Goodbye and Sleep Well

And in a morning's light fleeting moment - like that moment when the sun first shines over the horizon - a life is gone.

A mother's short life is taken.  She returns to the Lord.  And the family grieves.

No matter how much time we had to prepare for the day, since the news of the cancer, we hold back - believing that the battle will be won, believing that Lord will not be so harsh to take away our loved ones.

So another life is lost to the dreaded one.  We mourn.  We grieve.  And life will never be the same again.

And the pain will never go away, even after all the years.

For Agnes, for Anthony, for Jacqueline, for Philip, for Josephine, for Celine, for every single family and friend I have lost over the years, the pain has not gone away.  The memory has not faded.

So today, we said goodbye to another.  And pray and hope that someday, we will find the cure - to the illness, to the pain.


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http://homeofflowers.blogspot.sg/2013/01/the-flower-daffodils_19.html