Over the last few months I have used this blog to share my thoughts about my friend. I don’t know if anyone has read these posts, but it did help me to put into words what I was feeling. Today my friend got her wish and prayer. She wanted to leave this world and to die at home. She died early this morning in her own bed. My husband and I will miss her. We will miss our visits, the sharing of flowers, stories and the meals and treats I would cook and share. I will always remember our friendship, especially when the flowers start to bloom. Yes, we will miss her but we are glad that she is with God now, no more pain and suffering.
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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
By: Nancy Witthuhn on April 12, 2010
at 6:49 pm
Thanks Nancy, this says it so well.
By: allthingscharlene on April 12, 2010
at 9:13 pm
My sympathy and prayers go with you. Friendship is a wonderful blessing and loosing that friend leave a hole in our hearts and lives. However, we still have a part of that person in our lives by recalling all the wonderful memories of our time together, and I can tell you have many wonderful memories.
By: Jean Schlegel on April 15, 2010
at 1:42 pm
Thanks Jean. I keep expecting to see my friend and her house is so quiet and empty. She lived on the other side of the duplex from us. It is so good not to see her struggle anymore and I do have great memories.
By: allthingscharlene on April 15, 2010
at 10:10 pm