Posted on 04/21/2009 2:51:23 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow
It is with the profoundest grief that I inform Free Republic that one of the most inspirational and influential FReepers has passed away. Alia was my wife for 28 years and through thick and thin, she was my bulwark. She was also a devoted member here and I believe an important contributor. She passed from this vale of tears this past night at 1 am. Please find a moment in your day today to remember her in prayer.
+Jesus+ said, Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself: that where I am, there ye may be also.
Sorry to hear about your loss. Take solace in the fact that our God is righteous, loving and just and his desire is for all to come to him and be saved.
My deepest sympathies.
My prayers go out to you, your beloved wife and your family.
In paradisum deducant te Angeli; in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres, et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Ierusalem. Chorus angelorum te suscipiat, et cum Lazaro quondam paupere æternam habeas requiem.
My prayers are with you and your wife. May God rest her soul.
I’m sorry to hear this, God bless you all
Sorry to hear of your loss, my FRiend......
I’m very sorry to hear that. Prayers for Alia and for you.
God will point the way, my friend
He brings us blessed calm
If we but utter prayers in faith
He'll supply the healing balm
My heartfelt condolences to you and family.
Leni
Prayers and condolences in this trying time.
Lord, accept your servant Alia in Thy loving embrace.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Sympathies or memorial donations for Alia can be made to their church, St. Joseph’s Anglican, at the following address:
2034 Owls Nest Rd, Sanford, NC 27330
Also see their website,
http://stjosephssanford.org/index.html
MitchellC, can you ping the NC list? Sionnsar or Huber, the Anglican list?
My condolences. May she rest in peace.
May perpetual light shine upon her and may her soul through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
My sincerest condolences to you and your family. May the love of God console you at this time.
Sincerest condolences. BTT.
I so sorry. Alia will be greatly missed on FR. My thoughts and prayers are with you. God bless.
Rest in Peace Dear Alia.
deepest condolences on your grievous loss
She home-schooled our children in California when it was all but against the law to stand up against the education establishment. She campaigned vigorously and effectively for Props 174, 187 and 209. She made sure that the CCRA retained the provisions denying females privilege before the bar of the law. She led us out of CA and into NC where our children have a fighting chance to have some kind of attainable, wholesome future. She cared for her daughter and her grand-daughter when they had no one else, coming across country to do it. She gave of herself every day of her life and we cherish every moment.
She was truly the most remarkable and lovable woman I ever knew and I suspect ever will know. God blessed me abundantly with her and I am only sorry she will not have the years to come to see the vineyard of her labors bearing fruit as they begin now to do.
I ask her to intercede for me in the communion of the saints.
I recall it well, CD. That was an historic day, when Medea Benjamin thought she had picked a mark and instead found herself trying to beard a tiger. Alia sweetly and swiftly defanged Ms. Benjamin with love and charity. The woman has not been the same since, just as St. Paul told us would happen in Romans. Thank you for your kind words, CD. God bless you.
And the same to you, sir. May she rest in peace.
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