They are not there, they did not die.

Too often people say that they ARE a body and that they HAVE a soul. I believe that we ARE a soul and that we HAVE a body. You only really know someone by understanding 'who' they are and by loving them for the person they are and not what they look like. We communicate our soul by using our body...eg feelings, actions, emotions, language etc. Without a body it may seem that a person no longer exists or it may feel as though the world is empty without them...

I believe that even though we may have lost them physically, their soul is still alive. They have become our motivation, our will power, our strength, our courage, our determination, our love of life....they help us to become everything we struggled to be before.

The love, the smiles, the tears, the laughs, the fights....all the memories are now a part of us. They are all the things that make us so incredibly happy and somehow at the same time so sad and torn up inside. Just remember that you may be missing somebody...but you have gained a forever angel.

"Do not stand at my grave and weep;

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand westerly winds that blow.

I am the diamond glints on surf and snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn swell and rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet gulls in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Please do not stand at my coffin and cry;

I am not there, I did not die."


Remember, those whose lives you have touched and whose have touched yours are always a part of you....even if the encounters were less than you would have wished. It is the content of the encounter that is more important than the form ♥
Let the memories of our loved ones live on forever xx