I could never bear the loss of my son Ari
HE IS THE JOY OF MY LIFE
Yes, I believe GOD is always with us
Yes, I know that my children are his, just given to me for a short time
STILL, reality is that, having seen the pain of
other mothers
who have lost their children
I KNOW I WOULD CRY EVERY SINGLE DAY
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Today, as we who still have our mothers,
and us mothers who still have our children
celebrate the love,
or even us who may have lost our mothers
after they lived a long and wonderful life
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PLEASE PRAY and UPLIFT those who do not
(if you are reading this and you have lost your child or mother,
please know I am sending up prayers for
ALL who may face this day with some manner of heart break)
THESE PEOPLE are MY FRIENDS and FAMILY
and I will cry today, thinking of them while I uplift them in silent prayer
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This lovely woman on the right is Mrs. Ann Buran.
I met Ann in 1997, when I took my very first teaching position at the Whittier Community School for the Arts, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ann played the baby grand piano that was in the foyer of this very special school for the Arts. She is an accomplished classical pianist. Ann and her husband David, gave much time and talent to Whittier and our students.
They volunteered in my classroom too, on a regular basis.
One day, a story splashed across the news one evening as I lay awake planning my lessons. A young woman had been shot to death in her own home. Her children were at home. Her son found her. That young boy also found his father, dead. Something went very, very wrong that day, when Ann and David's beloved daughter was killed by her husband and then he turned the gun on himself, with his two young boys at home at the time.
I was simply mortified for this family. Ann and David, already retired, took full custody of their grandchildren on that terrible day, and have raised them up to be what I am sure are two caring and wonderful young men.
My heart aches for Ann and David and the boys, who lost both of their parents
What a difficult day must it be for Ann and David, and the boys.
Please pray for peace for them.
Recall the school I just mentioned above, Whittier? This lovely young girl attended Whittier from the first day we opened, and she was well known because she had energy!
Her mother, Molly Remington,
was a fixture in our school, and one of the most dedicated mother's I have every seen in my 15 years in public education, perhaps the most dedicated.
Sofia Buxton-Anderson passed away suddenly on December 17, 2005 from an unexplained virus. She was just 13 years of age, and it was just a few days before Christmas.
Here is what Molly wrote about the moment she lost her only daughter, and her only child:
On the morning of her passing we were told by a Dr. that her condition was grave and we would only have a small amount of time before she would be gone. I could not believe it, just 12 hours after we had rushed her to the hospital and we were about to lose her. I went to the window crying and thinking NO this is a bad dream this is not happening. As I stood there I saw two Eagles soaring above. I remembered how I heard about Eagles being guides to take the souls back to the Creator, as I stood and watched the beauty of these big birds as they perched high on a tree. I suddenly realized that this was the time. I ran in to the ICU and they were doing chest compressions, she had gone into cardiac arrest. I ran back to the waiting room and told her Dad, Step-Mom and the friends that were there come quick this is it. We all got to her as they told us they had brought her back but it was only for a short time so we had time to say goodbye. We prayed and told her how much we love her, I held her feet as she passed away. I told her that the eagles were here for her and to be free and fly. That night I had been praying and hoping for her to make it, but what ever it was that she was fighting was to unknown and strong for even the best doctors to be able to beat. It was a bacterial infection in her abdomen that spread so fast. Still six weeks later they don't have any answers for us as to how she may have gotten it.
She had only been sick for a few days and it just seemed like stomach flu, until she fainted that Friday night, by Saturday morning at 8:10 she was gone.
I think of sweet Sofia a lot. I can see her smiling face running through the halls of our school. I cannot believe she is gone. My heart weeps for Molly.
Please lift Molly up today in your prayers.
She is devastated by the loss of Sofia.
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I don't have too many words about this request for prayers today
It hurts me to write about her
This is our beautiful cousin Lynzay Marie Legois
an only child, and an only and first grandchild
Please pray for Richard Legois, her father & Denice, her stepmother
Please pray for the entire Legois family:
Wayne (her grandfather), Rose (her grandmother), Shirley (RIP- her grandmother).
Please pray for Lynzay's birth mother.
She died in an instant, a tragic and horrible death.
There is little else to say. She was 14 years old. I was December 12, 2006, just a few weeks before Christmas, and almost an exact year from the day Molly lost Sofia.
She was this girl (as she said to my mother once):
"...the other girls at school tease me, a lot. They are mean to me...but when I get on the bus for school, and I see someone sitting alone, I go and I sit with them. At lunch, when I see a girl sitting alone, because no one will sit with her, I go and sit there. I make friends with kids that other kids won't talk to."
We lost a very special child of God that day.
Lynzay was in my wedding.
She threw the roses down the asile in front of me.
I miss her.
My heart breaks over and over again.
Please lift Lynzay's memory up today in your prayers.
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and there are more....
Please life up the entire Patterson Family, who lost Chrissie a year ago, just shortly after Mother's Day
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Please pray for mom Jennifer Williams, who lost 6 year old Will. Will is going to be Ian's middle name, in memory and honor of Will Williams.
Today, there are 147 million little souls,
GODS little children
WITHOUT MOTHERS
I weep for them to know the love that the mother's have for their children above, all gone too soon, and all beloved and cherished, even in death.
PLEASE SAY YOUR MOST FERVENT PRAYERS TODAY
FOR THE ORPHANED CHILDREN OF OUR WORLD
THAT THEY TOO, WILL KNOW THE
LOVE OF A MOTHER
SOMEDAY
SOON
Thank you so much and to all Mother's everywhere,
and especially to my own, who was told by many people to give me up to the
Catholic adoption agency, who sat there in the adoption agency office with me in her arms, and who then walked out and never looked back,
with me in her arms.
Happy Mother's Day
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