My grandma arranged the funeral for the next day. When the day approached we all piled into the car and drove to the funeral home. At the Funeral there was music playing. The service went on for about an hour and when it was over, we all said goodbye to my grandpa.…
During the service I felt a heavy emotion of grief that hit me like a semi-truck. I cried throughout the whole service until we all went to the wake at his house. At the wake there was a table of food and many relatives I hadn’t seen in quite a while. Though I remember being sad during the service, I also remembered that the wake was the complete opposite. Everyone was sharing their stories about my grandfather and even some of his friends from WWII were there giving us an insight into that part of his life.…
It had been almost a year and a half since my grandpa was diagnosed with lung cancer. My grandparents move to Arizona when I was seven. I missed them terribly! I spent summers with them in their old farm house, and learnt to swim in the gigantic pool. After they moved I seldom saw them.…
I had never been so far away from my family before, and I instantly missed my grandpa. I talked to him every other night about the Dodgers and Lakers. He gave me advice about school and even girls. One morning, I received a call from my dad, and I immediately knew something was up. He told me that my grandpa was diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer.…
This loss just hurt me so bad because we were so close. One day I really do not know why I just started writing about how the family was missing something and comparing it to a bunch of different things. Like an icecream sundae without a cherry, a car with flat tires, a dinner table with the head seat missing and many more. I guess it made me feel like these things although better with the item they can function and learn to function without them. I still think about my grandpa every day and think about how much I love him but knowing I’m always going to be missing a part of me is hard.…
“This is what I most admire about Father: no matter how bad things might get, he eventually will find the grace to compose himself. Some people find him overly stern and frightening, but that is only because he was gifted with such keen judgment and purity of heart. He has been singled out for a life of trail, as Jesus was. Being always the first to spot flaws and transgressions, it falls upon Father to deliver penance. Yet he is always ready to acknowledge the potential salvation that resides in a sinner’s heart.…
In his last day I read the sports page to him and even though he didn’t respond I filled him on the score from the Mariners game from the night before. Personally, I think watching someone die is the hardest thing to do and I had to witness that as a fifteen year old; I couldn’t even drive yet, I was still a kid. My grandfather’s death was gut wrenchingly hard not only for me but for my whole family but it changed me, and I feel it changed me for the better; I always had this plan that I would one day be working in a hospital and caring for people.…
Growing up, I knew that church was the way to go. My family were very satnified christians. My father is an pastor and my mother is an evangelist. I remember waking up on Sunday mornings to gospel playing throughout the house and my pops pacing back and forth wondering which suit and tie to wear that day. I never knew God for myself at that time.…
About two decades ago, you held me in a half-nelson and dragged me to your home to teach me some manners. I had wanted blue suede shoes so badly that I had tried to snatch your purse. You told me to never steal again, and gave me ten dollars to buy the shoes I wanted so badly. I should have contacted you sooner, because I needed to give you a proper thank you.…
Welcome to Douglas House of Love! Since you dropped by, you may want to know a little more about me... I'm twenty four, a mom of one princess, and a wife to an amazing man. My little family and I reside in Connecticut.…
Kelsey Palmer Anderson Astronomy October 31, 2014 "Even today, there are moments when what I do seems to me like an improbable, if unusually pleasant dream: to be involved in the exploration of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn; to try to duplicate the steps that led to the origin of life on an Earth very different from the one we know; to land instruments on Mars to search there for life; and perhaps to be engaged in a serious effort to communicate with other intelligent beings, if such there be, out there in the dark of the night sky", I said this in 1973, and it held up till the day I died. I was born on November 9th in 1934. If I could describe myself back then, I'd say I was a childhood science fiction addict. It was when…
With what little wisdom and perspective I have at twenty-one years of age, one thing about which I am certain is the harshness and deep-felt pain of the hole left behind when a loved one dies. If I know nothing else to be true, it is the ache and sometimes-unbearable sadness my family and I are experiencing at the loss of our beloved wife, mother, and grandmother. But just as much as that sorrow is real, so, too, is the welcome relief of laughter and love we exchange as we remember the wonderful, funny life of our very dear Patty. It is only with fond remembrance and a good laugh that we are able to keep our heads when dealing with the grief of losing my Grandma, and she has given us an abundance of anecdotes and stories with which we can chuckle and attempt to patch the huge hole that settled in our hearts.…
Grief has been both my downfall and my saving grace. No one knows how to grieve properly or correctly, but the one thing I learned from grieving at a very young age, is that grief is love; specifically, unconditional love. This unconditional love towards someone (or in my case, many people) pours out as a sign of loneliness and yearning just to hold them and hug them one final time. I understand that losing people is a part of life and can’t be avoided, but growing up, I thought my world had turned upside down when I lost the two most important people to me. Three weeks prior to my tenth birthday, my Nana passed away from Alzheimer’s Disease.…
When my Granddad passed away I was shocked, at first I couldn 't believe that he had actually died. This was the first time that someone so close to me has passed away. I knew he was ill but I had just assumed that this day would never come. I used to think that my grandparents would be around forever but this just made me realise that it doesn 't work out like that.…
The thought that he could be gone and so soon was unimaginable. “Claire honey, I don’t know if you will understand this but your Grandpa Zellers passed away today. He was in very bad accident up on the farm.” My mother went on to explain that my Grandfather was crushed by the ATV rolling on top of him. He was unable to escape or even call for help.…