Ask for Forgiveness

Sunday, May 9, 2010

My sisters and I have been dealing with a thief for more than four years now.

Our parents are both deceased and are buried in Johnson Grove Cemetery in Vass, N.C.

When you lose your parents, the only physical place you can go to feel close to them is their gravesite. Imagine going there time after time and finding that the beautiful flowers we did honest work to pay for are gone yet again.

We have had so many flowers stolen that we have lost count, but God hasn’t lost count.

Sunday is Mother’s Day, but it is also our mom’s birthday. Since you just stole from us again this week, hopefully Mother’s Day will be a peaceful one for us.

I have specifically asked God to prick your heart the next time you step foot on their plot with your unclean hands, and to touch you in such a way that you will fall down on your knees and ask for forgiveness right then and there.

We are pretty sure that we are close to getting you, but why risk an officer knocking on your door, offering you a free ride to Carthage, when all you have to do is ask for forgiveness and stop your stealing?

When you ask for forgiveness, and I hope that you do, you will do the right thing and, for a change, give them beautiful flowers, instead of taking them.

Pat Taylor

Carthage

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maillady54 3 years ago

I understand and sympathize with this family.We have a son buried at Bethesda, and it is important to us he has a pin wheel(family story) and flowers, growing or silk.His concrete bench and pinwheels and flowers have been removed too many times to count, causing the family severe anguish.Only difference is,most of our items have been removed at the direction of Robbie Farrel, the head of the Bethesday cemetary comittee.It is a shame he spends so much time and effort removing flowers and mementos, time that could be better spent mowing the grass and weeding, removing dead trees,,checking to see that graves are not sinking ,I enjoy seeing the small mementoes people leave with their departed loved ones, and bright flowers, silk or growing on the resting place, say to me," Look someone visited me, I am not forgotten"

LucilleGreybone 3 years ago

I also have many relatives at Bethesda. Their graves are plundered several times a month, by whom I have no idea. Whoever you are, just know that I quietly walk that area daily, with cell phone in hand, ready to call the police. Or stop you however I am able.