This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Henry Noval Colegado, born in Lodiong, Bonifacio Misamis Occidental on the 25th August 1941 and passed away on the 3rd May 2012 at 70 years of age. We will remember him forever.
In heaven, where there is no pain,
And sorrow is no more,
We hope to meet him once again,
With those that's gone before.
~unknown~
One Year Ago Today
by Angie Colegado Cordero
3 May 2013
The great wheel of the year has turned once more and I find myself back at the 1st death anniversary of my father. For me he has been away vacationing for a year already. I hope he enjoys his vacation as a man with no worries and no illness. I remembered what papa taught me before when I was still young. Every now and then I found myself piling up the plates neatly or arranging the clothes just the way he taught me. I realised there are a lot of characters that we shared: the way we dressed up, the way we talked, and our expressions. At least we (my twin Haidee and my brother Jemwin) know we have some part of his character existing in us.
With those family, relatives and friends who lost their loved one and still experience the pain, which I truly understand, I wish to share my sympathy at this moment. Life here is just fleeting, a prelude to a much better life. I always remember my papa would say, "Enjoy every minute of your life here as we live this life but once".
I opened Papa's Bible (originally this was Mama's Bible but Papa was using it until his last breath) and it broke my heart to see immediately his handwriting and the article that he wrote for his last sermon. It's about a FATHER, that a father must exercise AUTHORITY with HUMILITY, in wisdom, in all KINDNESS and GENTLENESS and that he should be controlled by the LOVE and FEAR of GOD. Papa tried to live out this statement and I believe he already did and his memory will live in us.
We Love you Pa!
1 year journey without a father is a lonely journey....i could not forget that fatal date when the e.r. nurse called me at around 9pm while i was finishing my powerpoint presentation...it was a very hard night for me, loosing so suddenly my beloved papa...as if the whole world fall down on me...my mind went blank for a while, and then in a little while i remember my mama, i immediately ask the nurses attending papa if where is my mama, they told me she's just there when i turn around i saw where crying, i immediately went near her and comfort her...it was a very horrible night....and today we are celebrating papa's 1 year death anniversary....last friday we also bury papa's first degree cousin ante concepcion conching noval villarante, life as i understand it is meaningless without God...so even though life without papa and ante conching if there is God, is still has a very significant meaning....
It has been a sad journey without him. But we have arduously walked on a year. We will always continue to think about you which we do most every day.
O-ne year ago you died, and still we mourn,
N-or will our mourning end till it be night,
E-ven as time turns our tears to light
Y-ears hence, when this may be more easily borne.
E-ach moment of your passion and delight,
A-s clear as sunshine, bountiful and bright,
R-emains in our hearts now that you are gone.
You will remain in our hearts pa.
last week i dream about my papa, in the morning i called fellow cousins who has no papa anymore, and they said they too experienced the same experience, this meanz to say i really miss my papa, months has passed but still, i'm on in pain, forgetting him is not that easy...surely i have that hope that i will surely see him again in the ressurection morning!
