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Thank you Mother!

Mother, things were never the same after your death, as you left behind a space never to be filled. I love and miss you. I miss you for myself, my two sisters and brother, for the grandchildren that were so young at your death, the little ones born after your death, and now for their children.

I thank you for enduring the hard times as a child without a dad to help care for the family, and for your mother---my precious grandma. For mothering your five children, which included two sets of twins, the sadness of losing one of the twins, illnesses you went through without my being very considerate, for this I thank you. I thank you for all of the meals you prepared, and laundry you did in your early years without modern conveniences. I'll never forget the many hours of fun you gave to the family when you were well, how playful you and daddy could be. I hold dear in my heart and mind the memories of you bouncing through the house laughing, the many times I or my sisters had to roll and style your hair, because you couldn't. :-) Also the miles we traveled back and forth to church, singing as we went. The faithfulness you gave to Daddy, always being at his side as he preached and pastored churches. For all of this, and so very much more, I thank you.

A regret I have is that I did not spend more time telling you how much I loved and appreciated you. I only wish that before your death, I would have been the person spiritually that I am today. I could have been more capable of walking with you through the denial and then the acceptance of your pending death. You were so young leaving not only a husband, children and grandchildren, your mother and sisters and a brother; but a new house and new furnishings that you had enjoyed only six months before your diagnosis. This was so hard for me to accept. For two or three years I didn't attend another funeral---oh, I was there in body; but it was always your funeral that I sat through again and again. In His own time, God revealed to me that your new home could not be compared with any place here on earth. That in heaven you weren't missing anything, that it was I who was missing out. John 11:25 ". . he that believeth in me (Jesus), though he were dead, yet shall he live". "For, behold, I create new heavens. . . and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind". Isaiah 65:17

God saw you getting tired,
When a cure was not to be.
So he wrapped His arms around you,
And whispered, "Come to Me."

You didn't deserve what you
went through,
So he gave you rest.
God's garden must be beautiful,
He only picks the best.

And when I saw you sleeping,
So peaceful and free from pain
I could not wish you back to
suffer that again.

~author unknown~

~ Clara Travis Casteel ~

Mother was buried on the first day of May, 1963 living only three months after being diagnosed with cancer. She was 43 years old.

"Grief will not last, joy will return. For through our tears we clearly see that while we part but for a time, with Christ we'll spend eternity". -D. De Hann

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