Hi,
I think spring has finally arrived!
I have been
able to enjoy the last couple of days out side with my family. Friday we went
to the zoo and yesterday we went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point!
Isn’t nature
beautiful!
There are so
many wonderful sides to nature, but we all have to live through some of the
sad, unexpected sides of life.
A few weeks
ago I attended a funeral of a very influential member of our community. She had
been very well known and she had given of her time and money in many different ways
that helped the people of our state.
There were
many, many important people at the funeral and just looking around you could
tell that this was someone that everyone wanted to know and to have on their
side.
I had met her
at church; she was very polite, quiet, and humble. She did not flaunt her
position of wealth and power.
The speakers
at her funeral were her family members and close friends. They spoke of the
wonderful person she was, the mother who was there for her family at all times.
The grandmother whose grandchildren were the center of her life. And a wife who
cherished her husband through all their years together.
They did not
once talk about the money, influence, or power she had in the community. They
loved her as their mother, wife and grandmother.
I left feeling
close to her and their family, and felt their sorrow. Then a couple of days
later my friend/walking mate told me that her niece who was pregnant had just
find out that her baby did not have kidneys, and that he would not live. She
was told that she would have to go through the delivery not knowing just how
long their sweet baby would live. It could be minutes up to a couple of hours.
What a
terrible loss to this young couple.
Two different
loses, two different experiences.
I will never
lose a baby that way, but I can imagine the pain and loss of a sweet baby
before he has had time to become the person he was sent here to be.
As for Cleone,
I just hope that I have been the mother, wife and grandmother that inspire my
children to feel as her family felt for her.
May is coming
this week and time goes by too fast. Back to quilting and painting.
Next time I’ll
post some of my new ideas!
