From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #200 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Wednesday, July 13 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 200 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- thinking of you ["Anne Sandstrom" ] RE: Prayer ["Sherelle Smith" ] Prayer ["Kate Bennett" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:57:26 -0500 From: "Anne Sandstrom" Subject: thinking of you Dearest Michael, I will indeed keep your brother, you, and your family in my thoughts. How horrible that he suffered so. As dreadful as it is to die young, I think it's many times worse to see it coming from a long way away. I echo your thoughts on smoking. I know it's extremely difficult to stop. But I encourage anyone who's even vaguely considering quitting to give it another try. I'm sure you made the right decision, hard as it was, not to travel. I flew home, through Cincinnati the day the first big tropical storm came through there. It was absolute chaos, with everyone running (including us) to catch flights. And, I'll have to give the two tunes you mentioned a listen. lots of love, Anne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:51:14 +0000 From: "Sherelle Smith" Subject: RE: Prayer Oh Paz! Thank you for sharing this! Even now after so many years, this comforts me. Even with your loss, you comfort others. Thank you. I know it was hard for you to stay home but you did the right thing. I know your brother is proud of you. I just want you to know that as the days and weeks start going by, I will be here for you as will all of your JMDL family. We've gotten each other through a lot of tough times and we're not stopping now! We love you so much! Sherelle Paz wrote: BTW Here is the prayer that was read by the priest to close my brothers service. I think it says a lot. My sister La just sent it to me and I thought I would share it with you as we have all had losses. Love Paz TO MY BELOVED FAMILY AND FRIENDS: "Death is nothing at all. I've only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used to. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no false air of solemnity or sorrow, laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word it always was. Let it be spoken without effect, without a ghost of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever was. There is absolutely unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well...." From a 19th Century Epistle written by an English parson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:56:16 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Prayer Very nice. Thank you for sharing this Paz. This parson expresses so beautifully my experience with my mom who passed away... it seems like only yesterday but it has been 8 years now. I can't imagine the sorrow of loosing a sibling or god forbid a child. But this prayer is true in my opinion & a good reminder to speak & laugh & listen (don't forget the listening... sometimes we pray so hard we forget to listen!) again with my mom. When I really miss her she is right here. The veil between worlds is so thin really. >TO MY BELOVED FAMILY AND FRIENDS: "Death is nothing at all. I've only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used to. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no false air of solemnity or sorrow, laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word it always was. Let it be spoken without effect, without a ghost of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever was. There is absolutely unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well...." From a 19th Century Epistle written by an English parson< ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #200 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)