Posted on 02/10/2009 5:35:47 PM PST by alisasny
9 years ago I met a lovely woman named Regina..she has brain cancer... 9 years later after an honarable fight she is prepared for death. She has battled her brain cancer for 12 years and now it is time for her to pass.
I wish I had something profound to say but all I can do right now is ask my fellow freepers to pray for Regina but mostly pray for her husband and children.
I join in earnest prayer for Regina and her loved as they prepare for her homegoing.
I believe the name of that wonderful booklet is “Gone from my Sight” by Barbara Kearnes. Not sure though. However, if it is the same one my sister had ... it was wonderful and she said she never could have helped her husband nor herself prepare for his departure without it. Sorry for your loss but you will be together again one day.
That’s it. I have a well worn copy.
What a wonderful friend you are to request the Prayer Warriors to help your friend Regina let go. We will pray she does let go and that she and her family are at peace knowing she will take her final journey...perhaps tonight. God bless her and her husband and sons. What a terrible, terrible loss for them. She will be in a better place and free of all pain but their pain begins now. We will pray for every single one of them for strength to get through this and comfort knowing their wife/mother is no longer suffering. My heart breaks for them.
I will remember Regina in my prayers.
Sorry for the loss of your beloved mom. I lost mine back in 1985 and STILL miss and think of her every single day as I do my dad. They will ALWAYS and FOREVER be with me as your mom will be with you. Rest in peace wonderful moms and dads who have gone before us and thank you for the love you gave us.
Gone From My Sight
by Henry Van Dyke
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says: “There, she is gone!”
“Gone where?”
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: “There, she is gone!” there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: “Here she comes!”
And that is dying.
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May the Lord, Jesus Christ, comfort Regina and walk with her husband and children during this ordeal.
Prayers for your friend’s family, alisasny
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Lisa,
God bless Regina. May she and her family take comfort from the Holy Spirit at this time and may her passing be a peaceful one.
Very sad news for such a young woman, but it sounds as though she has a great deal of grace.
~Joseph
Praying now for your friend. May God hold her hand...
I am so sorry for your loss. You, too will be in my thoughts and prayers.
Prayers for Regina as she enters that Wonderful Doorway to Eternity! May the Holy Spirit comfort the family as their ‘Queen” goes Home.
My prayers for your profound loss as well!
Carole~~PA.
Dear Lisa..
Prayers for all going UP
Carole~~PA.
May God our Father grant her a peaceful death, and then take her into His loving arms. And may Jesus walk with her family in their sorrow.
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