Thursday, February 22, 2018
Linda - just a note to express my sincere condolences on the loss of your mom. She was a great lady and a wonderful mom! I found this passage when I lost my mom five years ago...I read it every now and then still. It gives me peace....I hope it does you as well. Sending you prayers for peace and all my love dear friend.....
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way you always used to. Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without effort, no trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because i am out of sight? I am waiting for you, somewhere very near. Just around the corner. All is well.”
Henry Scott Holland 1847 - 1918 / Canon of St Paul’s, London
