All I Remember: Chicken Soup for the Soul

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Hi again:

Thies is one that I know will touch your heart as it did mine

Love, Joanne

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> All I Remember

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> One day, while I was lying on a massage table in a

> dark, quiet room waiting for an appointment, a wave of

> longing swept over me. I checked to make sure I was awake

> and not dreaming, and I saw that I was as far removed from a

> dreamy state as one could possibly be. Each thought I had

> was like a drop of water disturbing a still pond, and I

> marveled at the peacefulness of each passing moment.

> Suddenly my mother's face appeared - my mother, as she

> had been before Alzheimer's disease had stripped her of her

> mind, her humanity, and 50 pounds. Her magnificent silver

> hair crowned her sweet face. She was so real and so close I

> felt I could reach out and touch her. I even smelled the

> fragrance of Joy, her favorite perfume. She seemed to be

> waiting and did not speak.

> I said, " Oh, Mother, I'm so sorry that you had to

> suffer with that horrible disease. "

> She tipped her head slightly to one side, as though to

> acknowledge what I had said about her suffering. Then she

> smiled - a beautiful smile - and said very distinctly, " But

> all I remember is love. " And she disappeared.

> I began to shiver in a room gone suddenly cold, and I

> knew in my bones that the love we give and receive is all

> that matters and is all that is remembered. Suffering

> disappears; love remains.

> Her words are the most important I have ever heard, and

> that moment is forever engraved on my heart.

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> By Bobbie Probstein

> from Condensed Chicken Soup for the Soul

> Copyright 1996 by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Patty

> Hansen

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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to

change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference