In a message dated 4/7/2004 5:02:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
TCFAtlantaOnline@... writes:
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The Sorrow of the Easter Lily

My mother (Lisa's grandmother) is buried in the old, historic City of Decatur
cemetery. One springtime I told Lisa that I was going there to clean the
marker and put out fresh flowers. She wanted to come with me and together we
scrubbed the white marble marker. Lisa's business suit didn't even slow her
down
as she scrubbed. I thought how nice it was to have her doing this task with
me and imagined a future when she would be taking care of my grave.

On the way there she had wanted to stop off at a florist. She bought three
beautiful white Easter Lilies. When the grave site was neat and clean, Lisa
placed the lilies there and stood in reverence before her grandmother's grave.
I wondered if she was sad because of a sweet grandmother who had died too
soon. Then she did a strange thing ... she sat down behind the marker and put
her
head in her hands and cried. I didn't think she was crying for a grandmother
who had died when she was only 5 years old. She barely remembered her. I
sat down beside her and put my arm around her and held her while she cried. Not
wanting to intrude, I did not ask why she wept. I hoped she would confide in
me, but she did not.

Two years later, I buried her there beside her grandmom ... the place where I
thought I would be someday. Her reason for weeping that day will always be
one of those haunting "Why's" for me. I will forever wonder why she cried.
Did she have some insight that this would happen? Did she have some
foreknowledge of her own death? If only I could return to that day, I would
tell her not
to cry and not to be afraid. I would do everything in my power to protect
her from her fate. As it is, I try to enjoy the fragrance and beauty of the
Easter Lily, but it brings back the vision of my beautiful angel weeping at her
own soon-to-be grave.

Faye Martin, Lisa's mom forever
Marietta Chapter, GA
www.lisalamb3.com/
LisaLamb3@...

~reprinted from TCF Online 4/19/2003

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It's Happening Again

LOVE VALERIE
MOM OF
CHARLES RAY SHAW
2-3-68 1-29-02
FOREVER IN MY HEART AND SOUL


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