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When You Lose Someone You Love (The Journeys) [Hardcover]

41ZEBWG5H4L._BO2204203200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-clickTopRight35-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_When You Lose Someone You Love is a very thoughtful and lovely book to revisit again and again as we live through sorrow and anger and loss. We don't know how we can carry on. This gentle book talks about the feelings of sadness and gives support and strength as you journey through this time of grief. It will be a source of comfort as you very quietly, very gradually begin to heal.

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Funeral Wreaths

02June2006
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Judy Gagnon

His “Dying Time”

As my life begins to ebb away
I feel so all alone
No one can walk this path for me
I must make it on my own
Although I can share the journey
it’s through my eyes you see
the wonder that surrounds me now
my spirituality

I wish that I could show you
all the things I see revealed
But until our time to leave this earth
Some things are kept concealed

I am being shown the way
from this life to the next
there’s so much to take in all at once
for you, you’d be perplexed.

For you dwell within the physical
it’s where you comprehend
While I float between two worlds
of which there is no end.

I understand so well your fear
I wish that you could see
that what I see beyond this life…
is life eternally.

As my time to leave grows nearer
I will try to let you know
each step I’m on along this path
before I have to go.

I’m not afraid, as you can see
I’ve traveled down the path
of what they call my “dying time”
and seen the aftermath.

I think our “dying time”
is our time to prepare
ourselves and those around us
for the end that is so near.

It’s a time of readjustments
a time of letting go
somehow life has prepared us
somehow these things we know.

My mind now seems to be
more concentrated “there”
No longer do I long for life
as I knew it here.

I’m ready now to say good-bye
and I know how you will grieve
but please have faith…we’ll meet again
this you must believe.

I shared my journey with you
I’m so glad that you were here
And as we’ve been our whole life through…
please trust that I’ll be near.

When that day or night comes to you
I will help you comprehend
remember you won’t be alone
I will be there till the end.

About the author: Visit Judy’s web site at www.angelfire.com/nh/darkwolf

Copyright © 2001 by Judy Gagnon. All rights reserved.

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