Saturday, May 5, 2012

To Those Who Mourned With Us



Time passes slow to those who grieve.

In behalf of our extended family, I express my heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all who stood by us in our time of grief for the passing of our beloved mother, Mama Annie. I never understood the essence of funeral wake until we had to hold one for Mama.  To the family, it allowed us time to reflect, digest, and soak up the grim reality of such an enormous loss, and adjust to a life of significant void.

Were it not for this tradition, which ushered in friends to share our grief, to extend their sympathies, to mourn with us, we would have had to contend with the harrowing sorrows of Mama’s sudden passing by ourselves. And it would have been very, very, very, difficult.

For the comfort that your presence have brought us, I, once again, thank you, and may this thought of gratitude respond as well to those who may be battling their own life’s grief and sorrow.

God bless you. 

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