<p>ugh…</p>
<p>Oh I am sorry to hear this.
It is hard anytime to lose someone, but around holidays or annivs, it seems to make it harder- cause the celebrating is linked to the loss.</p>
<p>( My own mother died almost a year ago, exactly a month after her 75th birthday - although I expect that eventually, I will not be sad when I think of Christmas)</p>
<p>I didn’t have a chance to say anything on the other thread & I don’t pretend to have followed their story, other than to be disappointed that her husband made a fool out of himself.
But I think Christmas is a time for forgiveness & I hope that her family and friends can find peace this season.</p>
<p>My heart goes out to her children.</p>
<p>She seemed like a very special lady to me. So very sorry to hear of this.</p>
<p>She was a very strong woman in the face of many adversities. I saw a piece where in the recent past, Elizabeth E. said she just wanted 10 more years to see her children into the next chapter in their lives (to the point of their HS graduations) and as a mother, we can all relate and feel the pain in that for her and for her young kids.</p>
<p>As mom that has been given the amazing gift of raising a child who lost their mother at a very young age, my heart is just broken for her children. They are still so young and their lives will be defined by this moment. No matter how much I love the child in my care, no one could, should or needs to replace his mom.</p>
<p>I’m so very sorry for her, and for her children.</p>
<p>How sad - such an incredibly classy woman. I wondered when I saw the news last night if it was going to be this fast - with everyone gathering at her side it seemed like it would be days rather than weeks. I love the way she held her head high despite her husband’s transgressions - don’t know how many could do the same.</p>
<p>Agree with everything you said, RVmom. Very classy woman, and very strong.</p>
<p>Very sad news.</p>
<p>Peace and prayers for Elizabeth and her family.</p>
<p>I’ve admired this woman and feel for the family. Sometimes life makes no sense.</p>
<p>Prayers for Elizabeth and her family. I hope this classy lady is at peace now.</p>
<p>I’m thinking of my friends who have had breast cancer. I just know that they felt a cold chill on hearing this news. So I feel for all the breast cancer patients out there today.</p>
<p>Very sad news. I’ll say prayer for her family.</p>
<p>I’m not a parent, so I hope it’s okay if I post in “Parent Cafe.”</p>
<p>Elizabeth Edwards was a role model of resilience and grace. I read her final message yesterday, and I was devastated to come home to my Dad telling me of her death. I did not expect this so soon, and my heart goes out to her children. Moreover, I remember all the unpublicized tragedies, and all those mourning under such circumstances without the media two feet away. Elizabeth Edwards, her friends, her family, and all others losing a mother/sister/friend are in my prayers.</p>
<p>In the spring of 2007, my husband and I and our son (who’d just finished 5th grade) made a special trip into Manhattan for a fund raiser for John Edwards. I was so excited to have my son shake the hand of our potential next President.</p>
<p>Knowing what I know now, I would have made much more of an effort to meet Elizabeth Edwards. She is definitely a much more worthwhile, authentic, caring, honest and morally upright person than that vile little weasel. It’s as if the gods meant to visit all possible difficulties on one of the Edwards, and they missed their target. She should not be the one dying.</p>
<p>I dont think we are all 100 percent saints or 100 percent sinners. the truth lies in between. I dont know much about her life or how she was with John. However i think she conducted herself with grace. I know this has struck the cancer community hard, a grim reminder of what we all fear. I consider myself young having been diagnosed at age 34, 35 and then again at 49. I feel fortunate to have seen my children into their teens and greedily hope for more time. Honestly it stinks sometimes to have to live with this. so i admire her so much.</p>
<p>ABC News tonight mentioned two quotes, one that Elizabeth loved from a song by Leonard Cohen:
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There’s a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”</p>
<p>And from her book, she said she was hoping that when her children’s children asked about her, that her kids could tell them that their grandmother “stood fast in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way - and surely it has not - she adjusted her sails.”</p>
<p>I am sure she would say that the greatest tragedy in her life was not her husband’s betrayal or even her cancer, it was the loss of her 16 year old son Wade. </p>
<p>She surely lived her life with grace and dignity in the face of tragedy.</p>
<p>I hope Elizabeth is enjoying the sweetest reunion right now with her son Wade, whom she and John Edwards lost so many years ago. She deserves to rest in peace. I pray that her surviving children may eventually take comfort in the many, many sweet memories they undoubtedly have of their mother.</p>