A REMEMBRANCE IN NOVEMBER OF HOW MUCH YOU MEAN TO US........

A REMEMBRANCE IN NOVEMBER OF HOW MUCH YOU MEAN TO US........

As the sun sets

on my evening walk,

And my thoughts drift back

to a few months ago

Our Dragonfly Aoife

a treasure in all our eyes

a beautiful Angel

full of colour and love

left this earthly world

only but a mere

few months ago,

but her last breath

does not say

or mean "goodbye,"

for Aoife's

love for us all

is truly timeless,

beyond the

touch of boney death.

Aoife did not

leave herself

to the undertaker,

for decoration

in the house of the dead,

or to lay in the ground

of a Clara graveyard,

but to all of Your

memories of her,

with Love.

Aoife leaves

her thoughts,

her laughter,

her love,

her care,

her charity,

her awesomeness,

her compassion,

her friendship,

her life's journey,

her experiences,

her dreams

to you

whom she has treasured

beyond gold

and precious gems.

Aoife gives us

what no

thief can steal,

the memories

of our times together:

the tender,

special,

amazing,

loving,

caring,

awesome,

love-filled moments,

the successes

we have shared,

also the hard times

that brought us

closer together

and the roads

we have walked

side by side.

Aoife also leaves us all

with a solemn promise

that after arriving home

in the bosom of God,

Aoife will still be

and is present,

whenever

and wherever

you call on her

or pray to her.

Aoife's energy

will be drawn to you

by the magnet

of your love for her.

Whenever you are in need,

call her

and pray to her;

She will come to you,

with her arms

full of wisdom

and light

to open up

your blocked paths,

to untangle

your knots

and to be your

avenue to God.

And all Aoife

has taken with her

as she left us,

is your love

and the millions of memories

of all that we have shared

so she truly enter's her new life

as a multi millionaire

and more.

Fear not nor grieve

dear family and friends

at Aoife's departure,

you whom Aoife

has loved so much,

for her beautiful roots and yours

are forever intertwined

as a sun setting into the sea

of summer skies.

Aoife, you had only

in some ways

just arrived on this earth,

taken only the first of steps

on this journey of life,

told only the first words

of your incredible story.

Your beautiful life

was still only a mountain brook.

You were like snow

that had just fallen from heaven,

pure

and clean

and white.

You were a

tender lily

whose aroma

was still locked up

in its petals.

But now the candle

of your earthly life

has gone out,

leaving our world

so dark,

that it seems as if

the sun itself

was eclipsed

by your passing.

But we believe

that you will

shine on us

always from above,

from the kingdom of Light,

A Kingdom of timelessness

and playfulness,

which seems to have been made

especially for little

young people

like you Aoife.

Look after us all

now always

especially your parents,

your grandparents and family

and all the people

affected by the Coronavirus

in hospital and nursing homes

and look after all our great front line staff,

doctors, nurses, medical staff,

kitchen staff, cleaners, gardai, police,

defence forces, emergency staff,

front line responders, ambulance drivers,

retail staff, shop staff,

neighbours, volunteers,

media people and politicians

and for people everywhere

that are keeping us safe

from the Coronavirus

in these worrying times.

each evening

In stillness,

In solitude,

In emptiness,

In silence,

In prayer,

In reverence

We wait for you.

Your Angel breath

Touches us.

Time stands still

As we sit

Resting in your presence

At your place of resting

At your garden.

Our hearts speak

Of fear,

Of loss,

Of despair,

Of dread,

Of horror.

Our soul

Cries,

Howls,

Wails,

Sobs,

Because

All has gone wrong.

All has been lost,

It's a catastrophe

A complete disaster.

Yet your Angel presence

Comforts us,

Warms us,

Hugs us,

Enkindles us,

Enfolds us,

Prays in us,

Prays for us,

Strengthens us.

You take

Our pain,

Our agony,

Our heartache,

Our pain,

Our suffering,

Our sorrow,

Our whys,

Our tears.

And hold them gently for awhile.

As we return

Each evening,

Each day,

Each hour.

To your resting place,

To your garden,

To your light.

Our eyes cries for you,

Our hearts leap,

Our minds engage,

Our souls breathes,

Anew,

For we are not alone

And we find out,

Although we know it's a fight

To keep it together,

That our Hope is never lost.

We won't let go

We are going to be OK,

One step in front of the other,

We will get through this

And learn to cope,

Learn to survive.

For Your Angelic presence

With Our Lord,

Sits with us.

How do we put into words

A grief so deep.

That it breaks our hearts

And crushes our souls?

How do our souls

So lonely,

So desolate,

So empty say

We miss you?

You are our love,

and

You have drifted away

To somewhere beyond

The moment of now.

We feel we are losing you.

Some days you are you,

You are with us

and

Some days

A little more of you

We feel is gone.

We have lost you.

Until we feel your presence again,

At your place of rest

At your garden.

We want

To tell you

To stay,

Don’t go,

To comeback,

but

We don’t understand.

But we do know,

In our hearts you will always stay.

We love you,

We always did,

We always will,

Why did you have to go,

We miss you.

How do we put into words

A grief so deep

Our eyes cries for you

It breaks our hearts

And crushes our souls?

Every evening,

Every day,

Every hour.

We relive the heartbreak again,

We relive wanting to embrace you again,

We relive wanting to see you again,

We relive wanting to hug you again,

We relive wanting to love you again.

As this world now fills with adversity

You Aoife our Angel dragonfly

Symbolises all that is

Pure,

Gentle,

Loving,

Caring

And Loyal.

Travel to all corners of the earth,

With your blankets of flowers

Springing up,

Wherever your

Angelic presence treads.

Helps those

Who are sick

In body and mind,

And protect

And care

For our Frontline workers

With a touch of your

Healing,

Loving and

Caring wings.

Obtain a special blessing

From Our Saviour

To influence our hearts

To do good,

To give us the desire

To help and care for others,

Especially those in most need,

In our world

That are dealing with the Virus

And so much unrest.

And fill us with joy

At the beauty of our planet.

Fly high our angel dragonfly

We love you and miss you so much.

Bring some sort of peace

to every parent

and grandparent

who has lost a child.

Peace

is your essence.

Peace

is your name.

Bring peace now

to Aoife's

family and friends

who have lost our precious

child,

daughter,

granddaughter,

niece,

cousin,

friend

and classmate,

recently in death.

We come

to You,

God

because we know

that you too,

experienced sorrow,

and are acquainted

with grief

and death.

You too

have endured

the loss of a Child.

You empathize.

We can’t help

but ask,

“Why?”

Forgive

our insistence,

our confusion,

even our anger.

We believe

that you are just,

and we ache

to understand

how this tragic death

of our angel Aoife

is an expression

of that justice,

how it expresses

Your Love.

We also know

in our minds at least

that you seldom

answer the “why?” question.

We press you,

but on these matters

You are mostly silent.

What we ask

instead

is “how?”

How can we

move forward?

How can this

bring us together

and not tear us apart?

How can we now live

under the shadow

of this untimely death

of our beautiful Angel Aoife?

Answer this prayer

with your comfort

and guidance.

Time passes,

minute by minute,

day by day

week by week

and now

month by month.

But not the love

we have for you

Nor the ache

inside of us

Because you are

not here with us.

You were with us

for as long as God

allowed.

You were real.

You were so loved,

You are still so loved,

You existed.

And you

counted.

You were with us

only a short time,

in the scheme of things

But it was time enough

to grow to love

and adore

you,

For you to make a difference

for good in our lives.

You could not stay

But thoughts of you

will forever remain

as does the love

we feel

for you each day

tempered by the pain.

I wish you

hadn’t left us;

I wish you

could have stayed.

We would have

lived

and

laughed

and

loved

as you grew

and learned

and played.

Since I can wish

or pray

for anything,

I wish

and pray

that you were here now.

I wish that we could

hold you close

and whisper goodness

in your ear.

Together

as a family again,

there would be much to do.

Your dad,

your mom

your grandparents

your family

and all of us

and especially

your classmates

your close friends

like Cara and your Uncle Ger,

will always miss you.

This is no joy

and love

In this our world

like what children bring;

so wonderful,

so awesome,

so precious.

Such sorrow

we now feel

in losing you,

it leaves us nearly breathless

almost like

a Coronavirus

type of breathless.

If sorrow serves a purpose,

I wonder what it is.

It seems like empty,

useless pain.

I hope it's more

than this.

You’ve changed our lives

in unknown ways;

more changes

will surely come.

But we’ll never change

the splendor of your memory

in our lives.

I look forward to the times

in life when we are all alone.

You’ll be there with us

in our thoughts,

our precious little one.

Guiding us

and looking after us,

like in this

present time

of lockdown

we wish

we could hold

you close

and hug you

and indeed even hold

and hug one another;

instead we have to be apart.

But we will honor you,

cherish you

and always hold you close in our hearts,

like we do for one another

in these worrying

Coronavirus times.

You are our angel Aoife now,

Watching over

each one of us with care.

We cannot help to think,

What would happen if you were still here?

Love lives on

in our whispered prayers for you,

and to you

and how much you meant to us.

Of a happy life for you in heaven

as our new guardian angel.

You are

our angel Aoife now,

And we will always

pray to you

and love you

for you are

a voice of an Angel

to us now.

We are afraid at times

to live without you,

Afraid

to face our own fears.

You have to be

our angel Aoife now,

guiding us always

Through all of our years

to come.

There will never be another,

Who has changed

our lives

like you.

Your are our angel Aoife now,

guiding us

through everything we now will do.

As the days,

the weeks,

the months

go by,

And we sit alone

and wonder why.

Why did you leave us,

And where did you go?

Though you are watching over us,

We still feel so alone.

Our hearts

will always ache,

and our eyes

will always cry.

Living without you

has left a huge hole

in our lives.

You are our angel Aoife,

Through now,

the entire

future journey

of our lives

through thick and thin.

May God bless you

and keep you,

Until we meet again.

We will always love you

our angel Aoife.

There is no way

to remove the pain.

The grief is oh so real.

The only sanity

is to know,

to believe

in a life beyond with you,

when all the

scales

are righted

and the sufferings

are made good.

We trust you God

and your promise

that while Aoife's

child’s life on earth is done,

her life as yours

and our angel Aoife

beyond has just begun.

With that release

we lose Aoife

and let her go into your arms,

then by faith

we receive in return

the boundless comfort

of our angel Aoife

and your holy presence.

That is all,

that in time

and in acceptance

is enough.

In Jesus.

Grief will still

consumes us

the loss will always

be so deep

because you are

so unbelievably missed Aoife,

your memory is so cherished.

For you are

our angel Aoife now

forever walking beside us.

Guiding us

and always

holding us close

We love you

and always will!

Amen xx

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