In this hour of sadness
I look around and wonder
how one person, can touch so many people.
We were blessed with your infectious smile,
your love for life, your soul, your aura.
Yet you were rewarded with death.
One has to wonder, why one so blessed,
with the gift of love, shoulde deserve to die a pre-mature and sorrowful death.
Sitting in the church, listening to the beautiful eulogy of your life,
I can honestly agree with everything said and can also say that you were and probably will always remain, the nicest, most caring person i have ever met.
How often do you hear people praise others after they have died, with things you had never noticed when they were alive?
Its too common a trait of those in mourning.
As i sit in the pieu, a few rows behind your beautiful family, all I can feel is sadness.
Sadness for your daughter, my friend, your two sons, and your husband of 30 years. They are staying strong, yet i know the hurt they are feeling inside, I can feel it, and it aches. I cannot fathom the pain i would feel at losing my mother at such a young age, or a wife of 30 years.
I look up, and blurred under my tears i see your daughters beautiful face, much like yours, and she has also lost weight. Not from sickness, but from stress, pain, numbness. Her face has sunken, a lot like your face looked that one time last week when i visited you in hospital, unknown to me it would be the last.
Just quietly, I feel she will deteriorate, and will hide it all inside. Maybe your family will learn to live life again, yet it will always be different, never the same.
So please, watch over them, bless their souls, as we blessed yours today. You were their backbone, and they are now spineless. You touched so many people, the church was full to the rafters of your close friends, my mum included, thankyou for being such a good friend to her, one of her best.
Most of all, we miss you, and just want you to know that we feel priveleged to have you as a memory.
Rest in peace Terri.
[ 25 September 2002: Message edited by: Taliana ]
I look around and wonder
how one person, can touch so many people.
We were blessed with your infectious smile,
your love for life, your soul, your aura.
Yet you were rewarded with death.
One has to wonder, why one so blessed,
with the gift of love, shoulde deserve to die a pre-mature and sorrowful death.
Sitting in the church, listening to the beautiful eulogy of your life,
I can honestly agree with everything said and can also say that you were and probably will always remain, the nicest, most caring person i have ever met.
How often do you hear people praise others after they have died, with things you had never noticed when they were alive?
Its too common a trait of those in mourning.
As i sit in the pieu, a few rows behind your beautiful family, all I can feel is sadness.
Sadness for your daughter, my friend, your two sons, and your husband of 30 years. They are staying strong, yet i know the hurt they are feeling inside, I can feel it, and it aches. I cannot fathom the pain i would feel at losing my mother at such a young age, or a wife of 30 years.
I look up, and blurred under my tears i see your daughters beautiful face, much like yours, and she has also lost weight. Not from sickness, but from stress, pain, numbness. Her face has sunken, a lot like your face looked that one time last week when i visited you in hospital, unknown to me it would be the last.
Just quietly, I feel she will deteriorate, and will hide it all inside. Maybe your family will learn to live life again, yet it will always be different, never the same.
So please, watch over them, bless their souls, as we blessed yours today. You were their backbone, and they are now spineless. You touched so many people, the church was full to the rafters of your close friends, my mum included, thankyou for being such a good friend to her, one of her best.
Most of all, we miss you, and just want you to know that we feel priveleged to have you as a memory.
Rest in peace Terri.
[ 25 September 2002: Message edited by: Taliana ]
