In Loving Memory Of PAUL L. SOUCIE Aug. 4, 1953 – April 5, 1996 (Good Friday, 1996) When We Lose Someone When we lose someone we love, it seems that time stands still, especially when it is so sudden and unexpected. What moves through us is a silence…a quiet sadness…a longing for one more day together…one more chance to say “I Love You”…one more hug to give and receive. And we wonder, how this thread that holds us all to life can be so thin and fragile. We may not understand why you left this earth so soon or why you left us before we were ready to say good-bye. But, little by little, we begin to remember not just that you died, but that you lived. And that life gave us memories too fulfilling to forget. They are gifts we will guard and treasure forever. Paul, it has been ten years and the events of the Good Friday evening still all seem so surreal. We are left to ponder that what if’s, that what should have been’s and the what will never be’s. There will never be anything that will reach our level of sadness that will forever be a part of our lives. No amount of emotion or word will alter the heartbreaking fact that you were taken from this Earth so tragically. So, grieve for awhile, we must, until one day we find the courage to accept that the living aren’t to understand death, only to celebrate life, and to remember that the only realdeath is in forgetting. Paul, we will never forget. We will bless our memories of you with our heart and know that you are always with us. Though we can’t see or touch you, we will always know you are near and if we listen with our heart, we will softly hear your love around us and that one day, that one sweet day, we will see you again and receive the answers and the justice that faith alone sustains us for now. Love, Carol, Ryan and Ashley I don’t know why you had to leave, but time has taught me that you are now free. From a better place, a life more wonderful, I believe you continue to help those left behind to understand our pain and grow beyond by remaining among us, living within us, and eternally loving us. No quote, poem, or passage can sum up what I have been left without or bring back ten missed years of laughs, tears and growth beyond my years. But I am loved and I have learned, so there is no more that I could ask for. I miss you and love you, Ashley
PAUL L. SOUCIE
