Sad News

Oh @Decadian

I am sorry to read of the loss of your dear friend. May he rest in peace. Hugs to you my friend xxoo

Thanks so much @BlueBay and @pip

The best I could do for my friend's family was to leave a message on his mobile phone - hoping that someone in his family would read how highly I thought of him and what a fine man he was

He was a member of the Website I left in the United States - and he tried to get me to stay - but I could not remain a member there under the circumstances - which is a great pity

But it means a lot that people here are supportive - I feel rather shaken up since I had a text from a mutual friend telling me that my friend has died

Many thanks

Decadian

Thanks @utopia

Yes - he was suffering - I had sent him a couple of email - but I knew he couldn't reply

We all have to go and this man had some kind of light - apart from his being in pain and having strokes he was too young - about my age

And I am a Believerd - I believe in the Special Place too - though I have no idea at all what it will be like

Decadian

Hi @Former-Member

I do believe in Eternity - we all die and I can't see all those souls with all the experience being wasted

I will not be going to my friend's funeral - he is in the United States - and I don't even know his address -

At times when I felt sorry for myself with my memories of my adopted son he was someone I could always talk too - he had adopted children too - and always wrote back the best messages

On-line friendships are so valuable - we can share things with people we are not likely to ever meet - we can be more open with the really painful parts of our lives - and this is what it was like with me and my friend - I met him in the website I left some months ago and got a text this afternoon from a mutual friend

So I can pray - I do believe that when we don't know how to pray in certain circumstances - or what to pray - the Spirit prays for us - and He will tonight and tomorrow and for all the time I do not know about

Decadian

Thanks for that message @pip

I never met my on-line friend - yet in truth - we know so much about our on-line friends

The friends I have here in the Forum Family share so much of themselves - as do I - it is a very new way of knowing people - keeping in touch etc. It takes a short time to write an email or a Facebook message - we have the time to read what is written and respond - taking time to think of the right words

We did have a special bond and so - with those special memories and in the special place he has in my life I will remember him - I am not in the habit of returning to the old website though I can read from the outside - I may learn something about his funeral there

I feel wiped out thsi morning - really tired - though I slept well

Thanks again Pip

Decadian