My friend, Betty Cartwright, seemed to have passed away from a broken heart.
Betty was like a second mother to me. I had known her as long as I had known her daughter, Wendy Welch. We all Loved each other very much. We Loved each other as family!
Betty and I talked on the phone almost every day for many years. I miss calling and hearing her Lovely, sweet voice. We shared many of our life stories with each other. I will carry the wisdom she shared with me always.
Betty was deeply saddened over the loss of her daughter, Wendy. She did the best she could to carry on but it was difficult for her. Betty also shared the fact that she had outlived her entire immediate family. She missed them dearly, and it filled her with sadness.
Betty’s faith in God was strong and we always prayed together before we ended our phone calls. It gave us both a strong sense of peace, and bonded us as family. Betty was always happy when I asked her to pray with me. She was a lady filled with Love, wisdom, beauty, intelligence, kindness, and compassion. I feel honored to have known, and Loved her for so many years.
Although we lived on opposite sides of the state of Tennessee from each other, we were strongly bonded. Every holiday, I sent her a gift to remind her of how much she is valued and Loved.
When Wendy became sick, she would ask me to call her Mom as much as possible, and I was already doing that with pleasure. Betty and I would share stories, laugh together, say our prayers and always say “I Love you” to each other before we ended our phone calls.
Bob and Wendy Welch, Betty Cartwright and me, shared a deep, Love together that continues to live in my heart every day.
I thank God for allowing me to know and Love Betty! It makes me sad that Betty and I were so close, and bonded as friends, yet born so many years apart. I believe that our natural born years apart brought balance to the friendship. I wanted more years of friendship with Betty but God’s plan is perfect, and He called her home. Now, Betty, Wendy and Bob are together in that “sentimental gentle wind.” The aforementioned phrase is an excerpt from one of the many hit songs that Bob Welch wrote, entitled "Sentimental Lady." Bob used to call me his "Sentimental Doctor!"
This is Betty’s favorite poem, and she introduced it to me...
”There is a destiny that makes us brothers, None goes his way alone,
All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.”
–Author, Edwin Markham
Has someone in your life passed away that still causes you to feel deep soul pain? Pray and ask God to help you emotionally and physically overcome the deep soul pain that you feel from the passing of a Loved one.
John 14:1-4
Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know the way to where I am going.
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