When tomorrow starts without me And I’m not there to see; If the sun should rise and find your eyes, All filled with tears for me; I wish so much you wouldn’t cry, The way you did today, While thinking of many things, We didn’t get to say. I know how much you love me,…
Death is nothing at all – I have only slipped away into the next room. 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. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we shared together.…
Distance takes us far apart, And darkens my today. I have to keep remembering – You’re just a thought away. When the world is too confusing, Times are hard to bear. I pull your precious meaning, your bright spirit, from the air. If I sometimes drift into, A lonely state of mind, I gather up…
Lord that I may seek to console rather than to be consoled, To understand rather than to be understood; To love rather than to be loved. For it is in giving that we receive, In self forgetfulness that we find our true selves, In forgiving that we are raised up to the everlasting.
One night a man had a dream.He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonging to him, and the other to the Lord. When the last scene of his life flashed…
Softly in the morning, You heard a gentle call, You took the hand God offered you, And quietly left us all. The day you left us mother our hearts just broke in two The smallest part is still with us, And the biggest part with you For the rest of our lives we will miss…
O Ever Immaculate Virgin Mother of mercy, health of the sick , refuge of sinners, comfort of the afflicted, you know my wants, my troubles, my sufferings; deign to cast on me a look of pity. By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it privileged sanctuary, whence you dispense your…
Hold her O Jesus in thy arms And let her henceforth be A messenger of love between Our human hearts and thee When she suffered she told but few She did not deserve what she went through Tired and weary she made no fuss But tried so hard to stay with us How dearly we…
There comes a time for all of us When we must say good-bye But faith and hope and love and trust can never, never die. Although the curtain falls at last is that a cause to grieve? The future’s fairer than the past if only we believe. Trust in God’s eternal care so when the…
