Posted on 12/20/2019 5:11:36 PM PST by infool7
This Christmas has been extraordinarily difficult for people that have lost...
valuable items, money, friends, homes, cars, loved ones, beloved pets...
If you have lost something recently please let us know. You don't have to say what it is if you don't want to but we will all be praying for your recovery and healing from your loss no matter how big or small.
The most important thing is that we do not lose hope especially as we contemplate the joy of Christmas and our Lord's promise of Salvation.
It’s a very big mistake on her part. My goodness, given a third of a business and throws it away, more importantly throws your affection for her away. She will regret this greatly someday, sooner rather than later.
Same with me, the love I had for her was like she was my own daughter. ( I have no children.) Slowly as she got older I sensed how very unimportant I am to her. There is no doubt of that now.
I burst into tears again this morning talking to my husband about it. I guess it takes more than a couple days to mourn this realization.
She will not be at the family Christmas , which is why I asked to see them when she was at my brothers this week. Well now I don’t even want to see her. Oh gee if I get invited to my great nephew’s second birthday party next year, I might just not be able to make it. So sorry, I’m busy.
I am going to enjoy Christmas anyway. Will be feeling better I’m sure.
Amen. It is hard to be alone at Christmas. Heartfelt prayers that the love of God will manifest.
So sorry. I have found that when I feel these things to pray for others experiencing these things, and my peace returns. We are not alone. Prayers for you and all on this thread.
I have read up to post 184. So much need for prayer and you all have opened your hearts to share and ask. This thread is a wonderful idea. We have our own age and health related challenges. Love really is the answer. That and faith and forgiveness. Even if relationships end and the person hurting us does not ask for forgiveness we should forgive them in our hearts and move on without them. I will be praying for all these requests.
Thank you. All Glory to God.
I did do quite a bit of cussing right after her cold refusal to fit me into her fabulous life.Now I no longer want her in mine. I’m sure she won’t notice or care. I won’t be around for her to find out she gets nothing when I go to Heaven. Oooppps! Almost had it! ( I love that fishing meme about Hillary almost being elected).
Prayers for them, too.
My condolences on losing your father. Prayers for your mother and the rest of the family, and you, too.
Merry Christmas to you, too. :-)
I’m sorry you had such a rotten childhood. :-( Perhaps he thought in his mind he was “toughening” you kids up not to be slackers or some such. But that shouldn’t come at the expense of not being able to enjoy your childhood.
I’ve had similar with some relatives. My grandmother didn’t make it to 48 (cancer), she died 17 years before I was born. Her husband, my grandfather, had two relatively young wives die on him (1st wife, probably around 30, also of cancer, then his 2nd, my grandmother). He also died of cancer, though nearly made it to 80. He passed away around Christmas in Mexico City back in 1976 (I was with him, but a mere toddler).
My other grandfather died less than 4 years after my other one. He got up one morning to do his usual walk from his house to the Dunkin’ Doughnuts a few blocks away. Came back, went to take a nap on the couch, never woke up. 73. Like my one grandfather with his 2nd wife, my other grandmother outlived her spouse by about 20 years and made it to about 91. Alzheimer’s.
OK, but I’m not going to wear a pretty pink ribbon in my hair.
Of course, I just realized you may be just a smidgen older than I am. Your folks are around my folks age (80 and 79). :-P
I am 57. Mother is 80, dad is almost 85. My uncle who died of cancer was only 10 years my senior, and was the coolest uncle ever. He was so close to my age he seemed more like a cousin.
Doctors didn’t find the cancer until it was almost stage 4. He barely had any gray hair and was still in great shape when diagnosed. His decline was the scariest death I’ve witnessed.
My other relatives that died suddenly in a few moments, their deaths were very shocking to us surviving relatives , but at least they did not suffer.
I had a dear friend go though breast cancer diagnosis this year. I prayed so hard for her, and my prayers were answered. She does not even need chemo or radiation and she was astonished that the surgery was not painful. All things I prayed about. I am so grateful.
Oh thanks for the post about my work-a-holic father. Just saw it.
I feel bad for my mother who just keeps agreeing to keep their business going every year. People say my father won’t ever quit, and will die working. If it was just him working that’s fine, but in their business my mother’s work is essential, so she just keeps on going along with it.
She’s a smart woman, so I guess she will quit when she wants to or if he becomes disabled or does die on the job.
My mother says after he is gone she is getting AC and satellite TV service.
The summers here are hot and humid and she has no AC.
: /
Have a good evening
Ah, you’re my half-sister’s age. I’m a dozen years younger than you. I have little contact with her (doesn’t help radically different politics, you can guess, and being far, far away on a different coast), haven’t seen her in over 28 years. The family is all spread out, so rarely see any of them. Since 3 of the 4 grandparents of mine were gone by the time I was 6, I was left with one who was... not exactly the ideal.
My aunt (mother’s twin) was diagnosed with Parkinson’s when she was just in her 30s and lived with it for probably more than half her life. Finally succumbed in this decade, though she already had dementia by then (numerous surgeries had made it so that she at least didn’t have the pain from the disease, though she lost her ability to speak). Still, that was about as slow a death as you could get. I didn’t see her in her declining years because of my own health problems that didn’t permit me to travel, so I last recalled her when she was still functioning. It’s strange, I dream of her with relative frequency (for no particular reason) and she still looks like she did in her 50s (she’d be 79 now) and I always walk up to her and say, “Uh, aren’t you dead ?” Like I said, it’s strange. =8-0>
I’m sorry your mother has to put up with that business. :-( I’m in TN, so living without A/C would be insane. Maybe you could encourage her to come and see you more often and get away ?
Prayers up for all in need on your Christmas thread...
This Christmas season just got a little harder for our family too and I just posted a new prayer request here for our grandson - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3802765/posts
I have had at least one dream of a deceased relative. A few days after my favorite grampa died , I dreamed he called me on the telephone , from Heaven! This was about 25 years ago. Was a good dream. Was a great grampa.
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