Posted on 09/23/2003 6:48:59 PM PDT by carlo3b
Thank you my dear friend..
I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be.
The baby grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was two years old, and he ran all around the house. He pulled all the books off the shelves. He pulled all the food out of the refrigerator and he took his mother's watch and flushed it down the toilet. Sometimes his mother would say, "This kid is driving me CRAZY!"
But at night time, when that two-year-old was quiet, she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of his bed; and if he was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him she sang:
I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be.
The little boy grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. he grew until he was nine years old. And he never wanted to come in for dinner, he never wanted to take a bath, and when grandma visited he always said bad words. Sometimes his mother wanted to sell him to the zoo!
But at night time, when he was asleep, the mother quietly opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of the bed. If he was really asleep, she picked up that nine-year-old boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him she sang:
I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be.
The boy grew. he grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a teenager. He had strange friends and he wore strange clothes and he listened to strange music. Sometimes the mother felt like she was in a zoo!
But at night time, when that teenager was asleep, the mother opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of the bed. If he was really asleep she picked up that great big boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him she sang:
I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be.
That teenager grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a grown-up man. He left home and got a house across town.
But sometimes on dark nights the mother got into her car and drove across town. If all the lights in her son's house were out, she opened his bedroom window, crawled across the floor, and looked up over the side of his bed. If that great big man was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him she sang:
I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be.
Well, that mother, she got older. She got older and older and older. One day she called up her son and said, "You better come see because I'm very old and sick." So her son came to see her. When he came in the door she tried to sing the song. She sang:
I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always....
But she couldn't finish because she was too old and sick.
The son went to his mother. He picked her up and rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And he sang this song:
I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
My Mommy you'll be.
When the son came home that night, he stood for a long time at the top of the stairs. Then he went into the room where his very new baby daughter was sleeping.
He picked her up in his arms and very slowly rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while he rocked her he sang:
I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be.
by Robert Munsch
Hope all is well with you and yours this morning..
The sadness of a lost love is crushing, and the hurt is made all the more painful because we are innocent in it's cause.
We stand helpless and alone searching for reasons, placing blame, cursing fate, and finally and ultimately left to find the meaning for it all in our grieving.. a way to deal with the truth .. You are only guilty of caring too much...
Yet, we know that as hard as it may seem, someday sooner or later.. with prayer and patience.. wisdom and peace will come to us all. .. We know down deep, with the passage of time, and with the help of good friends, close family ties, love and prayers.. all will rest, everything will be peaceful at last... Believe
We all know that someday.. our happy memories of better times will replace the pain, and the empty spaces deep in our heart will again be filled with love..... Have faith my dear friends.. faith in yourself, and in your God.. Faith...
Only a warm and open heart can recieve love.. I have the recipes for the good stuffings.. :o)
What a touching and beautiful thread this is.....
I know this book where these verses are from (I love you Forever) - I bought it for my son when he was just a baby and we used to read it all the time and we even made up a tune for the words so we could sing the wonderful words: As Long as I'm living my baby you'll be.... It follows a boys life through his mother's loving eyes till he's a grown man and she is old and feeble.
I still have it somewhere, I think I'll look for it today and remind him of about it (he's a teen now)
Whatever prompted this thread, I hope you are hanging in there and know we all know the pain of loss and it's something we share with you.
I'm saving this thread with all these wonderful sentiments too as we have someone gravely ill in our family and we may need reminding of how to cope with the pain soon enough.
.. . It is so true, grieving is the remedy for healing for a broken heart, no matter how it happened. Painful loss comes in many forms, lost love isn't any different no matter what it is that has gone. I can't help but think of the look in a child's eyes when they realize their house will be a home no more, because of a failing marriage.. helpless, lonely, devastated.. Or as in your friend's case the loss of their best friend.. whether it has a wagging tail, or smiling face.. sadness knows no limits.
Howie, my dear talented friend, I am your biggest fan.. God has given you a blessing in your artistic ability, but more so in your insight into any subject matter.
It is your keen eye for the deeper meaning that your brush conveys on canvas.. Thank God for both, your keen eye and your hand with brush, and for your willingness to share it with all of us fortunate Freepers. But most of all your friendship.. It is indeed an honor to know you.. Thank you
This is such an endearing thought from a thoughtful woman.. Thank you
Today it hurts the worst it will ever hurt. Tomorrow, it won't hurt so bad.
Go to sleep, and tomorrow will be a better day.
I love you. Not sure why but maybe it's because I know that you are never ashamed to say "I love you." Or maybe it's because you are a giver.
One more secret - some people are givers and some people are takers. Sometimes takers take advantage of givers. But, you know what? So what! Givers are better people.
Your friend's secret is now the available to all of your wonderful FReeper FRiends on this, the greatest website in this universe. I can only thank you for being here to bring it to us..
It's never hard to say, I LOVE YOU.. when it's from your heart. :)
These are helpful at those special times.. I'm so happy it arrived when you could use them.. HUG
We will all do better to remember these fine words.. Thank you..
True, but it doesn't have to be alone.. Here we are.. :)
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
- unknown
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Thank You. I would very much like to hear anything you would like to share.
ITMT...God is with your every step of this ever serious journey.
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