Not a normal time you would think of if someone asked you to pick a random time. Usually I am asleep at 4am, but this fateful morning for one of my classmates, I was woken up by my coach's 3-yr-old son just long enough to look at the clock.
Shannon Dwyer, one of my classmates, had graduated only 2 months before she died tragically in a car accident. She was the person you would always remember as wearing a smile or telling a joke. She was on the softball team and was a good student as well. Now, I was not really good friends with her, which is probably why I can write down the experience the town of Scituate had to face so soon after it occurred. Shannon was driving home that crisp August morning at 4am when she fell asleep, crossed the double line, and drove head first into a tree going at a fairly fast speed. She was proclaimed dead at the scene. She had no alcohol or drugs in her system; she just fell asleep and hit the tree head on. .
Since I had stayed at my coach's house that night I did not hear about this until nearly 7 o"clock that night. As I was getting in my car that night I realized that anyone could get into an accident and not survive. Needless to say I drove home that night very slowly. The next day was the wake. I decided against attending due to the fact that I did not know her family. I heard that the tears that were cried could have drowned a grown man standing up. Those tears were part of the grieving process and the letting go that I soon learned needs to happen after a death.
I did decide to go to the funeral to show respect for my classmate and to show support for her family and friends. This, I believe, was the most horrible experience that I hope I will ever have to endure. Everyone was crying and was stonily silent at the same time. I can remember the look on her parents", her twin brother's, and her friends" faces as they walked behind the coffin when they were leaving the church.
There will be no more pain, no more tears, and no more death. ... I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He we live with them. ... He will wipe every tear from their eyes. ... John tells us God will wipe every tear. ...
Heaven Heaven is a gigantic city bigger than the whole world. ... The river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flows from the throne of God in he midst of the great street of the city. ... The dwellers of heaven do not sleep. ... In heaven there is no sorrow or tears. ... Heaven is ecstatic with God's love. ...
It may be from ones own perspective of heaven as well as ones subjective meaning. Heaven may be an explanation of their beliefs of what heaven is from biblical reading or teachings. ... I view it as God peeking through the universe from the kingdom of heaven. ... The movie What Dreams Come From, based on a novel written by Richard Matheson, shows picturesque images of heaven. ... Eric Clapton wrote a song, Tears in Heaven, after his son died tragically. ...
Neither the heaven nor earth existed. ... The gods did leave one pathway from earth to heaven. ... Izanagi grieved over Izanami, and a deity was born from his tears. ... When the deities had pacified the land, the Goddess of the Sun dispatched Japan's first ruler from the heavens to the earth. Descending from the Floating Bridge of Heaven to the mountain tops, he built his palace. ...
HEAVEN"S GIFT As Samantha's eyes opened slowly the bright sunlight shined in from her window. ... She comes from a very loving family, in which she cherishes with all of her heart. ... She had been trying to hide her pain from Samantha for over a month now, because she didn't want to worry her. ... Samantha's father had just arrived home from work a few days later. ... As the tears rolled down Samantha's face she told her father "My mother was truly a gift from heaven"....
Heaven to Hell Joseph was a man who lived in Sweden and had never felt anyone's admiration. ... He had no aspirations and he never expected anything from life. ... Joseph, while still being a student, received a present from his brother Benjamin who had come to visit him once from the city. ... When Joseph went outside and opened the mailbox he found this letter, but not from his brother, who had not written to him since two weeks ago it was from the morgue. ... Tears started running down his cheeks: he cried because he knew his brother had died. ...
His father had not been dead for even two months, not long enough to feel the wind of heaven. ... "Heaven and Earth!" ... Niobe wept until Zeus cast her into stone, and even then tears flowed from the statue, forming a river.) Hamlet uses the idea of tears to show how shortly his mother mourned. ... Heaven and earth! ...
All the selections resemble each other and approach the matter of death from a similar perspective. ... A Letter from Phillis Wheatley, also maintains a serious attitude, and mentions tears that had to be held back from the speaker and a friend of the deceased. ... Robert Hayden discusses the tears of friends, as well unlikely accomplishments of the deceased. Poe states that the love shared was more than love, a love envied by the heavens. Poe goes on to say heavenly bodies were so jealous of their beautiful love they killed Annabel to have her in heaven, and that he will always love A...
All the selections resemble each other and approach the matter of death from a similar perspective. ... A Letter from Phillis Wheatley, also maintains a serious attitude, and mentions tears that had to be held back from the speaker and a friend of the deceased. ... Robert Hayden discusses the tears of friends, as well unlikely accomplishments of the deceased. Poe states that the love shared was more than love, a love envied by the heavens. Poe goes on to say heavenly bodies were so jealous of their beautiful love they killed Annabel to have her in heaven, and that he will always love A...
