Rest well Cousin....

04/07/1960- 05-27/2008

The Dash Between The Dates

Grave side services were over now.
Everyone had left and I was alone.
I began to read the names and dates
Chiseled here and there on every stone.

The name showed whether it was Mom or Dad,
Or daughter or baby son.

The dates were different, the amount the same,
There were two dates on every one.

It was then that I noticed something
Just a simple line.
It was the dash between the dates,
And placed there, it stood for time.

All at once it dawned on me,
How important that little line!
The dates placed there belong to God,
But the line in yours and mine.

It's God who gives this precious life,
And it's He who takes away;
But the line between He gives to us
To do with what we may.

We know He's written the first date down
Of each and every one;
And we're sure the hands will write again,
For the last date has to come.

The hands will write the last date down
Quite soon, perhaps, for some;
But upon the line between my dates and yours,
I trust He'd write, "Well done, well done!"

By Linda Ellis

[This poem was read at my Son Bryan's funeral and it made me feel warmth]




My Cousin Sandra Mattox passed away the 27 Th. of May of Cancer. I will miss her and remember all the good times we had as Children. She was 48. She had Children and a Sister and 2 Brothers..... Her Father, My Uncle Jim passed away a few years ago. My Heart goes out to her Mother, my Aunt Beula. I know the pain of a loss of a child no matter what the age.
Go rest high on that mountain Sandra, I love you........