MARIE JOSEPHINE DAHMS

MARIE JOSEPHINE DAHMS Dec. 11, 1924 - Dec. 14, 2016 In Loving Memory 9th Anniversary Romans 12:9-11 Don't just pretend to love others, really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection and take delight in honoring each other. Never be lazy but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically. To our beloved Marie Josephine: to sit down and ingeminate, on now the ninth anniversary of your untimely death... a beautiful spirit whose life was cut short by another's hand, is again one of the most difficult tasks to do and reiteratively face and relive. But it is in your honor Mom that we, your family must persist on, as you were eliminated to advocate for yourself or pierce the silence of your taken voice. As forever joint advocates, the radar of the law and us are here to ensure and safeguard that justice carries forward, as this crime has no statute of limitations on this Earth nor especially kneeling at the foot of God. We get but one opportunity a year to open that forever wound in writing, feeling naked, as one does in a dream. But this isn't a dream we lived; this was a nightmare. A true nightmare that our beloved Marie Josephine's life was robbed. Our images and heartbreak of gruesome realities are only on this one day "mettere da parte" to remember the priceless simplicities of a beautiful soul and the rich life you lead with grace, love, integrity, boundless work ethic, kindness and the joy of being so sweetly mischievous and what was most important to you - the precious gift of exciting adventures with your 3 grandchildren who thought of you as their very own Peter Pan. And how many people can do the New York Times crossword puzzle and get it right, each and every week! But you were taken in a blink from us on what was supposed to be a normal day. It is impossible to overestimate the repercussions. This Earth is a limited universe, but there are no limitations of Devine Retribution. Even with your precious season of summer long gone, the heat of the sun lingers long after the fast rays of summer sunsets have left the sky. It is there within that warmth that we sit at night and look up seeing the stars pulsing one after another emerging until the sky is full, yet the heat remains. You are one of those stars and warmth for us. A bright glow of memories to lighten the darkness and your now gone loving arms are our warm blanket from the cold grip of grief. We ask ourselves - "What is it that we have that the person that took your life doesn't?" The answer is LOVE. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor the lack of faith... it is the price of love. The forever love you have for us, your husband, your parents and your sisters. But you, who took her life, never had her love. With her last vestige of consciousness, all alone, Marie Josephine felt all our love while taking her last breath on that day of sorrow, which vanished once Our Lord brought her home. But for us left behind the way you were taken and what you meant to us leaves us with a pain and loss that cracks you open with an ugly scar within our hearts. True grief inhabits you and makes a home within your soul. Your immense inner strength and indomitable will during trying times, you taught us and told us that we are made of magic and resilience. So, we too will heal, but we will never be the same. There's only one person who knows the deeds they've done and didn't do. Images they must see in the morning, at night and that specter their dreams. Because salvation is only by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. We will never let you be forgotten Steadfastly in our hearts you will remain Your Beloved True Family Colossians 325