2021 – Day 200 – There She is Gone
I will love you always, as I know you always have loved me. I will remember you forever, as you always remembered me. I will go forward with love in my heart and courage to face the unknown. Life continues, but it’s lost a little magic since you left this corporeal existence. I know your magic will find its way to another soul; that’s what you once told me happens when someone you love dies — everything good and kind and wonderful about them finds a new soul and returns to this realm. I believed you then and I believe it still. Your lessons stay learned. Well
, most of them.
I was blessed to have you as my mother. You taught me how to find joy and love and how to bring it to others. You taught me the beauty of wonder and how it’s so important to hold on to it, to share it, to encourage it, to keep it alive in your heart. You taught me to laugh, even when you most feel like weeping or when you’re scared. You were my home, both literally and figuratively. You were my True North and my home port, my first love. You were and always will remain my mom.
Love doesn’t end just because someone dies. Your love is in every sunset chased, flower noticed, in the laughter of a child, in the very air I breathe. You were made of stardust and to stardust you shall return until you find the next new spirit is borne into this world.
Thank you for your love and for all the light you shined upon us all. I will love you always, as I know you always have loved me. I will remember you forever, as you always remembered me. I will go forward with love in my heart and courage to face the unknown.
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.
~ Luther F. Beecher
Thank you for your love
, my dear.
At around 0130 this early morning, she left us.
Vale, Mom.
Oh, dear God. I am so sorry, J.
Praying for everyone who loves her so very much, that your grief will be tempered by wonderful memories.
xo
Comment by pam — 2021/07/19 @ 04:25
Thank you, Pam.
All’s well here. Just going through the end-of-life aftermath. It’s going to be an interesting time.
Comment by Da Goddess — 2021/07/19 @ 17:08
I’m always here if you ever want to talk.
Comment by pam — 2021/07/21 @ 17:28
{{{Hugs}}}
Comment by Da Goddess — 2021/07/23 @ 01:46