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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 11/19/2007 12:13:00 AM

Marie M.

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Welcome Laura to the forum. I am so very sorry for your loss. As you said times can be be bittersweet. Yes they can be. My daughter who is now 4 has been God sent in many ways, at a time of the loss of her brother. I had miscarried early on in the pregnancy prior to my daughter. The blessings of the gift of life bring much joy, although God had other plans we were not aware of.

" I know the plans I have for you, to give you a future and a hope". Jeremiah 29:11
This is on a magnet on my refrigerator given to me many years ago by some friends that I had worked with at a Church. Looking at it has gotten me through many of the hardest of days, and prayers.

I will light a candle for your son and keep your family in my prayers. Thank you for connecting.

God Bless you
Marie
Seneca's Mom

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 11/19/2007 12:45:49 AM

Marie M.

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Hi Jude. I hope things are well between your son and you. Keeping you in my prayers for peace in your family.
God Bless
Marie
Seneca's Mom

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 11/22/2007 1:40:16 AM

Marie M.

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Happy Blessed Thanksgiving to everyone. May we all have a day blessed with love, peace and comfort
through many diffucult situations.

God Bless Us All
Marie
Seneca's Mom

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 11/22/2007 8:59:46 AM

Hildegard

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Dear Marie,

A blessed and happy Thanksgiving to you!

With much love,
Edda

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Peace and joy!

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 11/22/2007 1:52:49 PM

Lori

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((Marie))

My thoughts & prayers are with you and your family during this time. A warm and blessed Thanksgiving to you all....

~Lori

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 11/22/2007 2:04:10 PM

buttington

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Hello Marie, thank you for your good wishes. Wishing you all good things too.
Love Jude

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/5/2007 2:23:29 AM

Marie M.

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Thank you for prayers and candles Edda, Marie, Maija's parents, Lori, Lynn and Buba and for those I may have missed and have not mentioned. I am Grateful for candles and your prayers. Thank you Zen Member for your personal story of your brother in law and his wife. It made me think of the outcome in my own situation.

When I first came to this site, it had been three years since I lost my son Seneca. The pain of such a loss is indescribeable. I had wondered, as I had said, that as his parent if I will ever get over it. As his parent I have come to realize I will never get over losing Seneca, how could I?, not a very rational thing to wonder I can see now. The loss will forever be with me and I must change and work through to be at a new level of functioning. It has become a mindset to be happy and live life fully daily. The other alternative was to be stuck in grief, anger and constant sadness all the time is not where I wanted to be.

To be happy is something I would have wanted for my son if the situation was in reverse. As a parent you would not want your child to be consumed with grief and stop loving life as you had loved them in some ways. With the holidays coming up, sadness initially comes to my being, but also does the thought my son is with me in spirit. Always. It was not supposed to be this way or did I ever expect it to be this way. But this was a plan from a higher power, God. God blessed me with 23 years of a beautiful child to love, teach and nurture. It was his plan for this short time.

The Holidays will never be the same, nor can I expect them to be, nor will I ever be the same, but finding the love, of living life fully is different and does not come as naturally as it used to. It takes more effort now, but it is possible. One must try harder to appreciate all the beauty that surrounds them in God's creations. To at least to be, or regain who I once was.
And I look to the sky and smile and pray to God to watch over my Angel with a tear in my eyes.
Tommorrow, and during the holidays the process will be repeated , but in time it may become more natural as a thought process.

Angels come to you in many forms.
Thank you and God Bless the Angels that are here.
Amen.
Marie
Seneca's Mom

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/5/2007 1:15:56 PM

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Marie, I found your post profoundly moving and beautiful Your lovely Son has given you a gift. I know you would rather have him, but it's a gift just the same.

Much Love, Jude

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/6/2007 7:11:54 AM

mbc56

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Dear Marie, Thank you for your prayers and candles for little Marie Bah and I am grateful that I am able to tell you that she was found alive and well by the police late last night and returned to her joyous parents.
You are a special person Marie,
Andrew's mum, Marie.

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/6/2007 7:00:55 PM

Marie M.

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Thank you Jude. Expression has been very helpful for me in healing, for the longest time it was not possible.

God Bless you
Marie
Seneca's Mom

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/6/2007 7:12:50 PM

Marie M.

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Marie, I am relieved and overjoyed to hear that little Marie Bah has been returned home to her parents. Thank you God! This family has been blessed by Marie being found.

Marie
Seneca's Mom

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/8/2007 10:11:19 AM

Lynn

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God Bless Angel Seneca and his loving Mom.

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/8/2007 10:04:49 PM

Marie M.

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Lynn thank you for your kindness. You are doing a great thing for our soldiers with passing out the fliers and information. I have just been on the operation gratitude web page. May you be blessed and my prayers for Robby and you.

Marie
Seneca's Mom

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/21/2007 2:13:28 AM

Marie M.

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Prayer request please, for my Aunt Martha who had a heart attack yesterday and later into the night had suffered from heart failure. She is in her nineties. May she be free from pain and recover.
I have started a candle group for her under Marta.

Marie
Seneca's Mom

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/21/2007 2:19:54 AM

Marie M.

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Aunt Martha's group is renamed to Marth. There is a group by the name on the previous posting.

Marie
Seneca's Mom

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/22/2007 3:23:25 PM

Marie M.

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Buba and J thank you for lighting candles for my Aunt Martha.

Marie
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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/22/2007 4:06:24 PM

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Dear Marie, I'll be glad to pray for you aunt Martha and light a candle for her. May she be at peace and in comfort.

Wishiing you everything good,
Love, Edda

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Peace and joy!

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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/23/2007 1:38:12 AM

Marie M.

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Edda thank you for prayers for my Aunt Martha. It is greatly appreciated.

God Bless you
Marie
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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/23/2007 1:40:56 AM

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Lynn thank you for your prayers for my Aunt Martha.

Marie
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RE: My firstborn son Seneca - 12/23/2007 2:34:18 AM

Marie M.

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A Thought to myself.

Take the Time to Remember....

The holidays are fast approaching, The birth of Baby Jesus, Christmas. Holidays that we may call by another name. The hustle and bustle has begun weeks ago, shopping wrapping, baking, and planning the Christmas dinner.

As I sit by the colorful lights of the Christmas tree listening to Christmas songs on the radio, I am thinking of all that needs to be done to have a good Holiday to remember.
I pause to remember and pray for those that are less fortunate who will not be having a holiday dinner, family may not be calling on them and their days are the same even through this very Joyous time of year. The time of the year I, relish the thought of family, togetherness, along with happiness.
So, in the next few days and for a lifetime I put my attention and prayers to those that are less fortunate. It may be a neighbor that I should call on who would enjoy a quick visit and a kind word, the lonely person on the street who I pass by that may enjoy a smile to show them they are acknowledged, or maybe just going out of my way and putting others first by lending a hand in ways I am able to.

The Holidays will come and go as they always do, but this year I take the importance out of my mind of only myself and my family. I am remembering and praying for others that are less fortunate that may be in my neighborhood, town or anywhere I may be. Someone's life I can touch and make a difference to them to bring them a little happiness in their life that may be long overdue. For someone who the holiday is just another day without the means of a dinner or just the fact there may be no family.
I have already gotten my present, my life from God, what can I do to share my Gratefulness of that life....?.

A thought to myself as I sit by the colorful lights of the Chrismas tree listening to Christmas songs on the radio....

I will light a candle for others that may be in need, and pray for them, others I may somehow be able to help, as I have been helped by others, many a time.
Amen.

God Bless you
God Bless us all

Marie
Seneca's Mom

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