Beautiful and so sad :(
Thank you for sharing Memaw.
As long as one remembers those who are no longer physically here, the heart still smiles.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Memaw...I immediately thought of my uncle when I read this. He made his transition yesterday morning at age 90.
I am so sorry for your loss diva. Bless you and your family!
Beautiful, memaw. I lost a dear friend in May, so it's especially poignant to me this year.
i know I do that for my children we set the empty plate and I invite their dad who passed away in 1987 to join us, Sometimes I smell his after shave when he is visitng.
My son does not use it.
My other husband died recently and I was with him when he passed, I was holding his hand and I told him I forgave him that Jesus forgave him also. and there was a place for him in the other demention. He would be happy there.
The other night when I was on the internet I could smell his cigar. He smoked a cigar. I just got a faint hint of it, like a musky smell.
And today his children finally found me. He had other wives and other children. My childrens father died before I met my last one.
I am going to tell my Step children to always sit a place for him to he would want to be with them. Now that he is free of pain. i feel to that he got to speak to his parents. And he found out that they loved him.
And they had missed him to. they had pain in their life when they died and were set free. And where always looking after him. Just like my mother does for me.
I really miss my last husband. But I want to remeber him when I had christmas Dinner with him before he got very sick. And then went off to die. I was called by the VA they wanted to put him on life suport but he told me he did not want that they could not find anything that said that.
I was able to put him in Hospis and he was able to pass over in peace and love. I read the bible to him and sang his christian songs he liked. He smiled. He communicated by holding my hand. He was afaid when I had to get my medication at home and come back. I told him to hang on till I got back. He did. And when there was an accident on the bus I was reying to get to him then. He waited. Then I got him in hospis he was more relaxed. He could not talk anymore he just breathed the best he could do and he was happy he was not in pain anymore. It was the holding of his hand and telling him that he was forgiven I think that helped him the most. I gave his eyes for corneas and hisskin for burn victums. He would of wanted it that way. He seem to tell me thank you recently. I could fell it. I am so happy he does not have to be in pain anymoore.
My day was such a joy when they came. I hope to find more of his stuff to give to them. My day and night was brightened by their place in my life today. I was never close to them. But I am happy they found me. Anna a brightsoul.
Sorry about your losses birightsoul, but you are right to remember those passed on as they were. Putting a empty place is a great idea. It reminds us all of those who are with us in spirit.
Memaw, yet another wonderful and profoundly moving poem! Thank you so much!
