[WillowTheWhisp]

It seems like we have done nothing but go to funerals in recent months and now we've got two in the same week. On Monday was the funeral of a lovely lady who has been a friend for years. My girls have known her all their lives. So many memories. So many old friends gathered together to pay their last respects and say goodbye. She had a long and full life and a very peaceful death. Tomorrow another friend who we haven't known quite so long and whose death is a blessed release from the pain and suffering she has been through this past year and more with cancer treatment. It's a relief that her suffering is over but she wasn't very old and leaves 2 children who will miss her terribly. :(

I don't know really what I'm trying to say here except that I have been up and down a roller coaster of mixed emotions. Not long ago another young man died suddenly and unexpectedly leaving a young widow whose mother is also terminally ill. Another friend of ours is in intensive care. It seems like all around us people are suffering and grieving.