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" I remember counting the consecutive days in which I cried. Tears came for forty days, and then they stopped, at least for a few days. I marveled at the genius of the ancient Hebrews, who set aside forty days for mourning, as if forty days were enough. I learned later how foolish I was. It was only after those forty days that my mourning became too deep for tears. So my tears turned to brine, to a bitter and burning sensation of loss that tears could no longer express. In the months that followed I actually longed for the time when the sorrow had been fresh and tears came easily. That emotional release would have lifted the burden, if only for a while...
It is not, therefore, the experience of loss that becomes the defining moment of our lives, for that is as inevitable as death, which is the last loss awaiting us all. It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives." --A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss by Jerry Sittser
From John 9
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
1As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" 3"Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. Paraphrased..."As he went along, he saw a woman who lost her sister...a husband, his wife...a girl, her mom. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this woman...this man...this girl or their parents, that they had to lose their loved one?" "Neither they nor their parents have sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in their lives."
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This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Roxanne Willnow who was born in Adrian, Michigan on March 04, 1971 and passed away unexpectedly on November 12, 2006 at the age of 35 of a cranial aneurysm. Roxanne was most proud of her husband, Rob, and their beautiful daughter Jamie. She was a 1989 graduate of Sand Creek High School. On Sept. 24, 1994, she married Robert Willnow of Palmyra, MI. And on March 5, 2001 she gave birth to her legacy, Jamie Ronee Willnow. She was employed at Ogden Telephone Company. Roxanne's contagious sense of humor livened every room and she used that sense of humor in her love of photography. Roxanne and Rob's final act of selflessness, through the donation of her organs, has given as many as six people a second chance of life. She will never be forgotten.
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