How?

How can I say goodbye? How can I honor your memory?
How can I express all you meant to me? Or thank you for all you have done?
Your patient, persistent Love, shown in so many ways?
By all your prayers for me. I can tell you God answered them - I felt each and every one.
By always being there for me, standing by my side, even when others would run.
By the unconditional Love you gave
Regardless of the pain I caused in return - A Love I didn't deserve.
By your kindness, and generous, beautiful heart and smile
A hand to lend, a shoulder to cry on in your Loved one's hardest miles.
By the joy you had for others whom you Loved.
Even in the middle of some of your hardest trials.
How can I do all these things while my heart aches to have you back?
By doing those things you have taught by your example.
And that which you have, in prayer for me of the Lord humbly asked.
By letting Jesus shine in my life more and more each day.
Following the example you have made in my own faulty, fallible way.
How can I say goodbye? I can't. But thanks to God I need only say,
"I'll see you again, in the twinkling of an eye."
How can I honor your memory?
By doing the best I can in all you taught and what you prayed that I could be.
How can I say thank you for all that you have done?
By living up to the Legacy you have left for me - as one who was proud to be your only son.
You said I would always be "Your baby boy."
How can I do all these things?
By moving through the proper grieving - and remembering with joy.