Today would have been my Mother's 77th Birthday! The best thing about this day is knowing that she is no longer suffering. That she is at rest! I miss her, but I grieved for her over the past year because I really lost her to Dementia long before she passed from this earth. I couldn't let her day go by without at least a mention! I will always love her!
I held her hands in mine last night...
mine just as tightly...as the day that I was born.
Those gentle and expressive hands...
etched by work and care...have folded over
my bedside...many times in humble prayer.
They've washed for me...they've fed me...
they've helped me be a woman...There's something
of our Lord, Himself...
In every mother's hand.
That poem almost made me cry, and I don't almost cry very often.
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful.
Happy Birthday to Laverne, heaven must be heavenly~
That was very touching! I hope my kids will feel this way about me. And I feel sad about my own grandfather's loss of reality. He still knew me this past summer (he asked me what grade I was in! and I'm 35!), but he might not know me next time I get to TN. Thanks for sharing!
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