Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts - it’s what you do with what you have left.
and all we have left are memories...
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
met my aunt at the cemetery this morning to decorate my moms grave…i hadn’t seen her since 2008. she reminds me so much of my mother…she is really the only connection i have left. we had a great visit but it was SO hard to watch her drive away…had myself a little melt down :(
uhohyeahwho: great submission, thank you!
When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
Fairness does not govern life and death, if it did, no good person would ever die young.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
This is a wonderful book. It helped me so much after the death of my mother.
Cancer.im - A Kind of Cancer Social Network...
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Taken straight from the above website…
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How am I going to make it through the holidays if I can’t even listen to a Christmas carol with out tearing up?
Even five years later the holidays are hard…they don’t mean anything to me anymore without my mom…time does make it better though…hang in there!
It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.
One Sweet World: Letters to Mama
Mama,
Sometimes I get this overwhelming feeling to call you just to chat. It takes my heart a couple of seconds to catch up with my brain and for me to realize that I can’t do that. Maybe if I write you some letters, it will help that overwhelming feeling shrink.
You’ve been gone from us now…
I’ve been where you are…hold on…time will help you heal.
