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THE BEGINNING AFTER THE END

2/5/2015

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EULOGY
HI, I AM MICHELE, MITCHELL’S MOTHER. LAST NIGHT I PROMISED MY SON I WOULD TRY TO FIND THE STRENGTH TO DELIVER THIS EULOGY SO YOU COULD ALL GET TO KNOW MY SON A LITTLE BETTER. 

......THIS IS THE HARDEST DAY OF MY LIFE AND I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING.

I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY MANY PEOPLE HOW STRONG AND COURAGEOUS I AM AND MANY PEOPLE HAVE THANKED ME FOR GIVING THEM EXTRA YEARS WITH MY BELOVED SON MITCHELL

FIRST OF ALL, HE WAS STRONG AND COURAGEOUS AND I WANT TO THANK GOD FOR LOANING AND ENTRUSTING ME WITH HIS ANGEL FOR 23 YEARS...I WAS BLESSED TO BE CALLED MOM BY HIM. 

MITCHELL ALSO THANKED GOD THAT GOD CHOSE ME FOR HIM....ISNT GOD SMART?

I READ ONCE THAT GOD CHOOSES HIS BEST WARRIORS FOR THE TOUGHEST BATTLES......MITCHELL AND I ARE WARRIORS, AND I AM SO PROUD OF HIM. WE ARE BOTH WOUNDED, BUT MY BRAVE WARRIOR HAS GONE HOME TO BE WITH HIS HEAVENLY FATHER.....THE ONE THAT CREATED HIM SO PERFECTLY FOR ME.

IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AROUND, I BELIEVE THE SHEER NUMBER OF PEOPLE HERE TODAY AND YESTERDAY SHOW TESTAMENT TO THE YOUNG MAN WE CALLED SON, BROTHER, GRANDSON, COUSIN, NEPHEW, BOYFRIEND, FRIEND OR ANYTHING ELSE.
 
HE WAS BEAUTIFUL NOT ONLY ON THE OUTSIDE BUT ON THE INSIDE AS WELL.  HE WAS GENTLE AND KIND SPIRITED; HAD A DEEP RESPECT FOR WOMEN........JUST ASK HIS GRANDMOTHERS....... AND HE PROFOUNDLY TOUCHED SO MANY LIVES.

MITCHELL WANTED TO PLEASE PEOPLE AND LOVED TEASING AND MAKING PEOPLE LAUGH. HE ALSO TRIED TO PROTECT HIS MANY LOVED ONES FROM THE DEAMONS HE FOUGHT.............HE FOUGHT SO HARD…HE FOUGHT SOOO HARD.

I AM THANKFUL I WAS THERE FOR HIS LAST MINUTES ON EARTH AND MITCHELL NOW KNOWS JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE LOVED AND ACCEPTED HIM............EVEN WITH HIS FLAWS. I AM GLAD I AM THE PERSON WHO FOUND HIM AND HE WAS NOT ALONE.

I ALWAYS LOOKED AT HIM THE WAY GOD LOOKS AT HIM, NOT THE WAY OUR CRUEL SOCIETY LOOKS AT OTHERS. HE WAS PERFECT........GOD DOES NOT HAND CREATE JUNK.

I WANT PEOPLE TO START TALKING ABOUT THIS EVIL, CRUEL, LYING, CHEATING AND LIFE-ROBBING PLAGUE THAT IS TAKING OUR CHILDREN AWAY FROM US! 

GET INVOLVED!!!!!!!  GET ANGRY!!!!!!!!!


 DONT THINK IT CANNOT HAPPEN TO YOU OR YOUR FAMILY BECAUSE IT CAN. OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS TO HELP OUR KIDS, NOT CRIMINALIZE THEM AND… STOP IGNORING, BLAMING AND BEING TOO TERRIFIED TO TALK ABOUT IT!

I WANT TO SEND A MESSAGE TO ANYONE STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION; YOU ARE NOT INVINCIBLE. YOU ARE NOT ALONE AND YOU ARE LOVED. JESSE, Mitchell’s dad WAS TALKING TO ME THIS MORNING ABOUT A CONVERSATION HE HAD WITH A PARENT WHOSE CHILD STRUGGLES WITH ADDICTION AND HOW IT NEGATIVELY AFFECTS THEIR RELATIONSHIP. YOU CAN HATE THE ADDICTION AND LOVE YOUR CHILD. TELL YOUR CHILDREN YOU LOVE THEM, IT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 

I WANT TO END THIS ON A LIGHTER NOTE. WHEN MITCHELL WAS YOUNG, HE USED TO PUT HIS LITTLE HANDS ON MY FACE AND TELL ME.....”MOMMY, YOU ARE PRETTIER THAN POLICE SIREN LIGHTS”. I TOOK IT AS A COMPLIMENT BECAUSE I KNOW HOW COOL LITTLE KIDS THINK POLICE SIREN LIGHTS ARE.

 I TOLD HIM RECENTLY "MAN I AM FAT".......HE SAID,” NO MOM YOU ARE NOT FAT, YOU ARE A MOM”.

 AND WHEN NOBODY ELSE WAS LISTENING HE WOULD CALL HIMSELF MY BOUNCING BABY BOY!!!! I KNOW HE ADORED ME!!!! 

I PROMISED MITCHELL THIS MORNING THAT I WOULD CONTINUE THE FIGHT WE FOUGHT FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS. AND EVEN THOUGH MY WOUNDED WARRIOR HAS BEEN CALLED HOME, I WILL CONTINUE THE FIGHT UNTIL MY LAST BREATH HERE ON EARTH AND GOD CALLS ME HOME TO BE WITH MY SON.

WATCH OUT SATAN, I AM COMING FOR YOU!

5 Comments
Michele L Wagner
2/4/2015 05:01:31 pm

Hi, this is Michele, I wanted to make sure the comment page was working. To leave a comment, just hit the comment word at the top of the blog. Thank you!

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Lindsay Babiarz
2/5/2015 09:25:59 am

Michelle-
We talk often and I want you to know that your a VERY strong woman. If it wasn't for Mitchell's passing we would be nothing but strangers. I will continue to fight the good fight and always be here for you. Mitchell did not for on vein. He brought you and I together to work our hardest to inform people of this disease that others seem to not want to talk about it. Well too bad for those people who think pushing this under the rug and this disease will magically go away!!!! How would society feel if we just said who cares about that smoker with lung cancer, they had it coming? No it was progressive am I correct? There are treatments like chemo therapy for that. There's also rehab for drug and alcohol addicts. Putting people in jail to "dry them up" is not the answer. It's like the legal system here thinks that's the answer. Good people do bad things when drugs take over. Wether it's stealing, lying, cheating or manipulating those they love remember it's not who that person is. However just because they do drugs doubt mean their soul changes. It's time to fight no matter how hard it may feel at times. I myself is a recovering addict and I can tell you from experience that cutting those you love completely out of your life just doesn't work. It makes addicts want to do more to hurt themselves. Michele. .. I love you and I'm so lucky and blessed to have you in my and curts lives. We love you too the moon and back. .. brighter then all the stars in the sky. We will NEVER give up and always be here for you AND the cause. God bless you Mitchell for bringing your mother and I together. I promise you curt and I will always be there for her. I don't know exactly what your plan is for us and your mom but we will all fight till the last breath we take. Watch over and guide us please our handsome young angel Mitchell. We love and miss you my friend xoxoxo

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Tamie
2/7/2015 06:28:14 pm

I hope, beyond hope, that you can fight this fight and have followers to help you. My family has been fighting with, and for, someone in our family over this very same thing! So, I know all too well, what battles you are going through. Addiction is not "just a choice." It is a disease that needs to be reckoned with and others can help. You have to work hard and keep fighting, that is the only way. Please stay strong and keep the courage up, your sons death will not be in vain. He will see what you are doing as he looks down from heaven, helping others, and send his love to you from above.

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Heath Coselman
2/8/2015 11:21:09 pm

Hey, Michele I'm so sorry to hear about Mitch! He and I played little league football together, graduated high school with one another, and unfortunately used heroin together. I'm upset I missed his funeral due to the fact that my own addiction overdosed me and I ended up in jail. Mitch was an awesome guy and I'm so sorry for your loss and its awesome your doing what other parents who've lost are to afraid to do. That is stand up to the disease that society labels people horrible and fight against it! Stay strong! - Heath Coselman

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