A LOSS SO GREAT!

It’s been happening for thousands of years – death – the loss of a loved one: a father, a mother, a brother, a sister or some other relative.  Yet we as humans have not come to grasp with the loss of a relative.  It is quite a traumatic event.

 

That is how I have been feeling these past months since I lost my Dear Darling Mother Evelyn Korlu Cooper in Death on July 10, 2012.  Each day it seems to me that it has been a dream.  Even when I look at the pictures taken during the funeral, I still feel like doubting it; that she is dead – resting in death.  I miss her so much just as much as my other eight brothers and sisters miss her.  The grief came over her forty grand children, forty nine great grand children and three great, great grand children, her only surviving Sister and surviving brother and a host of other relatives and friends.

 

My Late Mother in my office

It is because of the feelings that I have been experiencing that it has taken me this long to publish this event.  I hope that when I publish it this will make it real to me and allow me to accept it as one of the events that happens in the lives of us humans.

 

My Late Mother and me together in my office

Don’t get me wrong.  I am not a person without hope.  No.  I do have the hope of the Bible firmly impressed in my mind.  This hope is expressed in various passages of the Holy Bible as follows:

 

(John 5:28-29) 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.

 

(Acts 24:15) 15 and I have hope toward God, which hope these [men] themselves also entertain, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous. . .

 

(Acts 17:31) 31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.”

 

These scriptures are sources of strength to me, but I still feel the loss.  So I share my loss with you all and hope that the scriptures above and others in the Holy Bible will also strengthen you if you ever come to experience such a loss.

My Older Sister mourns the death of our Late Mother.

The Headstone we made for our Late Mother giving meaning to her life.

 

My Sisters in the front row at the Funeral Home for the removal of the body

The Memorial Tomb of our Late Mother. May she rest in peace until the resurrection.