Cherished Memories

"Sometimes it's hard to understand
To see the reason why
Sometimes it's hard to find the words
To say that last goodbye.
Sometimes it's hard to look ahead
With eyes still filled with tears
But all our cherished memories
Will live on through the years.
And though there are no answers
The questions still remain
Sometimes we just can't comprehend
Or understand the pain.
Sometimes it's hard to look beyond
The rainclouds in the sky
Though all our cherished memories
Will stay as time goes by.
Sometimes when we close our eyes
The only thing we see
Are moments that are long gone by
Of how things used to be.
Sometimes we need to just let go
Let tears fall as they may
Reliving cherished memories
That never fade away."
..............Author Unknown

The snow arrived unannounced.
It overwhelmed everything.
Changed the landscape so it was unrecognisable.
No one was prepared.
My grief feels like that snowstorm.
I feel changed weighed down by the burden.
Trying to negotiate the new environment around me.
Not knowing where I am going.
Looking for familiar landmarks.
I feel cold and miserable and ill equipped in this new place unvisited before.
But I know in time the snow will melt and return the landscape to some semblance of normality.
And I know in time my grief will diminish and I will find my way forward again back to a world that I recognise changed but familiar.
Spring does always come after winter and hope will return.

LOVING YOU ALWAYS~FORGETTING YOU NEVER**

JUST SAYING YOUR NAME DAVID, AND ALL THE MEMORIES COME FLOODING BACK~MOST OF THEM ARE SUCH GOOD MEMORIES, OF YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR, YOUR TENDER SIDE, YOUR BEAUTIFUL SMILE, HOW YOU ALWAYS TOLD ME (EVERY TIME) THAT YOU LOVED ME~OH HOW MUCH I MISS YOU!!! LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME, BUT I KNOW THAT GOD WILL HEAL MY HEART~IN TIME~BUT WITH THE GOOD MEMORIES COME THE MEMORY OF THE DAY YOU LEFT US, THAT WILL STAY WITH ME FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. I LOVE AND MISS YOU! WE ALL DO! WHEN GOD WAKES YOU, WE WILL ALL BE THERE, AND WE WILL BE TOGETHER FOR ALL ETERNITY!!

ROMANS 8:18

"FOR I RECKON THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE COMPARED WITH THE GLORY WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US"

"I loved the boy with the utmost love of which my soul is
capable of and he is taken from me
- yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure
I feel a thousand times richer than
if I had never possessed it."

...............-William Wordsworth