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Worldwide Candle Lighting 2007
Tacoma, Wa.
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What the press said about the candle lighting in 2007
http://compassionatefriends.com/2007_WCL/Worldwide%20Candle%20Lighting%20News%20After%20Stories%20-%202007.htm
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Candles In The Night
I Will Light Candles
Lights Of Love
Light A Candle
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One Families
Experience
Patrick & Lisa McCarthy
Upon arrival we were greeted by one of the event
volunteers and she let us know what was available in the form of written
materials they had laid out on a table to help us with our grief during
the holiday season along with the refreshments that were for all, then
we were led to a separate table with Styrofoam stars and a clear plastic
cup affixed to the center of the star and a small tee candle in the cup.
We were told that the assorted materials on the table
were there for the loved ones to decorate their cup and star any way
that they would want in memory of a child lost.
The room had many people, some alone and some in
small groups.
Some were quiet as they decorated their stars and
others quietly cried, there was no one asking questions about another
ones loss and you could see the toll that grief had taken on each and
everyone there.
As we all quietly left the building we were each
given a glow in the dark wrist bracelet in different colors.
We made our way to a large fountain in the court yard
of the hospital and we all stood around this fountain in the cold and in
silence, another volunteer thank us for being there and read a short
story written by another grieving parent on the loss of their child.
Before the lighting of the candles a musician who had
lost his young daughter sang a song he had wrote in honor of his
daughter, it was a beautiful song.
There were two volunteers; one on each side of the
fountain and each took turns lighting a candle, they would light a
candle and hand it to the loved one who in turn would announce the name
of the child they had lost, then place the candle in the fountain, at
the moment the candle was placed into the fountain a volunteer would
strike a small brass bell in memory of a loved one lost. As we lit our
candles and announced her name I knew she was there with us, as I stood
holding my wife shaking from the cold I noticed how warm my wife was, at
that time I knew Danielle was there holding her mother and keeping her
warm.
As we both held each other I whispered in her ear
“Danielle’s Here” and she’s keeping you warm, she looked at me and said
“I know she is”
Once all of the candles were lit and placed in the
fountain a volunteer read a small poem as the musician played another
song on his guitar.
We were all invited to stay
as long as we would like at the fountain and we were all welcome back
into the room were we had started.
Slowly one by one the candles were removed by the
loved one and you could see the despair in their eyes and hear small
prayers said before they blew out the flame.
I wasn’t a stranger there; I was a father that had
lost his daughter 11 months prior.
My wife and I had a difficult time as the memories of
our daughter along with seeing all of the other grieving parents there
brought that intense pain of loss back to the day I heard she had died.
As
we departed from the fountain with our candles in hand I felt good, I
knew that I not only needed to light a candle for my daughter but to
light a candle for all of those children who have died.
We returned to the room that we had started in and as
we warmed ourselves we were asked by the volunteers if they could do
anything else for us.
Every volunteer there was a comfort for all that had
lost a child, I look forward to attending the candle lighting next year
and many years to come no matter where I may be.
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Candles flame in darkness,
Flicker, steadily glow,
Bring forth from shadows
And help to smooth me so.
My precious child, like the candles,
Gave my life true light.
I use the candle’s beacon
To connect us in the night
As I light the candles,
My wish and my request
Is that you’ll see my signal
And know my love’s expressed.
As your light joins my light,
Our worlds touch and flame.
As I snuff out the candles,
I softly say your name.
-Genesse
Bourdeau Gentry-
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Candles of joy despite all sadness
Candles of hope where despair
keeps watch,
Candles of courage for fears ever
present,
Candles of peace for
tempest-tossed days,
Candles of graces to ease heavy
burdens,
Candles of love to inspire all my
living,
Candles that will burn all the
year long.
-Howard Thurman-
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Lights of Love
Can you see our candles
Burning in the night?
Lights of love we send you
Rays of purest white
Children we remember
Though missing from our sight
In honor and remembrance
We light candles in the night
All across the big blue marble
Spinning out in space
Can you see the candles burning
From this human place?
Oh, angels gone before us
Who taught us perfect love
This night the world lights candles
That you may see them from above
Tonight the globe is lit by love
Of those who know great sorrow,
But as we remember our yesterdays
Let's light one candle for tomorrow
We will not forget,
And every year in deep
December On Earth we will light candles
As................we remember
Written by TCF Member Jacqueline Brown
For National Children's Memorial Day
Jacqueline
Brown
Peace
Valley TCF,
New Britain
PA
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Light a Candle
Light a candle for those we mourn.
Into a new life they will be born.
Do not look for them at the gravesite.
They are somewhere else radiating
their beautiful light.
They have gone to a new world where
there is no darkness, no pain.
Their light and essence will always
remain.
Light a candle for those who have left
this mortal place.
They are free to travel through time
and space.
When we think of them, they are near.
When we sit in a beautiful garden.
Their voices we hear.
When we listen to a divine symphony,
We close our eyes, their faces we see.
Light a candle for they have not
really gone.
With each flickering flame, in your
hearts they will always belong.
© A.Pell 24/08/2005
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