Posts Tagged ‘Lester Mortimer; tragic death. grief’
Tribute to my Father: Sep 1 1933 – Apr 16 2005
As I shared in my post of March 10th where I paid tribute to a friend, when I lost my father to a traffic fatality five years ago today, I was always searching for something, anything, to help me get through another day. Into about the third year, surprisingly, that something came in the form a simple quote supposedly found on a headstone in Ireland:
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory, no one can steal”
When I came across this quote, it was as if it had been written for me as it confirmed my feeling that the heartache I was feeling, would never heal and that it was alright to feel that way. More importantly, it reminded me that the many cherished memories I had of my father, could never be taken away. From that moment on, I have been able to live with the heartache because the memories are like a balm that soothes.
