So very sad to loose ones mother. We send our sympathy to all your family. I came across this verse while visiting a church in England and find it brings me comfort. I hope it does the same for you. What is dying? A ship sails and I stand watching till she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, "She is gone". Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all; she is just as large as when I saw her... the diminished size and total loss of sight is in me, not in her, and just at the moment when someone at my side says "she is gone", there are others who are watching her coming, and other voices take up the glad shout, "there she comes!" ...and that is dying. -- Bishop Charles Henry Brent --