[WhiteDaisy128]

Losing a parent shakes the very foundation upon which we are built. I lost my mother to cancer March 10th...there isn't much advice I can give besides time heals wounds...there will forever be holes in our hearts, but time does lessen the pain. I didn't believe that until really this month though. I was holding my mom's hand when she won her battle with cancer...she won eternal life with the Lord.

I hope this poem helps a little. It helped me a lot:

God's Garden

God looked around His garden
And found an empty place.
He then looked down upon the earth,
and saw your tired face.
He put His arms around you
And lifted you to rest.
God's garden must be beautiful
He always takes the best.
He knew that you were suffering
He knew that you were in pain
He knew that you would never
Get well on earth again.
He saw the road was getting rough,
and hills were hard to climb.
So He closed your weary eyelids,
And whispered "Peace be thine".
It broke our hearts to lose you
but you didn't go alone
For part of us went with you
The day God called you home.

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In my Father's house are many rooms;
if it were not so, I would have told you.
I am going there to prepare a place for you
And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come back and take you to be with
me that you also may be where I am.
John 14:2&3

My prayers, of course, are with all the people that your mother touched in her lifetime.

CJ