Too many shooting off the Belt

[primsong]

Dang. Looks like this is the Year of the Funeral for our little church - we lost an elderly couple earlier this year (within a month of one another), then a man in his 40s to cancer... the mother of our 'handyman' just died last week, another fine old gentleman has been in and out of hospice riding the ragged edge and now *his* wife suddenly died this morning of a heart condition...AND our beloved "grandma" to the entire congregation is fading as well.

Enough already! Everyone is whipping along and shooting off the Great Conveyor Belt of Life a little too quickly, I think! Thankfully, all of them are believers and none were afraid of death at all - but golly, it's been a lot of funeral services for our new pastor.

Gah.

All the rest of you stay alive, 'k?

Comments

[siradaono.livejournal.com]

((((((((((AMY)))))))))))

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I'm doing okay, just...well, a bit death-weary I think. And now this morning the gal who lives with us came up the stairs crying because a young friend of hers had overdosed on pills. :-( I'm beginning to wonder if I should just go buy sympathy cards in bulk.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

My condolences - it is noteworthy the way that really long-term couples seem to go in such quick succession - happened to my grandparents, and I still wonder whether that thing about "dying of a broken heart" or just not having the will to go on can actually be true in some cases. Must be a great comfort to have a faith a moments like that.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

So true - I had a great-grandfather who lived to 104 in great part because he didn't realize his wife had passed on three years before (at 99) - he kept saying "I don't know where that woman is, probably out shopping again, haven't seen her all day..."

[faramirgirl.livejournal.com]

They are in a better place now and no more pain. As one life ends another starts.

[mrs-pippin-took.livejournal.com]

My thoughts are with you and your small community Prim. I don't know what it is but it looks like a lot of people have passed away this year so far. At my Hotel some guests who visited on a regular bases died as well. And some I knew so well. My love and prayers are with you and yours. may you all feel God's love spreading out on your sweet heads