Posted by polarbear206 on December 7, 2002, at 9:28:26
In reply to My Mom just died - please pray for me, posted by BarbaraCat on December 6, 2002, at 15:15:32
> Dear Folks,
> I'm posting in on this board rather than Social, since I know more of you here, but if Dr. Bob wants to move it, go ahead. I've just had a terrible shock and need your good thoughts. My 84 year old Mom was struck by a car as she was walking home from the store last Monday and taken to the hospital with a fractured leg, seemed to be doing fine. Just this morning she had a blood clot to her heart and died. It was always hard for me and my brother living on the West coast while she insisted on living back in Pennsylvania, but she was a vibrant, happy, strong little lady in excellent health and to have her taken like this is very hard. I had many premonitions for a few months of this happening, almost waiting and expecting to hear about something, strange how these things happen. I also have been 'visited' in my heart many times by my Guardian Angel over the past few weeks, really and truly, as though saying 'The Light of Spirit is with you, be strong'. I was also in the hospital myself with heart and arm pain the week before, although all turned out OK, but it was as though in preparation for something about to happen.
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> I'm doing OK now, I'm a strong and resilient person, although when I get back to her home and have to do the funeral thing and pack up the house(not alone, thankfully. My husband, brother and sister-in-law also), I can't say how well I'll be holding up. So I ask you for your prayers if that is your way, or for lending me some strength whatever way you feel is best. I've come to love you folks and want to all to know. It's the kind of thing that ends up really needing to be shared during times like these. Love to you all, BarbaraCatBarbaraCat,
I'm so sorry for your loss. You are in my thoughts and prayers. May you find strength and comfort from family and friends. Here is a Native American prayer for you.
I give you this one thought to keep
I am with you still, I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints on snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain
I am a gentle autum rain
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight
I am the soft stars that shine at night
Do not think of me as gone
For I am with you in each new dawn
Laura.
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