My Mom

[SauceyDish]

With extreme sadness in my heart I have to tell you that my wonderful mother passed away. This is the most difficult thing that I have ever been through. We were very close and I feel lost without her. This is also so hard on my dad and I feel his pain too.

I will not be able to check into the forum as much as I usually do for a little while. I am just going to take it one day at a time.

Thank you for your support.

[Missy]

Saucey, I am saddened to hear of your loss. I'll keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers...

[TasTrooper]

Sorry Saucey. Don't forget when things get hard that you have some friends here.

Sorry to hear that Saucey...If you need to chat let me know...I will listen.... :'(

[SauceyDish]

Thank you all. The funeral is on Saturday and I am just trying to make it through then. This has been the longest week ever.

[Rule303]

I'm very sorry to hear your tragic news. My thoughts are with you at this time of grief.

[m0dified79]

Sorry to hear about your mom man

[Glock23.40]

sorry to hear that. :'(

[SauceyDish]

Thank you for your thoughts. They are comforting and appreciated.

[Charlie]

i must read some of these sites more often

My Mum died of a heart attack and i did not get to say goodbye.......it still hurts .......I lost my Dad and the same happened I did not say goodbye .......it still hurts...

My father took time to wake me up to say goodbye...My wife asked in the middle of the night what was wrong when I sat up in bed ...I told her Dad had just said goodbye to me....she told me to go back to sleep ...10 minutes later the phone went and my sister at the hospital 110 miles away informed me he had passed away some ten minutes before the call.....

Time does heal Saucy.......I keep in my mind that one day we will see each other again.

Got a tear in my eyes now.....anyway......time for me to shut up

[SauceyDish]

Charlie, thank you for your words of sympathy and the touching story of your loss. It seems that there is just never enough time to say everything to our loved ones that we want to.

[Missy]

And a good reminder to those of us lucky enough to still have our parents to let them know what they mean to us, while we still have the time. After they're gone, you can regret for the rest of your life what you never took the time to say.

Make the time now. :)

[Sipowicz]

[size=4]"If tomorrow never comes
Will they know how much I loved them
Did I try in every way to show them every day
That they're my only ones
And if my time on earth were through
And they must face the world without me
Is the love I gave them in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes.

So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes."[/size=4]

~ Garth Brooks, with minor modifications by me.

[SauceyDish]

Thank you Bill.

A friend recently sent the following to me.

PARABLE OF IMMORTALITY

"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 and I stand and watch until at least she hands like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, ‘There she goes.’

‘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 just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination. Her diminished size is in me not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, ‘There she goes!’ there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, ‘Here she comes!’"

By Henry Van Dy*e

[bikemancs]

take it one day at a time. That is how I dealt with the death of my best friend. He was the closest I have ever had to a real dad, my parents devoced when Iw as young.

It was a very sudden heart condition, even now I have a tear remembering him, that was teh hardest ever time for me.

I wish you the best of luck and seriously, one day at a time is the best way for this to happen. Personally, it seams like its never to late to say goodbye, or even, see you later...fro some say hello, then say goodbye....

[DaveHenshall]

at this time of year it wont be easy but you'll be strong, i'm sure of that.

[SauceyDish]

T.J.and bikemancs, thanks for your encouragement. http://adwoff.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Chaplain K.]

Saucey--

Sorry for your loss-- anniversaries can be hard, can't they?

Here is a prayer from the Christian tradition that I found comforting when my mom died:

We seem to give her back to you, dear God, who gave her to us. Yet, as you did not lose her in giving, so we have not lost her by her return. Not as the world gives, give you, O Lover of souls! What you give, you take not away. For what is yours is ours always, if we are yours. And life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. Lift us up, O God, that we may see further; cleanse our eyes that we may see more clearly; draw us closer to yourself, that we may know ourselves nearer to our beloved who are with you. And while your Son prepares a place for us, prepare us for that happy place, that, where they are and you are, we too may be; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.