Scotty Brian Purcell

Scotty, this makes 22 Chistmases I have had to face here without you. And this year you have both your Granny and Granddaddy there...and I am here.....I love you more than words can say and miss you with every fiber of my being. I try to keep your legacy alive here and let people know just how specail you are. I know you would be grown had you stayed 37 years. Wow...I wonder about so many things.....what ifs. I miss you booger boo and hope you look down and see me remembering you and our season each year with a tree and candlelights for you. You can see the lights at night over at the cemetary. I do it for you and Momma and Daddy now. I love you all, Know you all had the best Christmas ever today! Celebrating! I love you booger boo! 

My deepest condolences.  May these few words from the Holy Scriptures bring you comfort in your time of grief...

John 11:32-45

32 And so Mary, when she arrived where Jesus was and caught sight of him, fell at his feet, saying to him: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping and the Jews that came with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and became troubled; 34 and he said: “Where have YOU laid him?” They said to him: “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus gave way to tears. 36 Therefore the Jews began to say: “See, what affection he used to have for him!” 37 But some of them said: “Was not this [man] that opened the eyes of the blind man able to prevent this one from dying?”

38 Hence Jesus, after groaning again within himself, came to the memorial tomb. It was, in fact, a cave, and a stone was lying against it.39 Jesus said: “TAKE the stone away.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: “Lord, by now he must smell, for it is four days.”40 Jesus said to her: “Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Therefore they took the stone away. Now Jesus raised his eyes heavenward and said: “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 True, I knew that you always hear me; but on account of the crowd standing around I spoke, in order that they might believe that you sent me forth.” 43 And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Laz´a·rus, come on out!” 44The [man] that had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his countenance was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them: “Loose him and let him go.”

45 Therefore many of the Jews that had come to Mary and that beheld what he did put faith in him;

Please go to the following link for more information regarding the Hope expressed in this passage

http://www.jw.org/finder?locale=en&docid=1102013500&prefer=lang 

Scotty tomorrow will mark 21 years here without you. But no matter the years my arms will ache to hold you and my heart will be missing a piece. I know you and Granny and Grandaddy are celebrating now but dont forget to save me a place too. I love you booger boo forever and a day.  

Happy 37th Birthday in Heaven! I know you are celebrating but I sure could use a big old bear hug from my baby today! I love you booger boo and will miss you forever....just like my love for you is forever! Hugs and kisses and I love you mostest!

Scotty, no matter the years your mother's arms still ache to hold you close and muss up your curls! I took for granted that it would be just us two forever...but you got your wings and flew away and left me here. I really don't blame you, like the butterfly and angels you can fly! Sometimes I feel as if I failed you in so many ways. I simply hope you have forgiven me for these short comings. From the day you were born, you were a force of nature, so full of life and wonder. I miss you with every fiber of my being and long for the day we can hold each other again in one of those million dollar bear hugs. Your Mama misses you so much. I love you the mostest! Happy Valentines Day my son! 

Tomorrow marks 20 Christmases wiithout you...In some small way, the season we loved so much has inched it's way back into my life. I hang you on my tree with the pictures and special ormaments we cherished to show your life. And now each year, I decorate, taking time to remember each one that I have placed there since your birth and now since your death. I stop and look at the tiny simple bell with 1993 on it, it represents my broken year, no splender for you were gone. Now 20 years later I remember those first years knowing that my grief has taken me down the road and shown me so much and taken me to so many places. Son, my heart will never be totally healed, and my arms wiill never feel right without you in them. I miss you so much and I love you son. Merry Christmas in Heaven. I love you forever and a day! Mom

20 years is too long to be here without you booger boo! Mamma loves and misses you so much. There is a song Beam me up on my phone, yes phones play music now and everyone has a cell phone...go figure! Lots of things have changed since you left me here. I always think of Beam me up Scotty so I think it is a fitting song for you and me. I miss you so very much, but I try not to host pity parties all the time. I try to live life the way you would want of me, helping others. Your heart of gold your smile your bear hugs your blue eyes your cute little curls...they all are etched in my mind and heart. And my heart beats for you too. For I carry you with me as I try to do good for others. I love you son forever and ever! Love Mom

Happy Birthday tomorrow! You know I spent years not doing things on your birthday, but son, I am honoring you with my activity! Last year a grief concert on your day, this year Mayfest! I love you and I hope you are looking down on us and knowing I carry you with me everywhere until the day I die too! Mom loves you booger boo and I hope your 36th birthday in Heaven is spectacular! Hug your Granny for me too! I love you with every breath! Mom

Hey booger boo, Mom is writing an article for an internet newsletter about you...You are famous once more, after all these years! I tried to find the one I wrote so many years ago for the railsafety movement, but guess it is long gone or buried in my files somewhere, so I will start from scratch and write about my love!  I also wrote about you this month for the meeting, it is about how love lives on forever.  I hope you do feel my kisses I send to you and feel my love. I love you son and wanted you to know that you are still, after 19 long years, still so much a part of my life. As long as my heart beats and I take a breath you live on through me. Momma loves you Scotty Brian!  

Merry Christmas my little elf! Remember how wonderful Christmas was each year when we decorated and decorated and loved every minute of the celebration! Remember the year you played Mary in the nativity play in RAs at church. For those who didn't know RAs is a boys group, no girls allowed, so to do the nativity someone had to be Mary, So you were, because they needed you! Remember the fireworks you loved each Christmas how we saved enough money to always buy what you wanted. How you played in the Jazz band and loved having your santa hat? The parades you were in, the times you helped others. We always tried to make someone elses day great! I love you son and today I carry on with the Bereaved Parents Group in your name because you would expect no less of me, to do more than my best! I love you son and I miss you terribly! Even after 19 years...I still wish I could come see you and get one of those million dollar hugs! Mamma loves you booger boo! Merry Christmas!