Caring – Prayers and Well Wishes
So often, we or our loved ones, go through difficult times and need that bit of extra help sent our way. This is our prayer and special energy gift list – a place where you can ask to hold or be held in our weekly Sunday harp playing of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. For over 12 years now, we come together as a group of harpists to play this song when anyone in our IHTP family is going through tough times. Please scroll down to ask us to play for you on this coming Sunday.
From Christina – I thank you all for the well wishes and prayers during the past couple months of my mother’s transition – Ruth Hersey Cooper. I have moved her information over to this site: The Melody Lingers – Music and Aging (click to go or it is under NEWSLETTER on this site). There is information there about various ways we can help the Aging through music as well as a link to Don Campbell and Alex Doman’s book: Healing At the Speed of Sound. I have also included a clip of a song that mother and I sang just before she went to Hospice – it is a beautiful song that my grandmother used to play on the piano every night before we went to bed – Sing Me To Sleep. Blessings.
~ ~ The Inspiration behind the IHTP ~ ~ Ruth Marcelyn Hersey Cooper
Please add the following people to you Sunday playing and prayer/meditation list:
William Hart McNichols
Yoshiko Sato’s mother and family
Bethany Soh (Khng) and her mother who is in the hospital
Carolyn Worster
Carol Johnson
David Eastoe and Helen, David’s father
Alice, Bill and Claire Guggenheim
Cheryl and Joshua Kissling
Annie Silvestre
Don Campbell
Hi Christina,
Would you please put my sister Benja Bemelen-Vogt on the Sunday playing and prayer/meditation list. Her cancer came back. 2 years ago I went to her when she had her surgery. She lives in Aurora Denver CO. THis year she will be 65. We already lost a sister to cancer on this age……
Last month the doctor discovered that again a tumor had formed in the Parotid gland, the largest of the salivary glands. So, at first there are a lot of test, and then the will try chemo. She has already a big scar in her neck. She had a biopsy yet, and she’s waiting for the Pet scan again in June. We email and talk a lot and I noticed that the fear comes… and I know it will help her if she knows a lot of people are playing harp for her.
thank you very very much. Clara
My son, Stuart, has asked that everyone keep Father William Hart McNichols in their prayers as he suffered a cardiac event and is hospitalized in Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, NM. Bill has been a great friend and his icons have inspired many people to prayer and reflection. I am asking that my dear IHTP family play their harps with prayerful intentions for the recovery of Father William Hart McNichols.
Thank you harp family. My mother-in-law passed last night in a very peaceful setting with family members gathered near. I was able to play for her many times during the past few days and, again, am so grateful for this training.
We are all well and relieved that Connie’s struggle with Alzheimer disease is over. That she has crossed the bridge to be with her husband of 69 years, her parents, and many dear friends. We are planning a wonderful celebration of her life in the next week or so.
Also, thank you so much for including my harp teacher, Aileen Kelley on the Somewhere list. Aileen is doing very well and has had very positive results from her surgery. My good friend, Suzy Goard and her family have had a hard month, but are recovering from their losses. I told them about their place on the Somewhere list, and they were tearfully grateful. Aileen and Suzy can be removed now to make room for others.
I feel so blessed to be part of this community.
Thank you.
Bev
Dear Christina,
I cannot express how much I am so touched by your beautiful mom Ruth and how you we able to capture each moment of you mom and share it all with us. I’ve not a dry eye since reading this and also reading everyone’s beautiful replies and thoughts they’ve shared. We love you Tina and thank you for sharing and giving us not only harp therapy lessons but life’s special moments.
Also I want to thank everyone for the Sunday’s harp playing Over The Rainbow for me and my family since we were displaced from our home due to our neighbor’s fire. Me and my family are doing very well and everyone’s prayers and well wishes has help us all so much and most of all my dearest soul sister, a dear beautiful friend of mine Regina and her family has offered their home for us to live them and we are ever so very grateful and thankful for their kind and generous hearts.
With love and appreciation and hugs,
Annie :)
Today and yesterday I have been sitting bedside with my 91-year-old mother-in-law of the past 45 years who is in the transitioning process after a long seige with Alzheimer disease. Christina, I have been envisioning the bridge picture at your mother’s bedside and described it to my “mother.” So many waiting on the other side for her to cross yet she hangs on. And I am so grateful for what I have learned in IHTP and how it has enabled me to provide comfort to Connie and the family. What a gift and what a tribute to IHTP, you, and your mother. Thank you.
Tina
I’m still pouring over your beautiful tribute to your mother. Just today I noticed that Easter Parade video. Amazing. What wonderful things you are doing, and it goes on and on. Thanks for you and your wonderful mother.
Love, Fran
Dearest Tina,
Ruth, what a beautiful woman! In all of her ages in her photos. I love her smile. She is now with my father Carl Manfred who went to the Lord on December 11. Isn’t it wonderful to have such absolute knowledge that “this life” is not the end, but rather the portal to a new beginning. Such a mystery, but a wonderful one. I am sure your tears come and go, sometimes at unexpected, random and even highly inconvenient times~~ but may they be washing medicines, the evidence of “good grief” which comes only from the wells of having been loved. Lots of love to you and yours. (I promise to write soon!)
Dear Christina
*Life is a mystery to be lived and enjoyed* for whatever it takes.
Rejoice!Your Mom Ruth has experiened her
beautiful life.
May her wonderful love and peace always be with you and family.
Love
Julia H
Dear Tina,
My deepest condolences on your Mother’s passing. What a beautiful tribute and what a gift for you to be able to spend the time with here for the last while. Thank you for sharing your feelings and stories. It was 2 years ago this next week that I sat vigil with my own Mom. I am feeling her loss again at this time of year. Blessings to you and your family. Much love to you. Debi xo
So busy celebrating a year birthday of a grandaughter that I missed this passing of Ruth and your celebration of her life and her crossing the threshold. If we all are given that opportunity to guide our mothers and fathers and to learn their last lessons, we would be so fortunate. Blessings to you and your family. Another teaching moment. God does use wisely Tina!
Dearest Tina,
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. “What we have once loved we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” –Helen Keller
Sending you love, wishing you peace.
Bev
Dear Tina,
My heart goes out to you in your loss of your beautiful mother, but it warms my heart how you two have spent these last weeks together. Sending much love to you, Lynette
Dear Christina,
Mourn not the cocoon, the butterfly has flown, to be with you everywhere.
Kate
Thank you, Tina, for sharing with us those sacred moments you had with your mother Ruth. She was truly an inspiring person for all of us. What a joyous occasion for Ruth– and for us– to cross the bridge to see loved ones waiting and to see Lord Jesus in person. Love, prayers, and deepest sympathy to you and family.
Dear Christina, Thank you for sharing your
wonderful Story. A story of life, love, hope, loss and death. It is Grand, It is beauty. Shall we all have such wonderful family, such wonderful life, such wonderful death. Thank You Ruth and Thank You Christina for all you have given me.
Tina,
Thank you so much for sharing that special journey with your dear mother in such a beautiful way. I’ve read it three times and always cry. You are always in my prayers and my thoughts. I cannot sit down at my harp without thinking of you and the blessing you have been to me.
I’m making a donation to Hospice in your mother’s name.
Peace and love always,
Fran
Dear Tina,
Thank you for sharing your mother’s final days of this world with us. Your relationship with your mother and her journey to the other side taught us valuable lessons. We wish you and your family peace and happiness.
Love, Masako
Dear Tina,
We had our meeting today at Fletcher Allen and all played Scarborough Fair together to send a celebratory song out to your Mother and you and your family and friends gathered in Buckfield. How perfect that she went on the wee morning hours just after the ninth like your father… We are holding you in our music.
Sending lots of love Tina. You and your mom will always be connected – she’s only a thought away.
Sarajane
Tina, this is such a beautiful and loving tribute to your mother. Thank you for admitting us into this private, sacred time in your life! My thoughts and prayers are with you and yours. Love, Callie
Dear Christina and Family,
Thank you for sharing and allowing us all to feel your love for Ruth. It is amazing how love flows on and on.
It carries us all closer snd closer.
Thank you Ruth, Christina and Family.
Sisterly love
Vimukti
Dear Tina,
Thank you for sharing your mother’s journey with us. You are a very special daughter. I know you made her transition more comfortable and special.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you as you adjust to a new life in the years ahead.
Love as always, Sue and David
Tina,
My prayers are with you and your family. You are deep in my thoughts. Thank you for sharing your journey with your Mom with all of us. She sure was blessed to have you by her side!
Love,
Jocelyn
Tina,
I am so taken by all of the love created as your mom passed gently with grace and so much light. Tis a rich blessing to share
in this and experience all of the beauty together as a family.
I too am going through similar process with my mom. SO many blessings, she sees angels and knows peace. It too has been an incredible experience for all those who come to give and share. Shalom my peace in all you do, Peace I leave with you my friend.
Thank for your precious sharing, Tina. So touching and inspiring. I will keep you and your family in my prayers. Bless you!
Dear Christina,
Thank you for sharing the beauty and sadness of your mother’s transition — such a gift to share this conscious death/birth to the mystery beyond human life.
I’m holding you and your family in my heart and will send rainbow notes over the waves to you all.
Shalomaloha, arohanui, namaste,
Lethea
Dearest Tina,
Ruth has crossed over the Rainbow Bridge in grace and beauty. Thank you for sharing your mom’s sacred journey with us. I will wear pink (also my favorite color) and hold you, your mom and whole family in my heart. I will chant in Gaelic for the blessings of God upon her soul. And big hugs and congratulations to Tim and his bride.
Love and Blessings,
Beatrice
Dear Christina
I am truly happy for you that you had so many lovely and loving times with your Mom. In the sharing of life there is a closeness; in the sharing of death there is a divine harmony that cannot be explained, only understood.
Take care, Glenda Underhill
Dear Tina,
You and your mom and family have been in my thoughts and prayers. What a beautiful exchange of love and support during your mother’s transition from this world. I am sure that she ran over that bridge into the arms of her loved ones and was enfolded into the Divine love and light. May you and your family share tears of parting and peace, love and laughter and be blessed with the assurance that all will be well.
My sympathy and love to all, Margaret
Dear Christina,
Be gentle with yourself during this time of grieving. What a blessing Ruth was to all of the harp world and you also conntinue to be a blesssing to us all.
We are thankful Ruth did not suffer long and that you had some beautiful times together this last month.
Death is not extinquishing the light, it is turning down the lamp because the dawn has come.
Blessings to you and you family.
Carla
Beloved Tina,
Blessings of peace and loving to you and yours and to your Mom on her journey. May Loving and Light surround, fill, and protect each and every one of you through the moments of grieving, releasing, and sorrow all for the highest good as you move through to the good memories and joy of a life well lived. May you celebrate your mother by claiming the wonderfulness that you are and the heritage that brought you to where you are today and all that you are contributing to the upliftment of others.
Peace be with you.
Hugs,
Estelle
Hi Christina,
Sending you peace and love :-) What lovely pictures of your mother! What a blessing to be able to play the harp with her:-) wishing you well :-) love
Dear Tina,
You and your mum have shared some very special times that you will treasure for ever! You will miss her indeed but the love will carry you and heal you… she will never be too far anyway…Laurence
Thank you for sharing so deeply and with such beauty. The feelings and teachings of this threshold are so precious and deep. You honor us with these glimpses. Loving thoughts are with you.
Deep Peace
Deep peace of the running wave to you
Deep peace of the flowing air to you
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you
Deep peace of the shining stars to you
Deep peace of the gentle night to you
Moon and stars pour their healing light on you.
Deep peace to you
Deep peace to you.
Love,
Liz
Dear Christina,
The way you supported your mother in crossing the bridge – has given her courage and trust and will omfort you in your grief.
Reading about your mother and you was a heartwarming experience; thank you for sharing these precious moments with us. The wind will bring my harpsounds over the ocean to both of you….
Junda Maks/Holland.