Joy Ivey Antcliff

July 11th, 1927 - September 19th, 2016

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Joy

Death is not the end; death can never be the end.
Death just means you are starting over in life. You had Alzheimer's, and your hands were so bad because of the arthritis. You couldn’t walk without a walker anymore and sometimes
you didnt even have a motive to get up and move around in the morning.
Now, you are up with the Lord where you always wanted to be the whole time when
everything started to go bad. You always said to me, “Maybe God doesn’t want me because he hasn’t taken me yet, maybe he doesn’t want me in heaven”.
And I just said no he wants you, but I could never truly tell you why you weren’t called home yet.
The truth is, he knew too many people were going through too many things to lose you too.
He knew that you would rather be in complete pain and agony before you wanted to see the ones you love in any type of pain or anything.
I was not ready for you to go.
God, was I not ready.
I will forever remember waking up in the morning for school and my mom asking me when the best time to tell me bad news was. It never crossed my mind that you would be who or what she was talking about.
I didn’t even say anything.
I kind of just walked back up to my room and then went back down and went to school.
Took me the whole school day to realize what actually happened.
I cried and I still cry just thinking about everything.
You were once fine.
You had some physical difficulties but you were still standing and laughing and.. Remembering. Then all of a sudden you just went bad. Everything went bad. They found a tumor in your brain and then all of sudden here you are, in a nursing home. Can’t even remember who people are.
You didn’t know who I was until the last time I seen you, the last time I walked out your door, the last time I saw you smile, and laugh. I said, “I love you, Joy” and before all of this happened, before you lost your memory you would always respond with, “ I love you too sweetie” and When I said I loved you the last day, You said “ I love you too sweetie”.
Sometimes I wonder why God does the things he does to people. Why he gives people diseases. Or takes people away from us that we really care about. But now I’ve learned, he doesn’t do it to punish us. But to make us stronger. It just makes us weaker before it makes us
Stronger.
And that’s okay.
It’s okay not to be okay sometimes.
I love you Joy.

Joy Ivey Antcliff

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