Bonnie and Ray Boettger
Nancy, Russ, Linda, Denise, and all the grandchildren
Anyone who knew Marv, - no matter how briefly - knew his incredible capacity for caring, patience, kindness, support, and the gentleness with which you afforded all whom you met. Your acts made the world a better and happier place. You've crossed the Great Divide and now know the Great Truth and are have achieved Peace. To those of us who will mourn your passing and miss your presence, I hope they might find consulation, as I have, in these quotes from the writings of poet, writer and theologian Rabindranath Tagore on death.
“Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp
because the dawn has come.”
“When you came, you cried and everybody smiled with joy;
when you go, smile, and let the world cry for you.”
“Death belongs to life as birth does
The walk is in the raising of the
foot as in the laying of it down”
“And because I love this life
I know I shall love death as well.
The child cries out when
From the right breast the mother
Takes it away, in the very next moment
To find in the left one
Its consolation.”
Sunday February 4, 2018 at 9:31 am
