Thursday's Thoughts: In Memory Of A Young Mother And Her Sons

 

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
-Thomas Campbell

Yarden, Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas

Image courtesy/The Times Of Israel

Do not stand by my grave, and weep.

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am the thousand winds that blow

I am the diamond glints in snow

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle, autumn rain.

As you awake with morning's hush,

I am the swift, up-flinging rush

Of quiet birds in circling flight.

I am the day transcending night.

Do not stand by my grave and cry-

I am not there. I did not die.

In Loving Memory of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas.

May they rest in eternal peace.

My heart and prayers are with Yarden Bibas, the family
 of Oded Lifshitz, and all the Israeli people who are suffering 
as a result of this war against them. 

May God comfort them with His love and with His peace
in this time of immeasurable sorrow and loss.

"Immortality"
(Do Not Stand By My Grave And Weep)
Clare Harner
(1934)