cyberangel
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Post by cyberangel on Sept 6, 2014 12:38:02 GMT
Dear Friends,
Today would have been my Dear Dad's 70th Birthday. His name is Michael and I know he would appreciate if those of you that know me, would please spare a thought for my Dad today. We are going to his grave shortly to spend some time with him. I wrote this poem on his behalf a few days ago and I wanted to share it here with you, my friends. I think this poem may bring comfort to many who have lost a loved one. Love and Light Lorraine
Please Spare A Thought
Please spare a thought for me today I hear your thoughts and what you say, You think my time on earth was brief Don’t lengthen my death with constant grief,
My body died but I’m not through For now I live within all of you. And when my name pops in your head It’s my way of saying “I am not dead”
I am free from the Earthly bound But I am not gone I’m still around. And should you need some comfort too Just call on me and I’ll come to you,
Laugh with joy and shed no tear For life this side is nothing to fear. Heaven is close and so am I there is no need to say goodbye,
So PLEASE spare a thought for me today I hear your thoughts and what you say.
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sparklekaz
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Post by sparklekaz on Sept 6, 2014 15:01:57 GMT
Dear Lorraine,
That was beautiful. I really loved it, and yes it does help. May I have your permission to share it with my family in Australia. They have been sorting through some of my Auntie Peb's things and have been feeling very low today. I think this poem will help. In fact I know it will!!
Much love to you my friend. Thinking of your Dad Michael and you and your lovely family. Sending much love and prayers.
Love and light Kaz
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Post by donq on Sept 6, 2014 16:17:53 GMT
Hi Lorraine,
I would like to say something but I’m afraid I could not do that in English. Let someone does this for me instead. It’s from the movie Message in a Bottle (1999). Though it was about a husband and wife, but the message had a universal meaning. And it was great.
Dear Catherine, I’m sorry I haven’t talked to you in so long. I feel I’ve been lost… no bearings, no compass. I kept crashing into things, a little crazy, I guess. I’ve never been lost before. You were my true North. I could always steer for home when you were my home...I’m doing better now. The work helps. Most of all, you help me. You came into my dream last night with that smile… That always held me like a lover… rocked me like a child. All I remember from the dream…is a feeling of peace. I woke up with that feeling… and tried to keep it alive as long as I could... -Garrett's Letter to Catherine
To all the ships on the sea and to all the ports. To all my friends, my family and strangers. This is a message and a prayer. The message is that during my trips I found a great truth. I have already found what everybody is looking for… and few find: the person for whom I was born to love. Somebody like me, from Outer Banks county… from the mysterious Atlantic. A person rich in simple values… a person who learnt on his own. A port in which I am always at home. The wind, the problems… or a little death can’t destroy this house. I pray for all the people to know such love and to recover from it. If my prayer is listened to, there won’t be guilt any more, or regrets. Neither anger. Please, God. Amen! -Catherine's Letter to Garrett (found later in a bottle)
Another quotes from this movie:
“Because of you, I am hopeful that there will come a day when my sadness is replaced by something beautiful. Because of you, I have the strength to go on.”
“I don’t know if spirits do indeed roam the world, but even if they do, I will sense your presence everywhere. When I listen to the ocean, it will be your whispers; when I see a dazzling sunset, it will be your image in the sky. You are not gone forever, no matter who comes into my life. you are standing with God, alongside my soul, helping to guide me toward a future that I cannot predict.”
“This is not a good-bye, my darling, this is a thank-you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go. I love you”
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sparklekaz
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Post by sparklekaz on Sept 6, 2014 17:11:35 GMT
Dear Monty,
Just beautiful.. I especially loved "I don’t know if spirits do indeed roam the world, but even if they do, I will sense your presence everywhere. When I listen to the ocean, it will be your whispers; when I see a dazzling sunset, it will be your image in the sky. You are not gone forever, no matter who comes into my life. you are standing with God, alongside my soul, helping to guide me toward a future that I cannot predict.”
This is not a good-bye, my darling, this is a thank-you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever."
Thank you so much for sharing it.
Love and light Kaz
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cyberangel
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Post by cyberangel on Sept 6, 2014 22:26:13 GMT
Dear Karen,
Thank you so much for your lovely words and for thinking of us all today...greatly appreciated. You are more than welcome to share this poem with your family and with anyone you think may find some comfort in it. I have shared it here openly for anyone who would like to share it. Although I penned it, I really feel that my Dad did indeed come up with it and intuitively expressed it to me, and I am grateful. I just rearranged some of his words and set them into a poem.
Today was an ok day for us, not as sad as we thought it might be, but not jumping for joy either. All of us wished we still had dad with us in the flesh but each of us accepts that he is still around, either through our memories and/or in spirit.
I wish you could have known my Dad Karen, as he was such an inspiration to us. No matter how bad things were in life for him, he always managed to smile and look on the bright side. He was a man who never gave up on life either, despite his ill health, he always managed to make everyone smile and light up their lives in some way. He was liked by all who met him.
He loved music and was a great musician and could play many instruments, all self taught and played by ear, because he could not read music, but he could feel it. Music flowed through my dad like blood through his veins, even after his major stroke to both sides of his brain...when we played him some music...that was the most time he responded.
I know how happy he must be tonight to be amongst the heavenly choir and I hope the Angels sang him Happy Birthday from us. Dad now lives within my heart and always will and I will never forget the gifts he passed onto me, the love of music for one, and his creativity. I also hope one day to get to the stage of seeing the good in ALL people, just like he did.
Anyway I just wanted to say Thank you Karen my sweet kind friend, for thinking of us all today. Love and Light to you and I hope and pray things will get better for you and your family. It’s not easy to let the ones we love go, but the truth is they never really leave...they are just a thought away.
Dear Monty,
Thank you also for those beautiful words you shared and I echo what Karen felt with the last phrase of your post, which was the most poignant and meaningful to me. You have such a way of reaching out and knowing just how to touch one’s soul, this to me is very telling about a person. I think you are extremely empathic and sensitive to others, and this is a most beautiful quality in a person. I know you yourself have had your share of heartache and this is probably why you are so naturally loving and kind, as those who have often felt the most pain know how others feel.
You know exactly what to say and how to say it, whether you use your own words or borrow another’s to express yourself, you do it sincerely and so delicately that it never fails to reach another’s soul. THANK YOU. I firmly believe that although you, Karen, Gruntal, the others and I, will never met in person this side of life, but I can’t help but feel we are definitely from the same soul group. We found each other for a reason, to love and support each other at soul level.
I feel more myself when I speak to you and Karen than I do with most of my friends in everyday life. I feel I can open myself completely without fear of judgement or ridicule, to truly bare my soul and not be afraid, and that is a freedom not many can say they have in life. Most of my friends say I am unique, free spirited and always happy, but I’m not really...but here I am. So many wonderful souls come here seeking guidance and friendship, and they get it in abundance, and I just wanted to say, as one of those souls, Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I’ll be back soon my friends,
Love and Light
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sparklekaz
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Post by sparklekaz on Sept 6, 2014 23:01:44 GMT
I did not know your Dad Lorraine.. but in you I feel I have a sense of the kind of person he was. For are you not your Father's daughter! Do you not have his way of seeing the world. Of always looking for the bright side - the silver lining. Do you not have a way with you of making other's feel better. Of knowing just what to say and when to say it. So that they come away from you feeling better than they did before. No.. I've never met your Dad - but through you his legacy of love continues Lorraine.. through you, I know your Dad. Love and light my friend
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Post by donq on Sept 7, 2014 6:57:09 GMT
Dear Lorraine, You wrote: “I think you are extremely empathic and sensitive to others…I know you yourself have had your share of heartache…as those who have often felt the most pain know how others feel.”
If you were a man I might say, “Damn! That was so good!” I almost shed a bit tear if only my mindfulness didn’t come in time.” You wrote: “I firmly believe that although you, Karen, Gruntal, the others and I, will never met in person this side of life, but I can’t help but feel we are definitely from the same soul group. We found each other for a reason, to love and support each other at soul level.”Again, damn right! As Karen said somewhere before (but let me say it in my manly way here) “Why on earth have we come here from the very different parts of the world!?!” I always have a hard time to adjust myself about the difference of time zone. For example, sometimes I wondered where the heck everyone was. Then I realized later that my afternoon/evening time was just the morning there and everyone might still be in their beds. You are a (very) sensitive woman, Lorraine. But you always dare to share something that might make you feel vulnerable. You are so brave! What is the point of spiritual friends (forum, community etc.) if we don’t dare to share/show our weakness, right? And doesn’t it say, “You can become strongest in your weakest place”?
To repay your precious friendship, let me open myself to you, too. (I mean I always do that though sometimes I had to limit myself for some sensitive issues/reasons. Hahaha.) As you already knew that my life sucks. How could I trust anyone after what happened to me. But you, Karen and our friends here have changed my mind. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not that youngster/naive anymore. Nor am I a cunning old man, even I can see through (as Rabindranath Tagore, a great poet put it): “Some have smiles, sweet and simple, and some a sly twinkle in their eyes. Some have tears that well up in the daylight, and others tears that are hidden in the gloom” as I always could go along with them without any problems (Or at least I don't need to "open" myself to them, for their health sake. lol.) But that is not the case here. Here I’ve found the true friendships I have been searching for a very long time. There were some good novels that I could reread them again and again. But there were only a few that I read them more than 15-20 times in my life (and still will be able to read them some day). Those are Chinese martial arts novels. I started to read it when I was a kid and still read it from time to time all my life. I love their virtualities and moral principles (even I do know that it’s not true in the real life. And maybe it never will.) Let me give you an example: K., our hero was misunderstood by everyone (because of his enemies’ slanders). Some of his friends fought to death to regain his name. His friends told K.'s enemies that, “I will never believe K. would do something like that if I didn’t see it by myself. Hmm…even I saw it with my own eyes, I still don’t believe it! He must have some reasonable reasons doing that!” When one of K.’s friend was going to die after fighting, asked him, “You didn’t do that bad thing right? I knew you didn’t do it.” K. almost wept. He just realized that his friend fought to death even he still had a little bit doubt about those slanders. But he still trusted him and gave his own life for that trust! What a beautiful friendship, right? Let me end this rather long post by another damn good words from “Message in a Bottle” (I edited some romantic part of it.) “I’m writing to tell you that I’m on a journey toward that peace. And to tell you I’m sorry about so many things. I’m sorry I didn’t take better care of you…I’m sorry I didn’t try harder to find the words…to tell you what I was feeling..
“I’m sorry I ever fought with you. I’m sorry I didn’t apologize more. I was too proud. I’m sorry I didn’t bring you more compliments…” P.S. I hope I already tried enough to find the words to tell you what I was feeling, my friend.
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cyberangel
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Post by cyberangel on Sept 7, 2014 19:27:43 GMT
Dear Karen, Thank you and I feel very honoured and proud if you get a sense of my Dad through me, for I am only half the person he was (I am also the other half of my mother too Dear Monty, Thank you for your lovely reply and my dear friend you don't need words for me to know and feel your true friendship. I am also so glad that I can share with you both how special you both are to me, and I indeed class you both along with other dears friends here, my spiritual family
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Post by aceofcups on Sept 10, 2014 21:05:39 GMT
Thank you Lorraine for sharing your Dad's Poem..... it was touching.
peace aceofcups
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Post by hemantm on Oct 1, 2014 11:20:01 GMT
I love my dad too...I lost him in 2007. He was a super hero for me & 1 of the best dad in the world. I respect your feelings cyberangel & off course nice lines
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Post by Leon on Oct 2, 2014 11:40:25 GMT
Lovely poem Cyberangel, I liked the line that goes "Don’t lengthen my death with constant grief" that sums it all up. Just because someone has crossed over, it does not mean that we have to give up on our life, we just start afresh on another phase of our adventure on earth.
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