Nan always made me smile everytime i saw her. She made me appreciate my family, forget any worries every time she gave me that welcoming hug of hers. i will miss her but will always smile everytime her name is brought up!!
My deepest condolences. May these few words from the Holy Scriptures bring you comfort in your time of grief...
John 11:32-45
32 And so Mary, when she arrived where Jesus was and caught sight of him, fell at his feet, saying to him: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping and the Jews that came with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and became troubled; 34 and he said: “Where have YOU laid him?” They said to him: “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus gave way to tears. 36 Therefore the Jews began to say: “See, what affection he used to have for him!” 37 But some of them said: “Was not this [man] that opened the eyes of the blind man able to prevent this one from dying?”
38 Hence Jesus, after groaning again within himself, came to the memorial tomb. It was, in fact, a cave, and a stone was lying against it.39 Jesus said: “TAKE the stone away.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: “Lord, by now he must smell, for it is four days.”40 Jesus said to her: “Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Therefore they took the stone away. Now Jesus raised his eyes heavenward and said: “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 True, I knew that you always hear me; but on account of the crowd standing around I spoke, in order that they might believe that you sent me forth.” 43 And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Laz´a·rus, come on out!” 44The [man] that had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his countenance was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them: “Loose him and let him go.”
45 Therefore many of the Jews that had come to Mary and that beheld what he did put faith in him;
Please go to the following link for more information regarding the Hope expressed in this passage
http://www.watchtower.org/e/200809/article_01.htm
Nan was an angel from heaven,
God sent us all down to share,
He gave us the chance to love her,
And feel the comfort of having her there.
He gave us a gift more valuable,
Than diamonds, silver or gold,
He gave us the loveliest angel of all,
To cherish and to hold.
God felt our pain in taking her,
We would forgive in time he knew,
And accept that our angel,
Had done all she came to do.
She had found the other half of her,
Loved everyone endlessly,
Watched them grow and fall inlove,
A nan to all she was so proud to be.
Her family grew larger each year,
And each she loved so much,
And so when God came to take her home,
She wasn't in a rush.
She showed us all her strength and love,
By fighting hard to stay,
So God sent down, those she'd loved and lost,
To show her it was ok.
And as we cry at saying goodbye,
There are those beyond sight but near,
Our loved ones who are
already home,
Will be shouting, "look, she's here"
So let us all smile and wipe our tears,
And rejoice that we knew her at all,
For as a gift God lent us,
The loveliest angel of all.
