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Sod's Law
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 21 Jan 2007 18:00 |
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Just put Songs of Praise on in the background..... |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 21 Jan 2007 18:08 |
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When I was young I would often find my mother ironing away in the evening when I couldn't sleep (dad wiould be at work) and she would be crying if the hymn Abide with Me was on, she explained it was my Grandmother's favourite. I never knew my Grandmother as she died when my mum was only 16. Since then I have always associated the hymn with my mum and when she died in 1995, she left a letter for me and my brothers stating which hymns she wanted at her funeral. She hadn't chosen that one for my dad who had died 5 years earlier, his had been the Lord is My Shepherd, only there was a mixup and the organist played the wrong tune, not the usual Crimond! Mum said in her letter 'No Liz, not Abide with Me - I won't leave you with that!' Did she never realise it had been buried deep within since I was tiny? We might as well have used it. At the funeral I went to on Friday both hymns were sung and as usual I struggled through. They have both just been played and sung on the programme. They are the most chosen I think at other people's funerals, so I have a legacy that will always come back to me - beautiful hymns with meaningful words, but always bittersweet. Do others have similar 'legacies'? |
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Cumbrian Caz~**~ | Report | 21 Jan 2007 18:14 |
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Liz thanks for sharing that with us, bless your Mum, I was in the church choir for many years and there are so many hymns which touch me, John Rutters works are wonderful too, Caz xxxxxxxxxxx |
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***Julie*Ann***.sprinkling fairydust*** | Report | 21 Jan 2007 18:16 |
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its songs i hear remind me of mum when mum died my daughter was 8 and son 2 and daughter went through a bit of a rough time as her andmum were very close, she had stayed with mum and dad for a week in the august wen we moved house and mum adn dad brought her to our new house at the end of the week, mum died in the december same year, xmas eve, some months later daughter heard a song by pretenders, ill stand by you, she said this is nanas song for me, when i stayed at her and gangs,(her pet name for grandad) nana said this song is for me and you, 13 years on it makes me smile when i hear itnow as its like mums saying im watching over her , dont worry |
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