Dearest Students,
I have sad news today, from our classmate,
Mary Birdsong. Here is what she wrote:
"My dear, sweet, daughter-in-law, Tiffany, was
killed in a car crash last Wednesday (Feb. 6th).
She was by herself driving on the narrow, curvy,
hilly, two-lane highway out to their house at
Beaver lake, and went left of center at one of
the curves and hit a pick-up truck head-on, and
was killed instantly. The driver of the other
pick-up was life-flighted to the hospital and
survived.
Please ask the students in our school to keep us
in their prayers, and yours as well, Indira.
I remember when I first read your comment in your
email that you could see the possibility
of me making a book about Kahlan and her grandmother
(me). And it gives me goose bumps as I write this, because
I am an even bigger part of Kahlan's life, now that
she has lost her mother. Kahlan is just a little
over a year old now. As you know, she was born
Christmas Day 2011.”
Dear Mary Birdsong,
ReplyDeleteI will light a bee wax candel for you as a symbol of LIGHT and hope and caring. I will send you prayers
of comfort and safety.
Thank you for asking.
All Love to you
Your classmate
Monika
Dear Mary Birdsong,
ReplyDeletehere a quote by Walt Whitman:
"And I will show you that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future. And I will show you that whatever happens to anybody, it may be turned to beautiful results."
I send you strengthening and loving energy and know you are not alone!
With all my heart, Johanna
Dear Mary-Birdsong,
ReplyDeleteyou and your family have my love, my prayers. I am taking you into my prayers and sending love and light to you. May you be carried by love where there is no understanding.
I am with you in the heart
Petra
Dear Mary -Birdsong
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry for your loss.My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.love ursula
Dear Mary-Birdsong,
ReplyDeleteI feel with you and I pray for your family and especially for Kahlan.
It touches me - I woke up last night at 2 AM because I thought about loosing somebody and I went down to see if my daughter was coming home.
I lay my hands on you - one beneath your neck and the other on your chest and I breath with you.
All my love, dear Mary-Birdsong
from Antje
Dear MaryBirdsong,
ReplyDeletea candle is burning in my healing circle for you, your daughter in law, your grandchild, the person involved in the accidend and all the persons who are connected to you and them.
I will pray for all of you.
I wish you strength and courage for this passage of your path.
Belssings for you
Babra
Thank you all for your outpouring of love and compassion and comfort and for the candles, and prayers and healing hands and breathing with me and grieving with me. You are all very dear to me. I am sorry I have been so absent the last few months. I did not have a computer at home for several months. However my husband bought a laptop for us this weekend so now I can stay in touch better.
ReplyDeletePlease continue to send love and light to my son james and my granddaughter kahlan. Kahlan is grieving for her mother and is not eating as well as she normally does. she is feeling the sadness and grief in those around her. however starting tomorrow, while my son is in class during the day, one of their young married friends who LOVES children and is an afternoon nanny for some school age children, will be watching kahlan in her home. Her name is Sam and she is full of love and light and joy and I know it will be good for kahlan.
Thank you all again for your love and prayers. I am wanting to relocate to Rogers to be there for my son and for Kahlan. Would you please pray that I will find the right job in Rogers, AR soon?
I am Kahlan's second mother for now and she doesn't want me out of her sight when I am there taking care of her. I know she truly needs me now.
My son is a very attentive dad and I am so grateful for the blessing that they are to each other. He was already taking of her by himself several nights a week while tiffany was in nursing school. I am so glad he is used to having to give her a bath and feed her and put her to bed at night. But I know he is exhausted right now, and even tho they are the best medicine for each other they need my help.
Love to you all,
Mary Birdsong
Dear Mary Birdsong
ReplyDeleteI did not wrote to you until now, because I have no words for what happened to you.
I wish you strength and courage and hope that one day you can find the gift behind this tragedy.
I am with you with all my love
Ruth
Thank you for your post Ruth. Your words are perfect and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to update you that the baby is eating better. I told you of her new babysitter who is watching her while my son James is in class during the day, and that she is young and full of light and love and joy. Her name is Sam, she and her husband have been best friends of James for six or seven years now.
Last Tuesday was the first day the baby stayed with Sam. Sam loves to cook and made pancakes for she and the baby for breakfast and the baby ate three pancakes, and she started eating much better from then on.
Today the baby went with Sam to a nanny job she has two days a week where stays with a family of three children after school. When James got there this evening, the 5 year old girl was carrying the baby around and James said they both had huge smiles on their faces and were having the best time.
Sam's sister has a two year old boy, and the James and Kahlan spent last evening at their house and Kahlan and the little boy played and had a great time.
It is like a village of young people and their children are coming forward and caring for james and kahlan and sharing their love. James and I cried joyful tears when we talked about it tonight.
Thank you all for your prayers for us and your prayers for me to find a job in Rogers where they live.
I received news today that Mercy Hospital is actively considering me for a job I applied for and may be calling me in for an interview along with some other candidates. I had filled out an online application and I have no connections to anyone there, and did not have the name of any human resources person to contact, so did not know if I would ever hear anything. I was very encouraged today. Please continue to pray for me that I will get a job in Rogers. Rogers is 2 1/2 hours away from Broken Arrow where I live now. It is close enough that I can go there each weekend to help James and the baby, but I want to relocate there to be close by everyday, so she always knows she has grandma and grandpas house to come to, full of love and home cooked meals. :-)
Love to you all.
Mary Birdsongs
Dear Mary Birdsongs
ReplyDeleteDue to computer problems I could only read today about what had happened in your life. I am so touched and want to let you know that all my love, compassion and prayers are with you!
Thank you for sharing all this with us and asking for help and support!
We are all connected! They day before Judy said in her daily message that something tragic had happened in your life I felt very, very nervous, fearful and worried... I did not know why - no obvious reason for that - so I checked with my kids, whether everything was fine!
...The next day I knew where this came from....
So I hope you will be carried by the support of all of us, by the light and love we are all sending to you!
All love,
Sandra
Sandra,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your sweet words. I am so grateful too for the connection that we all have in the school with each other and the angels and Indira. I am amazed at how strong the connection is. You all have been a great source of comfort and strength and compassion and healing for me. Thank you all.
Love,
Mary Birdsong