Matthew Elvy Needham

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merry christmas xx

Maxine Brown

December 15, 2011

BIG HUGS MATTHEW

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⋱♰⋰ Angel Day ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ Your Angel Day in Heaven ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ Many tears will fall for you ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ You touched so many loving hearts ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ There’s so many missing you ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ As you now live in paradise ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ Its Heaven up above stay ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ Close to all your loved ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ ones For it’s you they ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ miss and love ⋱♰⋰
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⋱♰⋰ bigs hugs from me to you and your ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ family and friends that you miss you ever day ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ but in our hearts forever you will not be ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ forgoten you take care love from me ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ Sylvie mommy of Samantha ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ Belanger hugs and XXXX ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ bye for now good ⋱♰⋰

⋱♰⋰ night ⋱♰⋰

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....Goodnight and God Bless..........
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Sylvie Belanger

November 18, 2010

Waiting at the Door

I can’t explain so deep inside
The very fabric of my soul
Only a heart that grieves such loss
Can ever truly understand

It’s like you’re waiting at the door
Until a loved one comes back home
You feel a longing in your heart
When they appear the longing stops

But in a loss that never ends
You’re always standing at that door
You feel the longing in the breeze
So incomplete and never filled

I cannot find the words to say
Just what it’s like to want forever
Never seeing them again
Just always waiting at the door

Alison Mary Dunn

Phyllis Frazier Harris

November 6, 2009

The Pit of Grief

The day my child died, I fell into the pit of grief. My friends watched me struggle through daily life; waiting for the person I once was to arise from the pit, not realizing 'he' is gone forever.

The pit is full of darkness, heartache and despair; it paralyzes your thoughts, movements and ability to ration. The pit leaves you forever changed, unable to surface the person you once were.

Some of my pre-grief friends gather around the top of the pit, waiting for the old me to appear before their eyes, not understanding what’s taking me so long to emerge. After all, in their eyes, I’ve been in the pit for quite sometime. Yet in my eyes, it seems as if I fell in only yesterday.

Not all of my pre-grief friends are gathered around the top of the pit. Some are helping me with the climb out of the darkness. They climb side by side with me from time to time, but mostly they climb ahead of me, waiting patiently at each plateau. Even with these friends I sometimes wonder if they are also waiting for the pre-grief me to magically appear before their eyes.

Then there are the casual acquaintances, you know the ones who say 'Hi, how are you?' when they really don't care or really want to know. These are the people who sigh in relief, that is my child who died and not theirs. You know ... the 'better them, than me' attitude.

My post-grief friends are the ones who climb with me, side by side, inch by inch, out of the pit of grief. They have no way of comparing the pit climbed to the pre-grief person I once was. You see, they started at the bottom of the pit with me. They are able to reassure me when I need reassurance, rest when I need resting, and encourage me to move forward when I don't have the strength. They have no expectations, no memories and no recollection of how I 'should' be. They want me to get better, to smile more often and find joy in life, but they also accepted the person I’ve become. The 'person' who is emerging from the pit.

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Tricia Donaldson Kierans Mum

September 1, 2009

★ Goodnight Beautiful Angel ★

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Kelly Douay

September 1, 2009

GOD IS WITH YOU
YOU SUFFER,IT IS TRUE.
BUT HE IS NEAR YOU,
TRUST IN HIM,AS YOU WOULD TRUST IN YOUR OWN FATHER,
IF HE HAS LET YOU SUFFER,IT IS BECAUSE HE SEES SOMETHING GOOD IN YOU WHICH TODAY YOU DO NOT YET KNOW,
YOUR PEACE OF MIND IS IN YOUR TRUST IN GOD
WHO CAN NEVER LET YOU DOWN,HE WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU HOLDING YOUR HAND EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

Maria Connelly

September 1, 2009