Sharon passed peacefully this morning before sunrise. Tim and their son James were with her and showering her with love.
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!"
"Gone where?"
"Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear the load of living freight to her destined port.
Her dimished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" There are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: "Here she comes!"
And that is dying.
- Henry Van Dyke
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Thank you Lord for being merciful and calling Sharon to her new home of glory.
I feel blessed that I was able to visit this past Wednesday and show love to Sharon & Tim.
Thank you Kristina for this Blog.
I know all are grateful that Sharon is at peace. I am blessed for having known her & Tim.
Susan Butcher
Kristina,
Thanks for the blog... I am so sorry for your loss... but I know that you know how precious your time with Sharon was... a gift ... also, though saddened by her departure from this life, I am glad that she is in peace... by the way, I just love the poem... am embarrased that as an English teacher I am unfamiliar with this work and author... so I looked up Van Dyke and was impressed... it's a WONDERFUL vision of how we're never alone in death, and how death is the beginning of a new, immortal afterlife, one where we're welcomed with open arms. I look forward to feeling Sharon's presence once again b/c she sure was a special lady. XOXOXO The warmest of hugs, Krista
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