Listening Hearts (2008

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We're a Gathering of Bereaved Mothers... Who have children "gone before"... We get together to listen to one another, encourage one another, share ideas, and talk about our kids in Heaven...

We listen and watch... daily...

moment by moment, with our hearts...

Thank you for visiting our site... Please feel free to light a Memorial Candle, on the right, for your Loved one...

submit your child's picture and/or a poem you have written. You may also request a copy of our newsletter by clicking on the "contact" option in the top right-hand corner of the site.

“The soil from our memories is sprinkled with seeds of LOVE and watered by our tears of LOSS. Our pain is warmed with the sunshine of fellowship as we wait and watch for tender young sprouts of HOPE for a new normal. We will continue to listen to our hearts and the hearts of each other as we travel this journey together.”

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We invite you to visit http://opentohope.com for articles on loss & grieving.

Also, Check us out on Facebook...

just Search for "Listening Hearts"...

Our Next Meeting will be on...
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Saturday, December 5, 3-5pm

Baptist Eye Institute Conference Room

2020 Kay Street

Knoxville, TN 37920
Map and Directions in Tributes Section

All moms that have suffered the loss of a child are invited no matter the child's age or cause of death....

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No one should travel this journey alone. Join us as we help each other find ways to carry the pain of this loss and the joy of the love for our child in the same heart.

We cry, laugh, make memorial crafts, eat and talk about our children as we share our journey and the forever love we have in our hearts.

We encourage you to bring pictures, songs, and poems to share with the group.

For information, call Katie 865-773-6672

April Meeting

Each mom with the flowers she made for their son's memorial markers.

Thank you Ruby, Wade's mom.

June Meeting

We made memorial license tags.

August 2009 Meeting

At this meeting we each made memorial necklaces.

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You may read our mission in the "His Timeline" Section, by clicking the Tab above... Also our Group Invocation is posted there as well....

Let's Listen...

Our children "Gone before"...

We miss our loved ones with every beat of our hearts!

Debra's son,

Clint, May 1985 - August 2005

http://clint-reagan.memory-of.com

Katie's son,

Gabriel, April 22, 1981 - August 14, 2006

http://gabrielmiller.memory-of.com

Pam's son,

Eric, November 19, 1975 - July 22, 2004

Scarlett's son,

Sean, October 24, 1988 - March 10, 2007

http://seanpowell.memory-of.com

Pam's son,

Alan, November 22, 1982 - February 25,2007

Janice's son,

Byron, Jr. May 14, 1983 - September 20, 2006

http://janiceclay.myphotoalbum.com

Ruby's son,

Wade, April 21, 1983 - July 18, 2005

Karen's son,

Colt, April 17, 1984 - June 20, 2006

http://myspace.com/methadonecoltportefield

Reneau's son,

Carson, December 31, 1990 - December 2, 2008

Debra's son
Bradley, April 2, 1988-November 8, 2005

Debbie's Son

Zachary, November 22, 1983-May 26, 2006

Jane's Son
Chad, February 27, 1984-March 16, 2009

Other Beautiful Angels

Missy's sons

Lance, March 1989-August 2005

Zacchary, December 1986-April 2007

Jackie's son

Jason, June1979 - September 2007

Judy's son

Curtis, October 1989 - April 2008

Connie's son

Brandon, December 1984 - April 2008

Diane's son

David, February 1964-February 2008

Cathy's son

David, May 1973 - April 2006

Julie's son

Joel, October 1988 - August 2007

Kristen
December 1987 - September 2007

We are the Rememberers,

The People left behind,

to keep the one's who've gone before,

Alive in Heart and Mind...

The People left to cherish,

and preserve a Legacy,

Yes, we're the Rememberers,

and We will always be.......

Be Sure to click on one of the tabs above,

to view the "Tributes and Condolences" section, and leave a message, tell us what has helped you along this journey, if you wish...

also the "His Legacy" tab,

write a note in this section, also, if you'd like...

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His legacy

HARMD billboard

Tribuite to Eric
TRIBUTE TO ERIC WHO BECAME AN ANGEL AT AGE 28. He would have been 34 on November 19:

We remember ...

1. Your smile and your laughter.
2. Your love of sports.
3. Telling me you were proud that I came to all your practices and games from T-ball through high school baseball.
4. Your taking me to baseball basketball and football games -- just you and me -- as a special treat. You even attended tennis events with me especially the one at which Billie Jean King (my idol) appeared though it wasn't your favorite sport to watch. You just liked to play it.
5. Your friends to whom you were "ring leader" for excursions.
6. Your friends spending the night at our house sleeping on couches and sleeping bags so you could get an early start to Cedar Pointe.
7. The quality of your friends and how I loved that many of them called me "Mom".
8. Taping off the "strike zone" on our metal garage door letting you practice pitching literally for hours at a time.
9. Your being "spoiled rotten" by your brothers and sister and your mutual adoration throughout your life.
10. Your love and lack of fear of water from baths when you were little to the Gulf of Mexico swimming as an adult. This was not always good.
11. Your four special friends from fourth grade on: Tony Larry Andy and you. Through thick and thin friends until death.
12. How proud and happy we all were when you were born and then how supportive everyone was throughout your life regarding your immune deficiency.
13. For the myriad ways you fought your disease from birth on.
14. Your beautiful big blue eyes and deep dimples who everyone embarrassed you with their commenting on them.
15. Your affinity for cats: Stormy Magnificat Cimmaron CATillac Tigger BillyGene and Griffey (named for Ken Griffey) and whom you rescued from a busy road where someone had left him.
16. Your special relationship with your Uncle Meredith and his family.
17. How you loved to play pool with Grandpa Wolf when we came to Knoxville to visit them.
18. The picture of you in your high school baseball uniform that you laid in Granpa's hands in his casket.
19. The pictures I have of just you and me hugging and smiling back at the camera.
20. Golf -- it was so good for you. You couldn't get enough of it and played it several times a week until your date with the angels. In fact the last known picture of you was taken of you and Scott sitting at the clubhouse waiting for a golf tournament you had entered to start.
21. You were so proud of your Walled Lake Central Varsity Jacket with letters in golf baseball and swimming (as the team manager).
22 How your friends came from Detroit to visit you several times. You loved showing them Houston and Galveston. They came seven of them to your fundraiser.
23. How you danced with me at your wedding. Your friends gathered around and hugged us both. Then as I left the floor his friends all started applauding and you said it was for me and you were grinning from ear to ear. What a special moment.
24. As you stood in the church waiting for Jennifer to walk down the aisle you turned looked at me and mouthed "I love you Mom."
25. When you and your friends got too old for trick or treating you didn't miss a beat just started giving halloween parties ... any excuse to dress up and act "silly."
26. Your high school graduation party under a big tent in our back yard and all the scrumptions (catered) food. You and your friends had so much fun ... it was worth all the work!
27. How good you were with all your "cousins by the dozens". They all adored you. Maggie even announced over Christmas dinner one year that she was going to marry you. You said that "would save you a lot of time and money."
28. We remember especially your SOUL. Your GIVING NATURE. Your HELPING ANYONE who needed it which we had no inkling of until your fundraiser when people of all ages came to tell us of things you had done for them and your refusal to accept anything in return.

In Loving Memory of Zach

My Beautiful Son was so wonderful and so much fun. We miss you terribly!

Zachary Ryan Griffin
11/22/83-05/26/06

Soggy Pillow
Soggy Pillow

Each day is a kindly reminder of my loss. It appears no one recognizes this fact but me. Why does this mother continually remember each expression on his face the quick cut of his eyes the shape of his fingers the cowlick in his hair and the way he said MOM. The memories never end… Each day my loss becomes greater my tears heavier than the day before…The pain easily takes my breath away…and ..yet I still exist. My heart forever broken my dreams forever gone….Yet my life still belongs here. So another day I pretend to be moving forward but my reality is miserable agony. I dress open the door and escape to the world that surrounds me work smile be kind and loving to others…and at the end of each day……………………..my head rests upon my Soggy Pillow.

Debra Wilson Prosise
09/22/2009

Another Year by Pam Johnson

Another Year

I’m missing you another year
More than you will ever know
I miss seeing your beautiful smile
I miss you saying Mama "chill out"
I feel your presence deep in my heart
I hope that you will know that
As your birthdays come and go
I'm missing you another year.
More than you will ever know.
Happy 27th Birthday!

by Pam Johnson

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This memorial website was created by KatieHelms DebraReagan on 08/07/2008.
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Sponsorship

The hosting of this website is sponsored by Katie Helms and Debra Reagan in Memory of our beautiful sons, Gabriel Miller and Clint Reagan...

Memorial Candles

	Pam/Dick Wolf lit a candle on 11/19/2009: "Another year loved, another year missed. You are forever in our hearts. From the WHOLE FAMILY."

	Elizabeth Manning lit a candle on 11/02/2009: "Rick, I love and miss you more than words can say. I look forward to the day we are united in heaven. I love you"

	Lori Coniglio lit a candle on 11/02/2009: "to my beautiful son Jim. we miss you so much. shine your light in heaven for us all to see"

	Scarlett Sean's Mom lit a candle on 11/02/2009: "To all our boys who are now smiling down on us from heaven, May they comfort each others as we do the same. xoxoxo"

	Debbie Chad's Mom lit a candle on 10/10/2009: "Death cannot keep us apart, Chad because you are always in my heart"

	Debra Loving Our Guys lit a candle on 10/10/2009: "The heart sees what the eyes cannot."

	Mom lit a candle on 10/07/2009: "John, my precious son, I miss you, I love you. Sing with the angels, roonie poot-poot."

	Scarlett-Sean's Mom Powell lit a candle on 10/05/2009: "To all our angels, May you feel our love & know we are thinking of you often. Sending kisses to heaven."

	Scarlett Sean's Mom Powell lit a candle on 09/15/2009: "To all our angels, We miss you beyond words and love you with all our being. May God carry us until we reunited. xoxo"

	Pam And Dick Wolf lit a candle on 09/11/2009: "For Eric and ALL our angels let's remember 9/11 with lover for all those innocent angels."

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