My heart is heavy to inform you that my mother, Anita J Telmo was laid to rest last Wednesday, November 19, 2008 and I am dealing with our loss one day at a time.
It was a sudden way of leaving us since she was still very alert and did all her usual activities that day. She was big a part of our family for so long (91 years and 6 months).
I was so blessed with my aunts, uncles, relatives, and friends who were here. Everything just fell into place specially when I was planning the funeral memorial service. My Pastor uncle did the committal ceremony at the grave site and he sang a lot of our gospel songs during the 3 services. We also sang a lot of familiar favorite hymns and read Bible verses.
I am truly grateful for everyone specially my sister, Arlene Telmo; who did all the flowers and my brother, Jesse Telmo; who did not want my mother to be cremated.
This is a life changing experience. Life is too short even after 91 years and 6 months.
Ecclesiastes 3
1 To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven:
2A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted,
3A time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up,
4A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6A time to get and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away,
7A time to rend and a time to sew, a time to keep silence and a time to speak,
8A time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
9What profit remains for the worker from his toil?
10I have seen the painful labor and exertion and miserable business which God has given to the sons of men with which to exercise and busy themselves.
11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
12I know that there is nothing better for them than to be glad and to get and do good as long as they live;
13And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor--it is the gift of God.
14I know that whatever God does, it endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it. And God does it so that men will [reverently] fear Him [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is].
15That which is now already has been, and that which is to be already has been; and God seeks that which has passed by [so that history repeats itself ].......
Peace,
Carol Ann Telmo-Malinis
San Leandro, Ca 94579
Our deepest condolences and prayers to Sis Carol and the Telmo family on the passing away of Mom Anita J Telmo.
DeMolay sons, Jobie daughters and Lincoln Lodge Masonic Family
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To
Widows
and Orphans
Words will never describe,
soft counsel to ears might not be enough.
Hand shake nor hug might capture some warmth but one will never really feel your pain,
until each of us went through the experience ourselves.
Our Order reminds us of the hourglass, to watch the grains of sand passing though the portal of time.
No matter how many honors and accomplishments each of us achieved, our sand will kept on pouring until nothing is left behind.
The Lecture in the second section taught us that the hourglass is not a symbol of time,
Further Light and Lessons of the Craft reminds us that unlike time
--- Life is finite.
So Mote It Be.
RmOlano
3Dec06
Thank you Bro Ollie for a most wise and words of wisdom. Definitely, we won't be able to feel our brother and sister's pain until we have not fully experience the same.
Like you you said, it is just a matter of time.
Bro Mar
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