to
make life less difficult for others?
- George Eliot
_________________________________
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
- Finnish Proverb
_________________________________
To accomplish great things we must not only act,
but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
_________________________________
We cannot judge a biography by its length,
by the number of pages in it; we must judge
by the richness of the contents.
Sometimes the “unfinisheds” are
among the most beautiful symphonies.
- Victor Frankl
_________________________________
Love knows not its own depth,
until the hour of separation.
- Kahlil Gibran
_________________________________
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart
and you shall see that in truth, you are weeping
for that which has been your delight.
- Kahlil Gibran
_________________________________
Like a rainbow fading
in the twinkling of an eye . . .
Gone too soon.
Like the loss of sunlight
on a cloudy afternoon.
Gone too soon.
Shiny, sparkly, splendidly bright;
here one day, gone one night . . .
Gone too soon . . .
- Michael Jackson
_________________________________
Though the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller
_________________________________
What we have once enjoyed,
we can never lose.
All that we love deeply
becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
_________________________________
The quality, not the
longevity of one's life,
is what is important.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
_________________________________
We must accept finite disappointment,
but we must never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
_________________________________
A new baby is like the beginning of all things
-Wonder, Hope, a dream of possibilities.
- Eda J. Le Shaw
_________________________________
We make a living by what we get;
but we make a life by what we give.
- Norman MacEwan
_________________________________
A small boy looked at a star and began to weep.
The star said "Boy, why are you weeping?"
And the boy said "You are so far away -
I will never be able to touch you."
And the star answered "Boy, if I were not already
in your heart, you would not be able to see me."
- John Magliola
_________________________________
The measure of life is not
its duration but its donation.
- Peter Marshall
Death breaks the earthly tie.
But, love survives when grief has passed;
for LOVE CAN NEVER DIE.
- Author Unknown
___________________________________
A Baby is a Blessing
A Gift from Heaven above
A Precious Little Angel
To Cherish and to Love.
- Author Unknown
__________________________________
A butterfly lights beside
us like a sunbeam
and for a brief moment
its glory and beauty
belong to our world;
but then it flies on again
and although we wish
it could have stayed,
we are so thankful
to have seen it at all.
- Author Unknown
__________________________________
A life so young released to heaven,
Left on earth, we wonder 'Why?'
But some are sent among us briefly;
Some have spirits meant to fly.
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
A life that touches others goes on forever.
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
A million times I have needed you,
a million times I have cried.
If love alone could have saved you,
you never would have died.
In life I loved you dearly,
in death I love you still.
In my heart you hold a special place,
that none will ever fill.
It broke my heart to lose you,
but you did not go alone.
For all my love went with you,
the day God called you home."
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
A mother holds her children's hands
for a little while; their hearts forever.
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
An angel opened up the book of life,
wrote down the baby's birth,
and whispered as she closed the book,
"Too beautiful for Earth."
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
But the thing to remember
is that not only the pain will last,
but the blessed memories as well.
Tears are the proof of life.
The more love, the more tears.
If this be true, then how could we
ever ask that the pain cease altogether.
For then the memory of love would go with it.
The pain of grief is the price we pay for love.
- Author Unknown
_________________________________
Conversation With God
When I asked, "Why did you make her have abnormalities?"
He answered, "Not abnormalities, uniqueness."
When I said, "Why are you doing this to us?"
He answered, "Not doing, but allowing."
When I screamed, "I can't live if you take her."
He answered, "I am what sustains you."
When I prayed, "Let this cup pass from my lips."
He said, "All works for my will to be done."
When I cried, "She needs her mother."
He whispered, "Only I love her more than you."
When I held her still body and sobbed, "It is over."
He said, "It has only begun."
When I shook my fist at Heaven and yelled, "I am angry at you."
He said, "I know."
When I said, "You don't understand this pain, this loss."
He reminded me, "I, too, lost my child, my only child."
When I asked, "How? How can I help anyone when I'm in this pit?"
He said, "Slowly, you will heal, and comfort others."
- Author Unknown
__________________________________
Could we ever forget your sparkling eyes
or the way you brightened each day,
or your smile
which is etched in our memories,
so you're never far away?
Could we ever forget
those priceless moments?
The answer, of course, is never.
For you were part of our lives
for a brief time,
but you'll be part of our hearts forever.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
Love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Don't cry because it's over,
Smile because it happened.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Gone yet not forgotten
Although we are apart.
God has you in his keeping,
I have you in my heart.
- Author Unknown
______________________________
"How long will the pain last?"
A broken-hearted mourner asked.
"All the rest of your life,"
I answered truthfully.
- Author Unknown
______________________________
How lucky I am to have known someone,
Who was so hard to say goodbye to.
- Author Unknown
______________________________
I remember before I had children
I thought there was nothing worse
than having a child die before you.
Now I know that's not true.
Not having them in your life
at all would be worse.
- Author Unknown
______________________________
I think about how much I miss him,
and start to feel sorry for myself....
but then I think about all the people
who never got the chance to meet him,
and I start to feel sorry for them.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
If I could have a lifetime wish;
A dream that would come true
I'd pray to God with all my heart,
for yesterday and you.
A thousand words can't bring you back,
I know because I've tried.
Neither will a million tears,
I know because I've cried.
You left behind my broken heart,
And happy memories too.
I never wanted memories,
I only wanted you.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Just think of him as living in
the hearts of those he touched.
For nothing loved is ever lost,
and he was loved so much.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Loving you is easy, we do it every day.
Missing you is a heartache
that never goes away.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
No matter how many years pass,
we remember. The loss of a loved one
is like a major operation;
part of us is removed,
and we have a scar
for the rest of our lives.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Our family chain is broken
and nothing seems the same;
but as God calls us one by one,
the chain will link again.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Our family is a circle of strength and love.
With every birth and every union, the circle grows.
Every joy shared adds more love.
Every crisis faced together
makes the circle stronger.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky,
but rather openings where
our loved ones shine down
to let us know they are happy.
- Author Unknown
_______________________________
Remembering
Go ahead and mention my child,
The one that died, you know.
Don't worry about hurting me further.
The depth of my pain doesn't show.
Don't worry about making me cry.
I'm already crying inside.
Help me to heal by releasing
The tears that I try to hide.
I'm hurt when you just keep silent,
Pretending he didn't exist.
I'd rather you mention my child,
Knowing that he has been missed.
You asked me how I was doing.
I say "pretty good" or "fine".
But healing is something ongoing.
I feel it will take a lifetime.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
Remembering You
Your time on earth seemed all too brief
because I wanted you in my life forever.
And although I really miss you,
in my heart I know that you are at peace.
Still, countless times throughout the day
I find myself remembering you.
Although I cannot see or hear you,
I know that you are with me.
I'll feel you in the warmth of the summer sun.
I'll see you in the brilliance of autumn leaves.
You'll be beside me in the
peacefulness of a gentle snowfall,
and rejoice with me at the emergence
of the first flowers of spring.
I'm thankful for the times we shared
and the priceless memories too;
for those memories are a comfort now
when I lovingly remember You.
- Author Unknown
____________________________________
Some people dream of angels.
I've held one in my arms.
- Author Unknown
____________________________________
Tears are the proof of life.
- Author Unknown
____________________________________
The various stages of grief.
It's not fluid. It doesn't always
follow a pattern that makes sense.
Often, the months further out are
just as hard, if not harder, than
some of those right in the beginning.
You're just numb then. Now, the pain
is much more apparent.
- Author Unknown
____________________________________
Then the wound is healed, so to speak,
the stitches are taken out...
The scar is still there,
and the scar tissue, too.
As the years go by, we manage.
But the pain is still there,
not far below the surface.
We see a face that looks familiar,
hear a voice that has echoes,
see a photograph in someone's album,
and it is as though the knife
were in the wound again.
But not so painfully.
And mixed with joy, too.
Because remembering a happy time
is not all sorrow; it brings back
happiness with it.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
This doesn't mean that the pain
continues at the same intensity.
There is a short while, at first,
when we hardly believe it.
It is rather like when we cut our hand,
we see the blood flowing,
but the pain has not yet set in.
So when we are bereaved,
there is a short while
before the pain hits us.
But when it does,
it is massive in its effect.
Grief is shattering.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
To live in the hearts
of those we love
is never to die.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
To know him was to love him.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
To the whole world he was but one;
but to us he was the whole world.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
What the heart has
once owned and had,
It shall never lose.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
When someone comes into our lives . . .
and they are too quietly and quickly gone,
they leave footprints on our hearts,
and their memory stays with us forever.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
You held my hand for just a short while,
but you will hold my heart for ever.
- Author Unknown
________________________________
They say that time in heaven is compared
to 'the blink of an eye' for us on this earth.
Sometimes it helps me to think of my child
running ahead of me through a beautiful field
of wildflowers and butterflies;
so happy and completely caught up
in what he is doing, that by the time
he turns around to see if
I'm behind him . . . I will be.
- Judy Bruner
_________________________________
There are only two lasting bequests
we can hope to give our children.
One of those is roots,
the other, wings.
- Hodding Carter
_________________________________
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself,
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Sir Winston Churchill
_________________________________
Grief is the painful price we pay for
our heartfelt connections with others.
- Deborah L. Davis
_________________________________
What do we live for, if it is not to
make life less difficult for others?
- George Eliot
_________________________________
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
- Finnish Proverb
_________________________________
To accomplish great things we must not only act,
but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
_________________________________
We cannot judge a biography by its length,
by the number of pages in it; we must judge
by the richness of the contents.
Sometimes the “unfinisheds” are
among the most beautiful symphonies.
- Victor Frankl
_________________________________
Love knows not its own depth,
until the hour of separation.
- Kahlil Gibran
_________________________________
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart
and you shall see that in truth, you are weeping
for that which has been your delight.
- Kahlil Gibran
_________________________________
Like a rainbow fading
in the twinkling of an eye . . .
Gone too soon.
Like the loss of sunlight
on a cloudy afternoon.
Gone too soon.
Shiny, sparkly, splendidly bright;
here one day, gone one night . . .
Gone too soon . . .
- Michael Jackson
_________________________________
Though the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller
_________________________________
What we have once enjoyed,
we can never lose.
All that we love deeply
becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
_________________________________
The quality, not the
longevity of one's life,
is what is important.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
_________________________________
We must accept finite disappointment,
but we must never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
_________________________________
A new baby is like the beginning of all things
-Wonder, Hope, a dream of possibilities.
- Eda J. Le Shaw
_________________________________
We make a living by what we get;
but we make a life by what we give.
- Norman MacEwan
_________________________________
A small boy looked at a star and began to weep.
The star said "Boy, why are you weeping?"
And the boy said "You are so far away -
I will never be able to touch you."
And the star answered "Boy, if I were not already
in your heart, you would not be able to see me."
- John Magliola
_________________________________
The measure of life is not
its duration but its donation.
- Peter Marshall