Comments on: WHEN YOUR BEST FRIEND HAS DIED - A request for advice http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/when-your-best-friend-has-died-a-request-for-advice/ The house, portfolio, Mercedes and the 2.5 kids have been attained – and the question being asked now is, "IS THAT ALL THERE IS?" Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:15:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Corinne http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/when-your-best-friend-has-died-a-request-for-advice/#comment-3320 Corinne Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:43:19 +0000 http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/?p=207#comment-3320 Hi Karen - Thanks for your lovely concern. Yes, that post is still available. You can find it here - http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/making-new-best-friends-a-tutorial-from-arlene/ Hi Karen -

Thanks for your lovely concern.

Yes, that post is still available. You can find it here -

http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/making-new-best-friends-a-tutorial-from-arlene/

]]> By: Karen Peterson http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/when-your-best-friend-has-died-a-request-for-advice/#comment-3311 Karen Peterson Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:45:44 +0000 http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/?p=207#comment-3311 Dear Corinne, You have been in my thoughts so much lately, along with the ever present Arlene. Are you sleeping? Have you tried benedryl? This loss of someone who's been an important part of your life for so long is indescribably numbing and painful. For me, she has become part of my inner life. Everything she ever said to me comes back, in her voice. I hoped to see the tutorial and the wonderful picture. Is it still accessible? Perhaps you can squeeze me in for a wednesday lunch, or any other day. Love, Karen Dear Corinne,
You have been in my thoughts so much lately, along with the ever present Arlene. Are you sleeping? Have you tried benedryl?
This loss of someone who’s been an important part of your life for so long is indescribably numbing and painful. For me, she has become part of my inner life. Everything she ever said to me comes back, in her voice.

I hoped to see the tutorial and the wonderful picture. Is it still accessible?

Perhaps you can squeeze me in for a wednesday lunch, or any other day.

Love, Karen

]]> By: Corinne http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/when-your-best-friend-has-died-a-request-for-advice/#comment-3018 Corinne Fri, 30 May 2008 16:05:09 +0000 http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/?p=207#comment-3018 Dear Deb - That is a beautiful song. AND I BELIEVE EVERY WORD! Thank you for your interest in this article! You have been so helpful! Dear Deb -

That is a beautiful song. AND I BELIEVE EVERY WORD!

Thank you for your interest in this article! You have been so helpful!

]]> By: Deb Estep http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/when-your-best-friend-has-died-a-request-for-advice/#comment-3016 Deb Estep Fri, 30 May 2008 14:05:47 +0000 http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/?p=207#comment-3016 PS...... ** ** You can hear the song if you click on my name... it will take you to the link. PS……
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You can hear the song if you click on my
name… it will take you to the link.

]]> By: Deb Estep http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/when-your-best-friend-has-died-a-request-for-advice/#comment-3015 Deb Estep Fri, 30 May 2008 14:04:09 +0000 http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/?p=207#comment-3015 Hello Corinne, Dropping by again to share this song with you... The Other Side I have been sharing this song to the families of our Fallen Heroes. I don't think I have ever heard a more touching song. Don Conoscenti, the author has given me his permission to share the lyrics and also to have the song play in the background of this web site:http://musictoshare.blogspot.com/ As a military Mom we say it needs a ~Kleenex Warning~ !! The Other Side I'm over on the other side where life and death softly divide. Left my skin and bones behind now I'm over on the other side. Can you feel me there with you? My breath is gone but I'm not through. Loved you then and i still do from over on the other side. I can fly. really fly. below the earth ... all through the sky. Tell em all I did not die. I'm just over on the other side. It's good here on the other side. The sweetest songs...the bluest skies. Thank you for the tears you cried but it's good here on the other side. I can fly. really fly. below the earth...all through the sky. Tell em all I did not die. I'm just over on the other side The world is smaller than a needle's eye. Where life and death softly divide. When you leave your skin and bones behind I'll be waiting on the other side. I can fly. really fly. below the earth ... all through the sky. Go tell em all I did not die. I'm just over on the other side. Hello Corinne,

Dropping by again to share this song with you…

The Other Side
I have been sharing this song to the families
of our Fallen Heroes.
I don’t think I have ever heard a more touching song.

Don Conoscenti, the author has given me his permission
to share the lyrics and also to have the song play
in the background of this web site:http://musictoshare.blogspot.com/
As a military Mom we say it needs a ~Kleenex Warning~ !!

The Other Side

I’m over on the other side
where life and death softly divide.
Left my skin and bones behind
now I’m over on the other side.

Can you feel me there with you?
My breath is gone but I’m not through.
Loved you then and i still do
from over on the other side.

I can fly. really fly.
below the earth … all through the sky.
Tell em all I did not die.
I’m just over on the other side.

It’s good here on the other side.
The sweetest songs…the bluest skies.
Thank you for the tears you cried
but it’s good here on the other side.

I can fly. really fly. below the earth…all through the sky.
Tell em all I did not die.
I’m just over on the other side

The world is smaller than a needle’s eye.
Where life and death softly divide.
When you leave your skin and bones behind
I’ll be waiting on the other side.

I can fly. really fly. below the earth … all through the sky.
Go tell em all I did not die.
I’m just over on the other side.

]]> By: Deb Estep http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/when-your-best-friend-has-died-a-request-for-advice/#comment-3003 Deb Estep Thu, 29 May 2008 11:56:26 +0000 http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/?p=207#comment-3003 Dear Corinne, My heartfelt sympathy to you on the passing of Arlene. I had made a post about a year ago, and I am sharing a part of that here. Also.... the link I used for my web site will take you to where this is posted and one more thing above it. Please check out both. :) Holding you and all who know Arlene close in prayer. xo xo Deb May 24, 2007 ~Live~ And Let Their Light Shine Over time the life moments that we build with that person become committed to both of our memories. If we are apart from them for a time, when we see them again, we can go back and visit the past. Through our shared conversations we recall our lives together. Thoughts of summer days, past holidays, vacation travel, or even mundane everyday activities are exchanged. That person has their memories and you share the same memory, even though your memory of the time spent together might differ slightly. When families or friends gather together, not only do we share what is going on now, we share future plans and happily re-visit past times. In the death of someone you love there is no more hearing them speak. Gone is the ability to reminisce and travel in thought together. A part of you dies. It’s like a piece of your heart has been chipped off and actually withers away. For a time, a part of you just wants to be done with this living and join them. Your passed over loved one or friend is in spirit standing behind you ready to kick your ass and say LIVE !!! IF you could hear them speak these would be their words to you ….. “Not only do you hold MY memories, you also hold ~ MY SPIRIT ~ in your heart. Get out in this world and honor me and LIVE in my name." Today, May 24, 2007 I am not just sitting here at my computer trying to conjure up some sappy, blog post. I am explaining my life to you. ! My very dear friend Cindy died in July of 2001. Although I had faced the death of loved ones prior to Cindy’s passing, it was Cindy’s death that prompted me to live my life with HER in my heart and to LIVE my life in her name. In this way, the love never really dies, it’s only changed and in a different form. Deb Esteps last blog post..<a href="http://deb_inside.typepad.com/deb_inside/2008/04/a-message-today.html" rel="nofollow">A Message Today ~ From Nature</a> Dear Corinne,

My heartfelt sympathy to you on the passing of Arlene.
I had made a post about a year ago, and I am sharing
a part of that here.
Also…. the link I used for my web site will
take you to where this is posted and one more thing
above it. Please check out both. :)

Holding you and all who know Arlene close in prayer.
xo xo
Deb

May 24, 2007
~Live~ And Let Their Light Shine

Over time the life moments that we build with that person become committed to both of our memories. If we are apart from them for a time, when we see them again, we can go back and visit the past.

Through our shared conversations we recall our lives together.
Thoughts of summer days, past holidays, vacation travel,
or even mundane everyday activities are exchanged. That person has their memories and you share the same memory,
even though your memory of the time spent together
might differ slightly.

When families or friends gather together, not only do we share
what is going on now, we share future plans and happily re-visit past times.

In the death of someone you love there is no more hearing
them speak. Gone is the ability to reminisce and travel in thought together. A part of you dies. It’s like a piece of your heart has been chipped off and actually withers away.

For a time, a part of you just wants to be done with this living and join them. Your passed over loved one or friend is in spirit standing

behind you ready to kick your ass and say LIVE !!!

IF you could hear them speak these would be their words to you …..

“Not only do you hold MY memories,

you also hold ~ MY SPIRIT ~ in your heart.

Get out in this world

and honor me and LIVE in my name.”

Today, May 24, 2007

I am not just sitting here at my computer
trying to conjure up some sappy, blog post.

I am explaining my life to you. !

My very dear friend Cindy died in July of 2001.
Although I had faced the death of loved ones prior to Cindy’s passing, it was Cindy’s death that prompted me to live my life with HER in my heart and to LIVE my life in her name.

In this way, the love never really dies, it’s only changed and
in a different form.

Deb Esteps last blog post..A Message Today ~ From Nature

]]> By: Corinne http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/when-your-best-friend-has-died-a-request-for-advice/#comment-2990 Corinne Mon, 26 May 2008 19:19:32 +0000 http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/?p=207#comment-2990 Dear Stephen - You got a date! And you know what? All my new friends - like special ones like you - do make a difference. It helps me a lot. Dear Stephen -

You got a date!

And you know what? All my new friends - like special ones like you - do make a difference.

It helps me a lot.

]]> By: Stephen Hopson http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/when-your-best-friend-has-died-a-request-for-advice/#comment-2985 Stephen Hopson Mon, 26 May 2008 00:27:37 +0000 http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/?p=207#comment-2985 Well Corinne, I know I'll never be a good substitute for her but whenever I'm in Chicago on a speaking engagement or when Oprah calls me to be on her show, I'll make sure we have our glorious lunch together. How's that? Stephen Hopsons last blog post..<a href="http://www.adversityuniversityblog.com/2008/05/23/end-of-the-week-gratitude-theme-29/" rel="nofollow">End of the Week Gratitude Theme #29</a> Well Corinne, I know I’ll never be a good substitute for her but whenever I’m in Chicago on a speaking engagement or when Oprah calls me to be on her show, I’ll make sure we have our glorious lunch together. How’s that?

Stephen Hopsons last blog post..End of the Week Gratitude Theme #29

]]> By: Corinne http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/when-your-best-friend-has-died-a-request-for-advice/#comment-2984 Corinne Sun, 25 May 2008 23:14:31 +0000 http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/?p=207#comment-2984 Dear Mari - As one of Arlene's closest and longest friends, your comment means a lot to me. We have shared this together for the past year. I guess, in the end, you just learn to absorb the loss and just live with it. I hopw that will be soon for both of us. Dear Mari -

As one of Arlene’s closest and longest friends, your comment means a lot to me. We have shared this together for the past year.

I guess, in the end, you just learn to absorb the loss and just live with it.

I hopw that will be soon for both of us.

]]> By: Corinne http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/when-your-best-friend-has-died-a-request-for-advice/#comment-2983 Corinne Sun, 25 May 2008 23:12:36 +0000 http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/?p=207#comment-2983 Dear Grace - This is such a beautiful quote. ”And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God” …. Thanking you for telling your story. I have found that it is so important to share with others. Dear Grace -

This is such a beautiful quote.

”And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God” ….

Thanking you for telling your story. I have found that it is so important to share with others.

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