Among life’s memories …along the way … lots of friends …here …today
Doing your job …helping others …tragedy struck …your kindness …smothered
Candles lit … show care …friends ‘n family … from everywhere
Hug ’n kisses … closeness …love …smiles ‘n tears …toward heaven above
Please Dear Lord …quiet hearts today …peace …calmness …we pray
Get us through … every night …bring us swiftly …to days light
Where hearts …again …embrace …all that’s good …in this place
Bad memories …replace with …memories of Gail …sadness erased
Knowing loved ones …safe with you …makes life easier …no sad adieu!
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes R.N./ December 3, 2013
Usual visit with Mother on monday, but I needed to leave to attend this Candlelight Vigil for those in the shooting (November 26, 2013) at GoodShepherd Hospital in Longview, Texas. Mother was asking so many questions, and I had no answers. I did not know Gail, but friends did. She died doing what all nurses do everyday, caring for others. We get paid to help others, go figure! So I looked at her and said, Mother, I’m going to a funeral, a nurse died and I need to be there, she said …GO! Sometimes I look at her and want to share my feelings, but she isn’t there to do that anymore. But when she looked at me and said GO, I couldn’t stop the tears and I hugged her, she understood my heart at that moment.
Comments on: "For Gail Sandidge R.N. (No Sad Adieu)" (5)
W–O–W. What a moment: “GO.”
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It was heartfelt!
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🙂
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My ex husband passed away on Monday morn..no longer does he suffer the agonies of Alzheimers …a sad time but one of glad release…love to you and Mom xxx
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My prayers are with you and yours. A glad release for sure. We travel on this soil once, and it’s always sad when someone is no more. I believe Jesus cradles them in his arms.
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