Jackie Hakala
Mom,
It is has been a year on the 18th of February that God has called you home. Here are some of my thoughts to you from what you have shared with me. This is what I try to do every day:
Now that your are gone, I try hard to remember you with smiles and laughter.
And when I need to cry, I cry with my brother or sister who walkes in grief beside me.
And when I need you, I put my arms around someone and give to them what I think you need to give to me. There are so many who need so much.
You have left me with somthing more then words. I look for you in the people you have known or helped in some special way. You live in my heart as well as in my mind. I can feel your love the most when I reach out to our loved ones, by embracing them.
Love does not die. From this earth, people only do. I think of you as living. I know you are, even though I cannot see you as yet. For nothing loved is ever lost, and you are loved so very much. Now when I am alone at night, you probably don't need it, but I gently drop a prayer for you into Jesus's Sacred Heart. When you are alone with Jesus now, could you gently whisper to him a little prayer for me? I love you now and forever, Jackie