JanG - You're a Legend!

by Beck_Melbourne 82 Replies latest jw friends

  • freeman
    freeman

    Don't know what to say. She has helped MANY and she will be missed.

    Rest in peace JanG

    Freeman

  • jst2laws
    jst2laws

    She was an early influence on me. One of the first to cause me look into to the truth about the truth.

    I hope her surviving family will know how many people she helped. We will miss her.

    Jst2laws

  • outnfree
    outnfree

    ((((((((((JanG's family, friends, and all those who mourn her))))))))))

    I am sorry to hear of her passing. A true benefactress for so many!

    outnfree

  • patio34
    patio34

    It was a privilege to have gotten acquainted with Jan.

    She offered so much assistance to us leaving the JWs. At one time I was seeing a therapist and he enjoyed reading some of the articles of hers that I would pass along to him.

    My condolences to her family.

    Pat

  • El Kabong
    El Kabong

    RIP Sister Jan

  • bigboi
    bigboi

    From what I've heard of her here she was always ready to help others and seemed to be very highly respected and trusted. A real workhorse for those dealing with cult issues.

    She will be missed. My sincerest condolences to her and her family.

  • ballistic
    ballistic

    I didn't know Jan very well, so I'm just signing in to say how when this comes as such a shock to complete strangers such as myself, that I really feel for the family and hope they draw stregnth from their beliefs.

  • Beck_Melbourne
    Beck_Melbourne

    I have printed this off and will include it with my card and flowers which I will send today on behalf of the board. Hopefully someone will read some of the kind thoughts and fond memories that we all have of Jan at her funeral.

    Funeral details will be published in the Brisbane Courier Mail when available.

    ~Beck~

  • Brymichmom
    Brymichmom

    I just returned last night from the PA convention to find this out early this morning. As I checked my Yahoo mail, I also found she had sent me a poem called "The Power of One". It's like her last communication to all of us with her last wish on how she wants us to carry on without her.

    I never met Jan personally, and I'm grieved that I won't have the chance to meet her here on earth. I do look forward to seeing her in heaven someday. May she be at rest and at peace. I wish only the best to her family and her survivors who will miss her. I'm so sorry that she is gone--what a loss! Jan definitely was a legend!

    Cynthia

  • Cassiline
    Cassiline

    For JanG, who will be missed. ((((((((Thanks Beck.))))))))))

    (((((((((((JanG's family))))))))

    Jordan's Song

    A vane turns as young leaves begin to rustle,
    a limb gently bends..
    I remember back to when I was ten
    sitting with my grandpa on the front porch swing
    "Another traveler just past by," he says.
    Then gently, he draws on his blackened hickory pipe
    and leans back with a bit of a smile.
    "Travelers?" I ask.
    "I see nothing but fields and blue skies.
    Grandpa, what do you mean?"
    He tells me to shut my eyes
    and only listen as he softly begins,
    "Some men see only with their eyes and others,
    with their hearts.
    But I was only ten when my grandfather taught me to see within my
    eyes.
    So shut your eyes and open your mind now."
    Feel the wind, how it blows;
    do you ever wonder from where it comes,
    or to where it goes.
    Who starts the wind, and why?
    Some are just a gentle breeze,
    others uproot mighty trees.
    It lifts the birds into the sky
    then, it stops as if to die.
    See the wind against the sky...
    another traveler just past by.
    So, now I see though within my eyes.
    The wind, it blows with each passing of a soul.
    On angels' wings I see the breeze and, I feel the air
    of a travelers' hand gently through my hair.
    "Oh Grandpa, I see, I really do!"
    The wind, it lives.
    It lifts the birds and moves great trees.
    And it even stops
    then, it kisses me and whispers in my ear...
    "Remember me when you feel a breeze,
    a vane that turns, the rustling leaves.
    I'm with you still, I always will."
    ...another travelers just past by.

    And my favorite..........

    Do not stand at my grave and weep
    I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow.
    I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
    I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning's hush
    I am the swift uplifting rush. Of quiet birds in circled flight.
    I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and
    cry;
    I am not there. I did not die.

    Edited by - cassiline on 22 October 2002 20:22:9

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