Journey 158: Moving on

Yesterday afternoon, I received a text from one of the survivors of the Tuguegarao City fire telling me they are at the Philippine Lung Center for their medical check up, all 10 of them, graduates of the University of La Sallete in Santiago City, in Isabela. They were accompanied by ULS staffs and was touched by the gesture that the text message we shared between us was heart-warming and a reassurance that the survivors are now moving on. I told them to carry on the task for greater is the responsibilities they took upon their shoulders because they have lived today to retell the stories of what has happened on the dawn of December 19, 2010. It was a tragic death of the 10 nurses of Isabela but it is also a momentous life for the other 10 nurses of La Sallete.

I take on the courage writing about them who have chosen to move along despite this tragedy. They have a life full to live and memories to live by those brave souls who have left them in their journey. Their motivation of moving on in life is the gift of life they have been given. I will never deny them the chance to be embraced even in my prayers and support.

Anyone who might be reading this blog can offer them prayers and donate in their behalf for their continued antibiotics and other medicines needed for their lungs as mostly of them have lung problems due to the smoke inhalation. They needed ointment for burns and mostly, they need our support to forever live again. We are humanity out to care for each other. I am hoping that someone will find peace in giving them more chances of living after this tragedy.

I have cared for those 10 souls who have left but we have more to care for those who survived in the fire. They needed our help more than you could have ever known. The road may become narrower ahead but we are journeying along, we are together in this journey. We shall overcome!

Journey 133: Miss me but Let me Go

Miss Me, But Let Me Go

When I come to the end of the road
And the sun has set for me,
I want no rites in a gloom filled room
Why cry for a soul set free!
Miss me a little, but not for long,
And not with your head bowed low.
Remember the love we once shared,
Miss me, but let me go!
For this a journey we all must take,
And each must go alone;
It’s all a part of the master’s plan
A step on the road to home.
When you are lonely and sick of heart
Go to the friends we know,
And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds,
Miss me, but let me go.

Robyn Rancman

The poem by Robyn Rancman best describes us when we grieve over someone we have loss. Surely as well said, we shall be missing them but the healing starts with what has been and will always be the saddest part, letting go. Letting go of those that can hold them back in their journey, instead, send them off with love, prayers, peace and respects.

As mostly of those 10 nurses were buried today and in the days to come in Santiago City and in other places in Isabela Province, let us be one in their grief and bereavement.

In reality, no one can ever cheat death at best we can. All of us go back to where we should be and reclaim the glory that is ours. For this, I find solace in the poem by Emily Dickinson of which I sort of reflect as I read through.

Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labour, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then ’tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses’ heads
Were toward eternity.

- Emily Dickinson

Rest in peace all of you brothers.

Journey 132: If Tomorrow Never Comes

Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She’s lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she’s my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

‘Cause I’ve lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there’s no second chance to tell her how I feel

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she’s my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

So tell that someone that you love
Just what you’re thinking of
If tomorrow never comes

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Rest in Peace all of you brothers. I have been trying to share some music or video here on my blog but cant. I was trying to fidget on the keyboard. I am sending you my thoughts, prayers and peace. Some of you will be laid to rest tomorrow, carry with you our love, appreciation, respect and hope.