Memorial Service 2013

In their name

Who are gone

These young hearts

These flawless souls

In their name

Let our lives grow

~Sascha Wagner

We attended the Celebration of Life Memorial Service on September 15th in memory of Abrielle and other children who passed at Children's Mercy.  The girls enjoy how they can be included in the ceremony and that they get to remember their sister too.

They made leaves for the memorial tree.

Litany of Remembrance
As we gather, let us lift our voices!
Our voices speak the names of our beloved children, who have touched our lives and our hearts.
Remembering their names together we lift our voices in grief,
For we share the common bond ~ the experience of loving a child who has died.
Our voices cry out with a strange mixture of tears and laughter,
For we have experienced the tension between joy and sorrow, deep love and suffering.
As we remember our children, we give voice to both grief and hope,
For even as we grieve, we are transformed by the power of love.
Our voices utter prayers for comfort and peace.
Prayers that weave the names and memories of our children into the fiber of our being and fill us with the courage to face each new day open to the mysteries of life.
In one voice,
We give thanks for our children.
(written by Rev. Claudia Ricks Hubbard)

Like the Butterfly

 

It fluttered there above my head,

weightless in the soft breeze.

I reached up my hand,

it lit upon my finger.

 

Waving glistening wings together

it looked at me for timeless moments.

I smiled, reaching deep and

finding all those cherished memories.

 

As it flitted off through the sunlit morning,

I knew we had said hello once more.

~ Leslie Langford 

We also each receive a small heart shaped stone with an impression of a butterfly in it and a magnet.