How did you get so many pictures on your page its beautiful everytime i try to put a new one it says something about having to be in some kind of format that i don't understand.

Dear Diana - I just read Carrie's post and I feel exactly as she does. I think perhaps every mother in our position has.

dear Diane I am writing to let you know I am in the same place as you. with terrible loss and forever sadness.. we are sad together and sometimes i can get in a laugh and it feels good but we also feel guilty... caring about all of us with all this pain. it will change i guess with time. but not much.. thanks for all the photos and the beautiful headstone. i like how you wrote sunrise sunset. it was moving wish i could be closer so we could talk this site is a bit different than what we could share in person. take care carrie L

Dear Diana - I lost my son Tyler at age 24 on January 26, 2010. He was my only child. He left me with no grandchildren or daughter-in-law. Your son's headstone and the sentiments you placed on it are so very very beautiful. Honestly, I only was at the cemetary once since I lost my beloved son. My husband has never been. It's not that we have forgotten him, it is just too painful to even think about. He is not there, he is in our hearts. Every day is still dark for me. And the holidays only make it worse. Then I know I must face the anniversary of his passing. I wish I could be put in a coma and wake up in February. I will be praying for you and your family, as well as your beautiful son.
JoAnn
Always Tyler's Mom

Diana, your sons angel day sounds like it will be beautiful. You are putting so much effort into this, I know he'll be looking down and this will make him happy. I am so sorry for your loss.

Diana, I am very sorry for the loss of your son. My best friend lost her son a few years ago at age 16, he had a blood clot for no reason just like that one week he was gone. It's no fair and I don't understand. And now dealing without Skylie is so horrible, she was my angel. When you say you have nothing to live for, I totally understand. I just signed a suicide contract with my counselor. I feel like it will be so stinkin easy to just go as easy as Skylie did. But Wednesday night my 19 year old daughter was jumped by at least 20 girls, beaten kicked they stole her cell phone. She is mentally and physically a wreck but she is alive. I want to think that Skylie was there with her aunt Erica. Since that horrible call and trying to find her in a hospital has changed the way I feel about suicide. I'm sorry for going on and on. Please take care of yourself, I am sending you lots and lots of hugs. Teresa

Dear Diana,

I am very sorry for the loss of your son and it saddens me to know that you feel like you have nothing to live for. Losing a child is probably the most painful loss anyone could experience and that pain certainly does not disappear with time. Although I cannot miraculously make you feel better, I would like to share with you some words of comfort found in the Bible.

The passage of a man that lost his ten children all at once tells how he felt when he was informed of this. Job 1: 20 says: “And Job proceeded to get up and rip his sleeveless coat apart and cut the hair off his head and fall to the earth and bow down.” Job tore his clothes and shaved his head as a sign of great pain and grief. Due to everything that he went through he even wished to die, however later on he also expressed faith in God’s desire to bring him and his children back to life when he decided was the right time. Job said: “If an able-bodied man dies can he live again? All the days of my compulsory service I shall wait, until my relief comes. You will call, and I myself shall answer you. For the work of your hands you will have a yearning.” (Job 14: 14, 15) Job was confident that Jehovah God, not only had the power, but also the desire to bring the dead back to life.

Very soon our enemy, death, will be brought to nothing as it states in 1 Corinthians 15: 26. When that happens, the promise Jesus made when he was here on earth will be fulfilled. “For just as the Father raises the dead up and makes them alive, so the Son also makes those alive whom he wants to. Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out.” (John 5: 21, 28, 29) You can be sure that your son will hear Jesus’ voice and he will come back to life.

In the meantime, while you wait for the day to come in which you will be with your son again, you can pray to Jehovah God for strength to continue dealing with the pain of having lost your son, and I’m sure He will listen to you and comfort you. (John 15: 16; Philippians 4: 7, 13)

I truly hope you find some relieve in reading these scriptures and knowing that God cares about you and how you feel and that vey soon your son will be here next to you again.

Sincerely,

Ana