Rosemary - In Memorium

 

                                            ROSEMARY

                                      16th September 1974 -
                                        11th August 2006

This posting is in loving memory of a very special person, Rosemary G.  -  the beloved daughter of our friends and neighbours, Jackie and Ron. 

Rosemary was not as other people, she had very special needs. Jackie and Ron devotedly cared for her all her life. Although she was never able to attend school, obtain employment or do any of the things we all take for granted, Rosemary managed to touch the lives of everyone that knew her, which is a rare gift and she was deeply loved, even the nurses who tended to her in the last few days of her life, loved her.

She passed peacefully into the arms of our Lord at 3.50 a.m. on Friday morning.

 

Welcome home, dear soul, welcome home,

To the place God wants you to be,

Prepared for you  a long time ago,

Your place for eternity.

 

Down through the years  God watched you

He claimed you before you were born,

You were moulded, guided and taught

Through His love you grew and were formed.

 

He gave you a good life on earth

And saw that your needs were met

He gave you fair shares of sadness and mirth

And gave up His Son for your debt.

 

God counted each hair on your precious head

Ane he planned in advance all your years,

He knew each day what lay ahead

And He was aware of your prayers and tears.

 

Though you've left your loved ones behind

It is just in a physical way

And now you'll be closer to them

In a more wonderful, spiritual way.

 

A banquet's been spread in your honour

God is the Heavenly Host,

The guests are those gone before you

That on earth you had missed the most.

 

Welcome home, dear soul, welcome home,

Tell your family and friends not to grieve,

You're welcomed now at your Father's throne,

Totally whole and pain free.

 

    Copyright Virginia Ellis.

 

 

My lovely friends and readers, I ask you to offer a prayer up for dear Rosemary and also to pray for Jackie and Ron and their other daughters in their time of grief and loss.

 

Jackie knows that those of you in the prayer group have been offering up prayers for her and for Rosemary and for the family and she has asked me to thank you very much for your love.

 

Jackie has been confined to bed for several weeks after breaking a bone in her spine and she has been battling with constant pain, so please pray for her as well and ask the Lord to surround her with His healing.

 

 

 

 

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 are still

Call me by my old familiar name

Speak to me in the easy way you always used

Put no difference into your tone

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow

Laugh as we always laughed

At the little jokes we always 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

Without the ghost of a shadow in it

Life means all that it ever meant

It is the same as it ever was

There is absolute unbroken continuity

What is death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind

Because I am outofsight?

I am waiting for you for an interval

Somewhere very near

Just around the corner

All is well.

Nothing is past; nothing is lost

One brief moment and all will be as it was before 

How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

 

Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral