Thank You  / Cheryl Radford -Jeremy's Mum (Connected by Angels )

Julie, thank you so much for your thoughtful Tribute for Jeremy's Birthday. I appreciate the Candles that allow my broken and bleeding heart to feel joy.

I remain ever grateful to the friendship of my Angel Family Friends.

Close

Loving you ... remembering you .... missing you ..  / Mum
Close

Happy Birthday Joel  / Cheryl Radford -Jeremy's Mum (Connected by Angels )

Close

Happy Birthday, Joel seemed special!  / Krista Cousin 2angel Kelsey Lindberg (none)

I didnt know your son Joel, Infact im not even sure how I stumbled across his site, I was reading your story just getting lost in the emotions. 

I had the tv on with an old episode of the season House playing when on a piano(in the show) someone started to play happy birthday....little did I know it is your sons birthday today!

He must be very special and I can tell he is greatly missed and loved.

I am so sorry for your loss. Your in my prayers!

Krista

cousin to angel Kelsey Lindberg

Close

Happy Birthday  / Ben (Brother)
Happy Birthday Joel... I know your having a massive party in heaven today, with all your new friends. I wish we were celebrating together though. Im listening to all your favorite music at the moment... Today is really hard for me bro... I remember when you came to visit Clint and I in Melbourne, on your 18th Birthday, we had heaps of fun, but i completely took it for granted and thought we would have many more years of hanging out together. Now i just have those precious memories and i will forever hold them close. Love and Miss you heaps. Ben Close

Happy Birthday to our Beautiful Boy  / Mum
Close

Happy Birthday in Heaven Joel  / Cheryl Radford -Jeremy's Mum (Connected by Angels )

Close

Peace & Love  / Cheryl Radford -Jeremy's Mum (Connected by Angels )

Close

Joel -  / I Thought I Saw You Today
Close

With Hope  / A. Steven Curtis Chapman Poem

This is not atall
How we thought it was supposed to be.
We had so many plans for you.
We had so many dreams.
And now you’ve gone away
And left us with the memories of your smile.
And nothing we can say
And nothing we can do
Can take away the pain, the pain of losing you, but
We can cry with hope, we can say goodbye with hope
‘Cause we know our goodbye is not the end.
And we can grieve with hope ‘cause we believe with hope,
There’s a place where we’ll see your face again…

- Steven Curtis Chapman
Close

Dear Joel  / Mum


I will see you again, in the fullness of time,
You will reach out your hand, I will take it in mine,
As together we walk, all the sorrow filled years,
Will dissolve as a cloud, in the midst of our tears.

I will see you again, we will laugh as before,
I will kiss your dear face, as I pass through the door,
To a place where you are, and a bright shining sun,
Will assure my glad heart, that my life has begun.

I will see you again, though the journey be long,
I will try for your sake, to sing some kind of song,
And for you, I'll endeavour to live through my pain,
Till the moment, dear child, when I see you again.

'For all our Lost Children" by Betty Kenna Close

Keeping the Memory of a Beautiful Soul  / Debra Reagan Clint's Mom (angel mom and friend )

 

 

TIME

Time cannot steal the treasures
That we carry in our hearts.
Nor ever dim the shining thoughts
Our cherished past imports
For the memories of the ones we loved
Still cast a gentle glow,
To grace our days and light our paths
Wherever we may go.
Author Unknown

Close

Thinking of Joel  / Debra Reagan Clint's Mom (another angel mom and friend )

Native American Prayer

I give you this
One thought to keep.
I am with you still.
I do not sleep...
I am the soft stars
That shine at night...
Do not think of me as gone
I am with you still,
In each new dawn...

Julie and Family,

Joel is with all of you always and forever until you meet again.

Big Hugs to All,

Debra

Close

Angels are always near  / Mum



Given to me by my friend Leesa. Close

If Tears Could Build a Stairway  / Mum

One of Joel's favourite songs was 'Stairway to Heaven'.
This is our version (author unknown)

If tears could build a stairway
And memories were a lane
We would walk right up to Heaven
And bring you back again

No farewell words were spoken
No time to say goodbye
You were gone before we knew it
And only God knows why

Our hearts still ache in sadness
And secret tears still flow
What it meant to lose you
No one will ever know

But now we know you want us
To mourn for you no more
To remember all the happy times
Life still has much in store

Since you’ll never be forgotten
We pledge to you today
A hallowed place within our hearts
Is where you’ll always stay

Close

GENTLE BOY  / Mum

This one's for the gentle boy
Who wrestles with his pain,
His easy-bruising, tender heart,
and ever-active brain.

He feels much more than others do,
And tries real hard to hide,
With laughter or bravado,
The gentle boy inside.

With wit and style and artifice
His secret's kept so well.
Who dreams the brave facade you see
Conceals some private hell?

Meanwhile, the brutes live on and on
Their unexamined lives.
The low, the clueless, and the cruel,
The sluggish idiot thrives.

To fill the world with empty talk
And greed and hate and noise,
To breed, carouse, and make life hell,
For all the gentle boys.

Some gentle boys grow heartsick
And so tired of this charade.
They blow themselves right off the earth,
Or fight, then fail, then fade.

If you should love a gentle boy
There's little you can do.
If he decides his time has come,
He'll leave the earth and you.

He cannot see that if he goes
You'll never fill that space.
You'll spend your whole life searching
For that laugh, those eyes, that face.

How can the gentle boy not know
You love him beyond death,
You'd help him any way you could,
Unto your dying breath?

SOMEDAY WHEN JUSTICE REIGNS ON EARTH
WE ALL WILL GREET, WITH JOY
A WORLD WHERE IT WON'T HURT SO MUCH
TO BE A GENTLE BOY.

Author Unknown Close

Prayer of Faith  / Mum
We trust that beyond absence
there is a presence.

That beyond the pain
there can be healing.

That beyond the brokenness
there can be wholeness.

That beyond anger
there may be peace.

That beyond the hurting
there may be forgiveness.

That beyond the silence
there may be the word.

That beyond the word
there may be understanding.

That through understanding
there is love.

-Author Unknown
Close

I'M THERE INSIDE YOUR HEART  / JOEL

Right now I'm in a different place,
And though we seem apart,
I'm closer than I ever was ...
I'm there inside your heart.

I'm with you when you greet each day
And while the sun shines bright,
I'm there to share the sunsets, too ...
I'm with you every night.

I'm with you when the times are good,
To share a laugh or two,
And if a tear should start to fall ...
I'll still be there for you.

And when that day arrives
That we no longer are apart,
I'll smile and hold you close to me ...
Forever in my heart.

Author Unknown Close

To My Brother Joel  / Ben McGregor (Brother)

Joel,

I still cant describe the pain and sadness in my heart, that i feel, when i think of you not being here. Each day bring’s a new struggle and although i go about my daily task's, i am not the same. The pain is still so unbelievably real and the sadness still so so low it feel's as if im still falling...

Whenever i hear a new song on the radio that i know you would like, i shed a tear... Whenever i take an artistic photo, i think of how much you would have appreciated it... Whenever i see an art house movie, i think of you and how i wish so badly that you were sitting next to me... So many things in my day to day life remind me of you...

I remember when we were much younger and mum and dad had gone away for the weekend. I had planed a party and i was worried that you would tell or that you would be annoying to my friends. How stupid i was to think this at the time. Not only did you keep our secret, but everyone loved you and thought you were so cool. We both had heaps of fun and from that day forth we were so much closer and we both shared our secrets... Just one of so many fond memories of being your brother...

It hurts so much to think that there will be no, new memories, made with you in them Joel. It just means that i will forever hold and treasure all the memories i have, so much closer to my heart and be forever thankful that i had those times.

I love and miss you so much brother,
Thinking of you constantly,
Ben

 

 

 

 

Close

The Everlasting Arms  / Mum

Sent to me by Debra Reagan who lost her son Clint, 2 1/2  years ago aged 20.

Bill Ritter: (segment of the “Healing the Grieving Heart” internet talk show)

I was into the second year of the grief process. It was an evening I was sitting on my deck overlooking Grand Traverse Bay in Northern Michigan. I was reading and thinking and just kind of chilling out looking at the water, and I suddenly found myself thinking about little kids, mine, yours, anybody’s little kids, and how all little kids like to test themselves by jumping from high places. There they are. They’re standing on the edge of a sofa or a fence post or a stepladder, maybe even a garage roof. Their knees are bent. Their shoulders are harnessed. They’re poised and they’re ready to jump except they don’t jump or they don’t jump until they first capture your eye and your ear. 'Catch me Daddy' is what they say. Come over here and catch me when I jump. And you move closer to them preparing to do just that so they do and you do. All things considered, it’s a rather remarkable arrangement, but what happens if some day they jump and you can’t catch them because your arms aren’t long enough, strong enough, quick enough, or near enough?

And the reality is I couldn’t catch Bill either. But then again, he didn’t tell me he was going to jump or wait for me to get my arms in position. When I thought about that on my deck at sunset, I cried. And then I looked down at the book I was reading and saw that the biblical verse that had triggered that line of thinking in the first place came from Deuteronomy. The eternal God is your dwelling place and underneath is the everlasting arms.

And I realized that even though I missed Bill and that I failed to catch him and continue to miss Bill and that I no longer have him, my arms are not the only arms. My arms are not the final arms, which means that where Bill fell is not where he lays.

Close