Blake: losing you so young is a tragedy of the very worst kind. Your family and friends will never be able to watch you grow older or share any more milestones with you. Your young nieces and nephews have lost their “Uncle Blake.” However you will never be forgotten. I will never stop speaking about you and sharing my memories of you with my children. I will keep your picture in my home so we can always see that beautiful smile. In the face of this terrible disease you forced us to rise to your level of courage and strength. While I could hardly bear to lose you, being there to help you cross over was terrible and painful, but a privilege.
When I lost my brother I discovered a new devotion to those around me. To my family and my children, I may not always express it but you are more precious to me than you will ever know. To my dear friends and my loving husband Steve, thank you for enabling me to go my brother as he lay dying. It was then that my ties to you bound tighter and I will never let that go.
When we lose someone too soon we have to learn something from it. I have chosen to teach my children to fight Sarcoma. For his birthday, my 6 year old son Jake asked his friends to give to the Sarcoma Foundation of America in lieu of gifts. My daughter Riann is planning to do the same when she turns 8 in March. Brett will choose his tribute to Uncle Blake in time. By doing this every year, not only will they learn the satisfaction of giving but also they will be fighting the disease that took their Uncle Blake’s life. Something good has to come out of this.
God looked around his garden and He found an empty place.
And then He looked down upon the Earth, and saw your tired face.
He put His arms around you, and lifted you to rest.
God's garden must be beautiful, He always takes the best.
He knew that you were suffering, He knew you were in pain,
He knew that you would never get well on earth again.
He saw the road was getting rough, and the hills were hard to climb, So He closed your weary eyelids, and whispered "peace be thine."
It broke our hearts to lose you. but you didn't go alone,
For part of us went with you, the day God called you home.
. . . . Laurie Cadkin Newland
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Laurie, your poem brought me to tears. We hope that your pain is eased with your efforts to fight sarcoma. You are the best and we love you.
Jackie & Dad xoxo
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