Precious people

[Leslie]

I'm gong to emote a little here.

People,
I hope you each know that you are precious.

I wish I had told my friend who died that. I pray he knows how much he has meant to me. I wish I had taken better care of him. I wish a lot of things, like that he was still here so I could be good to him more.

I've been blessed by each of you, and encouraged to see the way you support each other, with different gifts.

I hope you each take care of yourselves, precious people.
Leslie

[Theodora]

Know that YOU are precious too.

Thanks for your post---it blessed me tonight.

Grace and peace to you and yours this Christmastide. You will be in my thoughts and in my prayers.

In His love--

Theodora

P.S. My sincere condolences to you on the loss of your friend. I'll be keeping that situation in prayer as well. Sorry not to have responded to that news earlier. My mother died on Christmas Day in 1995---hard to believe it's 10 years ago now! At times, it still seems quite fresh. In any case...a final gift from her, calling from her friends' house where she was spending Christmas (having been taken there from the nursing home) was that she COULD finally verbalize "I love you." It will be a life-long puzzle to me to know why she was unable to do that for much of my life.

Good for you for using your friend's death as an impetus for some changes you'd like to see in your life. Thanks again for your post!!! ((((Leslie)))) You've blessed me too. Thank you. :D

I'm gong to emote a little here.

People,
I hope you each know that you are precious.

I wish I had told my friend who died that. I pray he knows how much he has meant to me. I wish I had taken better care of him. I wish a lot of things, like that he was still here so I could be good to him more.

I've been blessed by each of you, and encouraged to see the way you support each other, with different gifts.

I hope you each take care of yourselves, precious people.
Leslie

[mstar]

You are a very precious person too, Leslie. Bless you and have a good Christmas.

Love & prayers:)

[Jerry]

Merry Christmas Leslie

[Carmen]

You are precious too, Leslie! I agree, unfortunately we notice how precious some were to us when they are gone. My condolances for the loss of your friend. The people here mean a lot to me too. We as believers, as God's children are all very precious to Him. We should treasure each other all the more because of it. That is why I can wish you a Merry Christmas. :)

[Janice]

Merry Christmas precious Lesilie. :)

[Kerrin]

Know that YOU are precious too.

Thanks for your post---it blessed me tonight.

Grace and peace to you and yours this Christmastide. You will be in my thoughts and in my prayers.

In His love--

Theodora

P.S. My sincere condolences to you on the loss of your friend. I'll be keeping that situation in prayer as well. Sorry not to have responded to that news earlier. My mother died on Christmas Day in 1995---hard to believe it's 10 years ago now! At times, it still seems quite fresh. In any case...a final gift from her, calling from her friends' house where she was spending Christmas (having been taken there from the nursing home) was that she COULD finally verbalize "I love you." It will be a life-long puzzle to me to know why she was unable to do that for much of my life.

Good for you for using your friend's death as an impetus for some changes you'd like to see in your life. Thanks again for your post!!! ((((Leslie)))) You've blessed me too. Thank you. :D

(((((((((Leslie))))))))
And to you too!
I also gat a little melancholic this tiem of year, it is exactly 10 years since my brother died at age 25 of an AID's related illness.
I miss him so much, an am glad God granted me the gift of being with him as he slipped away into the arms of Christ.

It makes it all the more difficult to understand how my mother can be so cruel, having already lost one child, she seems content to "forget" me, and enjoy my sister alone and seperate from me.:(
((((((((Theodora)))))))), I'm glad your mother at least left this world allowing you to know you were loved despite her not showing it; and I do NOT mean to minimise the pain or the doubt about why that would be....:confused:

I think , if My memory serves me correct, my dad has only said "I Love you" twice, and both times were after I had said it to him, so it 'felt' somewhat of a 'kneejerk' response!:o
Many Blessings to each of YOU who are a blessing to ,me also.
Heaven will be so much fun.........when we all finally meet, I mean!
Love
Kerrin;)

[Reg]

Yes Leslie, the right word is precious.

Reading some of the poignant profound words here often brings a tear to my eye.

Wish I could share a print someone gave me called "The Chisel". That one picture says sooooo much. I feel it would say even more to us.

[Reg]

Yes Leslie, the right word is precious.

Reading some of the poignant profound words here often brings a tear to my eye.

Wish I could share a print someone gave me called "The Chisel". That one picture says sooooo much. I feel it would say even more to us.
P.S. If someone wants to see what it looks like I can email it to them.

[Willow]

Thanks Leslie!!!! Warm fuzzies all over the place here!!! :p

[Leslie]

Dear Theodora, I'm so sorry to learn that your mother died, and right on Christmas Day! I'm sure the memories and feelings remain close. I hope her words at the end are a comfort. Do you think some of her stoicism was generational? I find that many from an older era are not that expressive. With the painful reminder that that day is, I hope that your Christmas celebrations are able to be full and joyous. My brother shared something poignant regarding our friend's passing, namely that Jesus will make all things right when He comes in His Kingdom. Things are wrong. They will be made right. Thank you for your condolences.

And Dear Kerrin, I'm so sorry to hear about your brother's passing. How meaningful that you coud be there for him. How good that he felt loved by you. Sounds like he'd be my age. I'm very sorry to hear about your mother's partiality. How wrong. I hope you know that that is about her. Not you. It always is. Do you think your dad is just stoic and nonexpressive? That's one good thing about the current age; people seem more able to show their feelings today than in generations past. I know some people who, though being fine people, do not feel comfortable with expressing feelings. Since God made us for close relationships, I've learned to look on them with some degree of pity for the lack that they have in their lives that they don't know how to fill. The same thing with touch. It's healing and does so many good things for your body and soul (decreases stress hormones, releases toxins, etc), so the people who didn't grow up with touch are missing out and may not even know it. What do you think? (I say this and in no way endorse indiscriminant touching, of course.) Kerrin, did I follow you correctly that your dad is alive? Thank you for your kind words.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Bless you, Leslie