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My Lenten Gospel: Death of a Friend
Author Dr. Virginia M. Kimball
Date 3/13/2009

Her death came at three o’clock

as she prayed the chaplet

of divine mercy

Her bed was transitory

decked with disease

and she waited

When a saint passes, touching

our days, we pause

and wonder

A gift for Lent this death

as God’s dear woman left

but sill stays

She lingers in our memory,

teaches us living

in her demise

She weaves hope and joy

on the bed she died

before our eyes

Death is a sleep in her

bright eye of faith -

sealed, swollen

She begged her Mother

waiting and smiling

for her return

A rosary in frail bruised hand

Presence in her heart

life forever won

Glory in a Lenten lesson

Christ’s victory:

longed for end

I’ll always remember Jean

in this March gospel

Love coming during mourning

God’s Light in a dark day

Jean lives Life forever …

Death by death destroyed

and Christ the only way.

May her memory be eternal!

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