Loss

[JonesCarpeDiem]

Yes, you will feel loss when you quit smoking.

Loss is probably the most understated unknown fear of quitting smoking until we're in the middle of it, but, we all must go through it.

I lost a dear neighbor a short while ago and I attended her memorial service Saturday.

My brother felt the loss of our friend for the first time at the service. I am still numb.

She was a soft spoken, unmarried Japanese woman who came over every Christmas Eve to share it with us.

She was a school teacher and a travel agent.

She and my mom took people to many countries

as tour guides.

She was a chaperone for the Young Americans (a group I sang with) for two summers.

I was very ill he last week of a three month tour. We were in Kyoto. I was in bed that entire week and when the group was leaving for the states, we were afraid I might have an appendicitis that could burst on the plane so I was left behind at the Japan Baptist Hospital.

Ginny stayed with me.

A special soul

is now where she wanted

and strived to be.

Say hi to mom Ginny!

I took this outside the sanctuary after the service. "The beauty and the pain of loss."

"Time is the healer"