Going Home

by Anon (for Lynda Swaim)

Go rest now precious one,
Your life in eternity has just begun.
Now you can walk, your legs are brand
new.
All of heaven is now in your view.

Look all around, it’s all in your sight,
There will never be another dark night.
Flowers and jewels, the street of pure gold,

and all of the things that have been told.

I can just imagine the smile on your face

as you walk all around in that beautiful place.
Greeting our loved ones as you walk along,

while singing heaven’s most beautiful song.

This is so very hard,but it will all be okay,

it isn’t goodbye,we’ll see you one day.
We love you and we’ll miss you and at times it will be tough,

but as with everything,God’s grace will be enough

You Must Never Forget
by Mary E Carpenter
You are loved,
More than the heavens.
Cherished,
More than the seas.

More beautiful
Than butterflies –
Carried
On the breeze.

Brighter
Than the sunshine.
More precious
Than gold.

Laughter
In the darkness,
And a blessing
To behold.

Poem

by Audrey Hepburn

For attractive lips,
speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes,
seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure,
share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair,
let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.

For poise,
walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands;
one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others. 

God saw she was getting tired

 by Anon (for all my sisters who didn’t make it –  miss you)

God saw she was getting tired
And a cure was not to be.
So He put His arms her
And whispered, “Come with Me.”

With tearful eyes we watched
Her suffer
And saw her fade away
Although we loved her dearly,
We could not make her stay.
A golden heart stopped beating,
Hard working hands to rest.
God broke our hearts to prove to us
He only took the best.

Smiles Cost Nothing

 by Anon (long time favourite of mine)
A smile costs nothing, but gives a lot. 

It enriches those who receive it without making poorer those who give it. 

A smile takes only a moment,  but the memory of it can last forever. 

No one is so rich, or so mighty, that they can get a long without a smile. 

And no one is so poor that they cannot be made richer by a smile. 

A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in business and is the

counter sign of friendship. 

A smile brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the

sad and is nature’s best cure for trouble 

Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen
for it is of no value to anyone until it is given away. 

Some people are too tired to give a smile so give them one of yours as no one needs a smile so much as he who has no more of his own to give.

Loss

We never actually met
I never saw her face
or heard her voice
except through a strange
unreal, surreal link

But we shared so much
became firm stranger-friends
bound together by a common
unexpected, uninvited, intruding disease
invading, consuming our bodies
too long undiscovered
too long undisturbed

We bumped into each other
in this virtual world
Sharing our tears of laughter and fear
Each other’s face, name
Unknown, unfamiliar
Yet holding each other’s hands
while pushed along our medical path
disease and drugs trying,
but unable,
to strip us of dignity

And then she was gone
Stolen
Suddenly
Unexpectedly
From her family
From her friends
And from a woman she had never met