My Father passed away today...
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In Time of Sorrow...
May you see God's light on the path ahead When the road you walk is dark. May you always hear, Even in your hour of sorrow, The gentle singing of the lark. When times are hard may hardness Never turn your heart to stone, May you always remember when the shadows fall—You do not walk alone.
May you see God's light on the path ahead When the road you walk is dark. May you always hear, Even in your hour of sorrow, The gentle singing of the lark. When times are hard may hardness Never turn your heart to stone, May you always remember when the shadows fall—You do not walk alone.
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My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's a couple years ago... I've given a great deal of thought to what it will be like when he's gone... And it breaks my heart.
Was your father a man of faith? Do you yourself have faith in anything beyond our naturalistic reality?
...and you certainly have my condolences as well, brother.
Was your father a man of faith? Do you yourself have faith in anything beyond our naturalistic reality?
...and you certainly have my condolences as well, brother.
Loss is strange, even a few years after my grandparents all passed in a one year time frame (my fathers dad dying the same day as my grandmother a year earlier and my mothers parents both dying between that time) it is hard to really accept it. I mean you know they are gone, and a set of them I hadn't seen in years because they lived in another country, but when they where alive it was a feeling of I could visit them. Now that isn't possible and a little hard to come to terms with that.
Condolences.
Condolences.
Sorry for your loss dude! Hope that you can relish in the good memories you have of your father. I'm not very close to my father at all, and we live less than 10 minutes from one another, but I can't imagine what the feeling will be like when he passes. Again, sorry for your loss.
I had a similar relationship with my dad. My parents divorced when I was a kid and we probably saw him a couple of times over a 15 year period. Reconnected a little bit with him as an adult when my sister asked him to her wedding but then kind of lost touch again. The weirdest thing was being at his funeral and hearing his step son talk about what a great father he was when his own natural kids hardly knew him. Still, was weird because you are sad and angry at the same time. But sorry for your loss, I try to concentrate on some of the good memories I have on him, wish things had been different though.
I had a strange little coincidence happen after posting about my dad in this thread. When I was filling up my car later, I heard, over the gas station speakers, a song I strongly associate with some good times I had with my dad, back when I was a kid. I hadn't heard the song in about 20 years. It was one of those coincidences that felt a little too coincidental, if you know what I mean.
It reminded me that for all the distance and arguments, there was still a lot of good my dad did me.
It reminded me that for all the distance and arguments, there was still a lot of good my dad did me.
No, it was "Radar Love," an old Golden Earing (?) song. It was playing on a jukebox in an arcade in a campground a long, long time ago. My father, normally a pretty reserved and old-fashioned fellow, really liked that song for some reason, which made me and my siblings smile. It was one of those moments we connected. Camping was always a good time for us, too. So it's a stupid song, but it reminds me of all that.
It's kind of weird, the things that will remind you of someone, after they are gone.
I strongly believe that loved ones send us messages. This is a true story, my husband and I host our families 4th of July picnic every year at a local state park. My father-in-law died 20 years ago. About four years ago my husband had a very vivid dream that he and I were at the park setting up for the family cookout. We always arrived earlier than everyone and then walked around the park a bit waiting for them to arrive. So in this dream it was a rainy day and he dreamed that we were walking around the park and in the bushes he saw a baseball bat. He picked up the baseball bat and it had the initials "RW" on it. That's his father's initials. Well a couple of years after he had that dream we were at the park setting up on a rainy day. After we finished we started to take our walk around the park and he saw in the bushes a baseball bat, and he was pretty shocked when he picked it up and it had his dad's initials on it. So yeah, I think our loved ones send us messages from time to time!
I do, too. I've had too many weird things happen to believe it's all just random coincidence.
That was a good story, thanks.
