A YEAR AGO OCT I BROUGHT MY MOM TO LIVE WITH ME, SHE WAS HAPPY AND SHE SAT ON MY PORCH AND SHE WOULD SING AND WATCH THE KIDS ALL PLAY, SHE NEVER COMPLAINED ABOUT NOTHING, SHE WOULD HAVE COMPANY AND ENJOY ALL THOSE WHO VISITED, FROM FAMILY TO FRIENDS EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU HELPED FILL HER DAYS AND MEMORIES. A LOT HAS HAPPEN TO US THIS PAST YEAR, WONDERFUL THINGS LIKE TRAVIS GOT MARRIED TO HIS BEAUTIFUL BRIDE AMBER IN THE SMOKEY MOUNTAINS, ALOT OR YOU WERE THERE FOR THE EVENT, WE LOST SEVERAL LOVED ONES IN JUST ONE YEAR THIS PAST YEAR, TO MANY TO MENTION BUT I KNOW HEAVEN IS A VERY NICE PLACE BECAUSE OF WHO ALL HAS LEFT HERE TO GO THERE. BUT WITH ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT HAS HAPPEN THERE IS ALSO BAD THINGS AS WELL, IN NOVEMBER MOM STARTED HAVING STROKES, AND IN A MATTER OF JUST A 2 WEEK PERIOD SHE WAS STRUCK DOWN TO HER BED, WE WATCHED HER SLOWLY GROW WEAK, AND FRAIL, BUT STILL SHE NEVER COMPLAINED, ALWAYS TRIED TO SMILE, AND THEN ONE MORNING ANOTHER STROKE HIT HER, SHE NEVER TALKED AGAIN AFTER THAT, OH WHAT A SAD SILENCE THERE WAS , AND SHE COULD NO LONGER EAT, AND YET ALL MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS GATHERED AROUND AND CAME TO VISIT ME AND HER AND JUST TO MAKE THE TIME PASS FOR US, I THANK ALL OF YOU FROM THE VERY DEPTS OF MY HEART, EVEN THO MOM COULDNT TALK TO YOU I FEEL LIKE SHE KNEW YOU WERE ALL HERE, BUT THE MOST PRECIOUS THING TO ME WAS ALL MY CHILDREN GATHERING AROUND HER BED, AND ME SITTING TO THE SIDE OF HER AND THEM ALL TALKING TO HER AND ME AND SHE HAD TO OF HERD EVERY ONE OF YOU, RIGHT DOWN TO MY GRANDCHILDREN BEING THERE TALKING TO HER, AND SHEDDING TEARS WITH ME AS I WATCHED HER SLIP AWAY LITTLE BY LITTLE. THE LAST WEEK OF HER LIFE SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY HER FAMILY, SISTERS AND BROTHERS WERE HERE THOSE THAT WERE ABLE AND HER CHILDRN AND A LOT OF HER GRANDCHILDREN, EVERY DAY THEY WERE ALL HERE, AND I APPRECIATE EACH AND EVERYONE OF THEM, SUCH LOVE AND RESPECT I HAD NEVER SEEN, AND IT MADE ME SO PROUD, PROUD THEY WERE ALL MINE AND I WAS THERE MOMMA OR MOMAW. I HAD MY OLDEST DAUGHTER IN LAW BY MY SIDE THAT WEEK AND GOD KNOWS SHE WAS A GOD SEND IN EVERY WAY, I LOVE YOU MARY THORNTON FOR ALL YOU HELPED ME THRU, AND ALL THE REST OF MY KIDS WERE HERE ALSO AND THEY STOOD BY MY SIDE AND THEIR GRANDMAWS SIDE , NOW THATS FAMILY. MY BROTHER TIMMY WAS HERE AS MUCH AS HE COULD BE BUT THE NIGHT BEFORE SHE PASSED HE HAD BEEN HERE AND WE JUST WENT OUT AND LET HIM VISIT WITH HER AS LONG AS HE WANTED, THE MORNING CAME AS SO MANY HAD AND TIMMY ALWAYS CALLED ME TO SEE HOW HER NIGHT HAD GONE, AS I ANSWERED THE PHONE, I WALKED INTO MOMS ROOM AS I DID EVERY MORNING AND I TALKED TO TIM, MOM WAS BREATHING RESTING EASY AND FINE WHEN WE WERE TALKING, AS I TOLD TIM HER NIGHT HAD BEEN PRETTY RESTFUL SHE ALL OF A SUDDEN TOOK HER LAST BREATH, A SMILE ON HER FACE AND JUST A SWEET RELEASE OF THAT FINAL BREATH, TIM AND I WERE SILENT, AND I TOLD TIM IT WAS OVER FOR HER, WHAT I SEEN THE LAST WEEK OF HER LIFE WAS A TRANSITION OF LIFE AND DEATH, AND I HAFT TO SAY IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL THING AS WELL AS A SAD THING, BUT AT THAT MOMENT SHE DREW THAT FINAL BREATH SHE LOOKED LIKE SHE DID 50 YEARS AGO, THE PEACE THAT CAME OVER HER WAS JUST REMARKABLE TO WITNESS. I KNEW AT THAT MOMENT WHAT SHE WAS SEEING AND FEELING IN HER HEART, AND I NOW KNOW THERE ARE ALOT OF THINGS IN THIS WORLD WORSE THAN DEATH. SHE WILL NEVER CRY AGAIN, AND SHE FINALLY GOT TO GO WHERE SHE WANTED TO BE, AND THO SOME DONT THINK SO ,I KNOW SHES WITH MY DAD AND MY BROTHER AND THEY ARE ALL HAPPY, AND SOMEDAY I WILL SEE THEM ALL AGAIN, DONT KNOW WHY IM WRITING THIS , I JUST DID, ITS ON MY HEART AND I GUESS I JUST NEEDED TO POUR IT OUT, AND IT WILL SOON BE A YEAR SINCE HER PASSING, AND THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET, LOVE AND PRAYERS TO MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT MIGHT TAKE TIME TO READ THIS, BUT GOD IS GOOD AND HES NEVER TO LATE, HE ALWAYS HAS A PLAN, THIS I TRULY BELIEVE, ~MARILYN~
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 07:26:47 +0000
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