Posted on 12/11/2004 10:35:44 PM PST by LisaMalia
I try to limit my vanity posts, but I thought this might be a good forum to write thoughts about our loved ones who have passed.
In Memory of Richard Strausbaugh
YOU’D WANT US TO BE HAPPY
You’d want us to be happy
And celebrate the new
No tears of sadness falling
This first Christmas without you.
You’d want us to be happy
In the spirit which you lived
Taking pleasure in the wonder
Of all we have to give.
You’d want us to be happy
We know how much you cared
Always putting yourself last, it seemed
For all you had, you shared.
You’d want us to be happy
Together, your family
Gatherering in faith and harmony
Reminiscing and laughing, with glee.
You’d want us to be happy
Singing Silent Night together
Your very favorite Christmas song
Lives in our hearts forever.
You’d want us to be happy
We’ll try, but as you know
Some teardrops will fall from our eyes
Because we miss you so.
Love to you from your beloved wife, children, grandchildren, and great children.
Nice poem!
We lost my mom on 09/16/01. She was in Hospice, it was five days after the terrorist attacks, and she never knew about them. We didn't want to worry her about my nephews who were serving in the Armed Forces.
My mom loved holidays, and getting the family together, but Christmas was her favorite holiday. It's difficult for us all now that she is in heaven, but I picture her looking down on all of us and smiling. She's with us in spirit, even though she's gone.
My father died Christmas Eve 1997.
What a great idea. Holidays can be so difficult. Your poem was beautiful and I'm sure your dad is enjoying it.
Thanks!
Your mom and my daddy...looking down at us from Heaven smiling....
I've always heard how difficult the holidays can be after losing a loved one...but now I really know what it means.
I am trying to be strong, as that is how my daddy raised me, but it's oh so difficult. I just wish I had one more day with him..but that is not to be...until we meet again someday.
That had to be so difficult for you cyborg. I guess all we can do is look at the Christmas season as a time to be thankful for what we still have.
Sometimes lately I just want to crawl in a hole and forget about the holiday season, but I know I have to get through it, for my family.
God Bless you, my dear friend.
My mother is not into christmas as much as she used to be. I don't really celebrate christmas anymore just take the day off.
Last year was my first Christmas without my mother ~ she'd past away suddenly a few month earlier and I was really having trouble handling the approach of Christmas.
About a week before Christmas a small envelop arrived and in it was a blessing. A blessing I'd like to share with you in hopes that it might bring you and the rest of Richard Strausbaugh's loving family the same sense of peace it brought to me ~
Merry Christmas, LisaMalia
How beautiful. I lost one of my three sisters, she was stillborn 2 years before I came into this world.
I love my two older sisters with all of my heart, but still mourn the loss of my other "big" sister. One way I have coped with the loss of my daddy is that now, she has him with her in Heaven.
Thanks for sharing that, it's beautiful.
I'm going to print it out, and give a copy to all of my family members.
God Bless, and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I lost my mother 2 years ago and my father 3 years ago. Thanks for sharing the lovely poem!
I see we have another thing in common.
They say "sisters are forever"...it's true. Like twins--only 3 years apart in age. I'm blessed with a younger sister in AZ (that I don't get to see often enough.) Gotta fix that.
Heartfelt condolences to you and a prayer for that "peace that surpasses all understanding";
in Jesus Christ,
two
I lived in Belpre, Ohio in 79-81, during my first marriage. My daughter was born in Parkersburg.
Glad I didn't ever get pulled over by your Uncle Pete during my shopping trips to Marietta. Sounds like he was a pistol...LOL
I had an uncle like that as well, but he was on the other side of the law...but harmless.
My aunt Cookie (my dad's sister), who passed in 1963 of cancer was married to a rebel. She was a devout Christian, but somehow met, married, and produced two wonderful children (my cousins) with this man. I took my first (and last) motorcycle ride with Uncle Conner at about age 8. I guess you could say he was one of the first Harley riders. But he had a heart of gold.
He was never the same after my aunt passed. He got wilder, and passed due to hard living in the late 80s. But he did have a good heart.
Did you happen to work at Fenton?
I'm afraid to go there because of "backlash" if I ever got pulled over.
Cancer has claimed so many lives in my family, that holidays are becoming difficult... in 98 we lost my cousin, in 99 my mother went, in 2000, my dad.. we had a few years of respite until last year when my favorite uncle passed... I really don't see how atheists hang on, I couldn't do this without my Lord.
No, I didn't work outside the home much during the time I lived in Belpre. My newborn daughter wouldn't allow it! I tried to take a parttime job at Pizza Hut waitressing, and when I got home from my shift on my first day of work, my then hubby said he could not deal with my baby girl crying non-stop for her mommy. So that was the end of that!
She's now 25 and married, and still is a mommy's girl...:)
But I do remember Fenton Glass. Is the place still up and running?
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