Dodgergirl
Dec 01, 2007, 11:20 PM
To all of my friends...
This is a cause I've been involved with in the past & will continue to be in the future. I honestly hope you have never been associated with them in the past, but will open yourself up to them now...and in the future...
Memories of those we've lost are hard to deal with sometimes, but those that are especially difficult to understand is the death of a child...
Sadly, I've dealt with this and still (after many years) don't understand why??
Families who have lost a child deal with it in many ways, ours was to start a scholarship fund and because the internet was just blossoming at the time of his passing, join various bereavement groups... one of these was www.compassionatefriends.org
Just wanted to let you know our plans for next Sunday (which is especially poignant because it is my daughters birthday). For lack of better words, I will reprint message...
Held annually the second Sunday in December, this year December 9, The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles for one hour to honor and remember children who have died at any age from any cause. As candles are lit at 7 p.m. local time, hundreds of thousands of persons commemorate and honor children in a way that transcends all ethnic, cultural, religious, and political boundaries.
The Worldwide Candle Lighting is a gift from The Compassionate Friends to the bereavement community allowing us all to join together in unity to remember and honor the memories of all children so they may never be forgotten.
Believed to be the largest mass candle lighting on the globe, the Worldwide Candle Lighting creates a virtual 24-hour wave of light as it moves from time zone to time zone. Hundreds of formal candle lighting events are held and thousands of informal candle lightings are conducted in homes as families gather in quiet remembrance of special children to always be remembered.
Check out the webite and if you care, light a candle for our boy, Jonathan, 7/2/76--5/22/03
and the one who might have been...
This is a cause I've been involved with in the past & will continue to be in the future. I honestly hope you have never been associated with them in the past, but will open yourself up to them now...and in the future...
Memories of those we've lost are hard to deal with sometimes, but those that are especially difficult to understand is the death of a child...
Sadly, I've dealt with this and still (after many years) don't understand why??
Families who have lost a child deal with it in many ways, ours was to start a scholarship fund and because the internet was just blossoming at the time of his passing, join various bereavement groups... one of these was www.compassionatefriends.org
Just wanted to let you know our plans for next Sunday (which is especially poignant because it is my daughters birthday). For lack of better words, I will reprint message...
Held annually the second Sunday in December, this year December 9, The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles for one hour to honor and remember children who have died at any age from any cause. As candles are lit at 7 p.m. local time, hundreds of thousands of persons commemorate and honor children in a way that transcends all ethnic, cultural, religious, and political boundaries.
The Worldwide Candle Lighting is a gift from The Compassionate Friends to the bereavement community allowing us all to join together in unity to remember and honor the memories of all children so they may never be forgotten.
Believed to be the largest mass candle lighting on the globe, the Worldwide Candle Lighting creates a virtual 24-hour wave of light as it moves from time zone to time zone. Hundreds of formal candle lighting events are held and thousands of informal candle lightings are conducted in homes as families gather in quiet remembrance of special children to always be remembered.
Check out the webite and if you care, light a candle for our boy, Jonathan, 7/2/76--5/22/03
and the one who might have been...