<p>I am so sorry for your loss. Hugs to you and your daughters.</p>
<p>I am so very, very sorry. You and your daughters are in my prayers.</p>
<p>I’m so very sorry for your loss. My thoughts are with you and your daughters.</p>
<p>I offer condolences to you and your daughters. This is tragic and a terrible loss of a good man’s life.</p>
<p>It must be impossible to bear all of this alone. You were very kind and brave to post, to let us share this terrible burden of grief with you.</p>
<p>If we were together, I’d be just silently listening to you.</p>
<p>Dear crabbylady, I’m so sorry for your loss. Big cyberhgs to you and your daughters.</p>
<p>I am so sorry for this most horrible loss to you and your family.</p>
<p>My prayers go out to CL and her family also.</p>
<p>Coincidentally, I just read about the accident in our local paper and the article says a memorial fund will be established. An amazing man. . .</p>
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<p>I am so sorry for your loss and will be praying for you and your daughters.</p>
<p>Such a tragic loss, my thoughts are with you. May his memory be for a blessing.</p>
<p>Crabbylady, I’m so sorry for your loss.</p>
<p>A poem from a fellow countryman. May your husband be at peace. </p>
<p>"THEN Almitra spoke, saying, We would ask now of Death.</p>
<p>And he said:</p>
<p>You would know the secret of death.</p>
<p>But how shall you find it unless you seek
it in the heart of life?</p>
<p>The owl whose night-bound eyes are
blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery
of light.</p>
<p>If you would indeed behold the spirit of
death, open your heart wide unto the body
of life.</p>
<p>For life and death are one, even as the
river and the sea are one.
In the depth of your hopes and desires
lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;</p>
<p>And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow
your heart dreams of spring.</p>
<p>Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden
the gate to eternity.</p>
<p>Your fear of death is but the trembling
of the shepherd when he stands before the
king whose hand is to be laid upon him in
honour.</p>
<p>Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his
trembling, that he shall wear the mark of
the king?</p>
<p>Yet is he not more mindful of his trem-
bling?</p>
<p>For what is it to die but to stand naked
in the wind and to melt into the sun?</p>
<p>And what is to cease breathing, but to
free the breath from its restless tides, that
it may rise and expand and seek God unen-
cumbered?</p>
<p>Only when you drink from the river of
silence shall you indeed sing.</p>
<p>And when you have reached the moun-
tain top, then you shall begin to climb.</p>
<p>And when the earth shall claim your
limbs, then shall you truly dance."</p>
<p>And here’s a poem from the same author for your daughter. </p>
<p>"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.</p>
<p>You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.</p>
<p>You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable."</p>
<p>I"m very sorry for the terrible loss you and your family have suffered.</p>
<p>I am so deeply saddened to learn of your loss. My heart goes out to you and your family. I wish you all strength and love.</p>
<p>Crabbylady,</p>
<p>We are all going to put our arms around you and give you hugs and support to get you through this tragedy. Everyone here at CC is a family and as a family, we all mourn your loss. Please come back to this sight whenever you need us.</p>
<p>Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this difficult time.</p>
<p>crabbylady: your loss is immense, and there are no words adequate. sending you prayers and wishes for the well-being of your children and all those who mourn with you.
Faline2 in Virginia</p>
<p>Hi crabbylady,
He was a great man. Thinking of you and your daughters and the many children he cared for.</p>
<p>I’m very sorry to hear of your loss crabbyladdy. Please know I’ll hold your family in my heart and in my prayers.</p>
<p>So sorry to read this. Your husband sounds like he was an incredible man. Condolences to you and your family.</p>
<p>I am sorry for your terrible loss and hope that you and your daughters find comfort in the memories of your wonderful husband.</p>