I’m taking four days of solitude after a month and a half of intense activity, which included my trip to Scotland, being with Mom during her last eight days, the two weeks leading up to the memorial service, and then the busyness of last weekend.
I’m quite sure that everyone present on Saturday left the service knowing deep in their hearts that gratitude guided Mom’s life. Gratitude was the catalyst for how she led her life. Through the lens of gratitude Mom honestly and thoroughly examined and responded to every situation in her life, both the commonplace and eventful; and then she would end with gratitude for how God had worked for the good. The important point here is that Mom’s gratitude was not for any particular outcome, but for the very fact, which for Mom was faith and knowing, that God was always there with her in both the good times and the tough ones.
I’m quite sure that everyone present on Saturday left the service knowing deep in their hearts that gratitude guided Mom’s life. Gratitude was the catalyst for how she led her life. Through the lens of gratitude Mom honestly and thoroughly examined and responded to every situation in her life, both the commonplace and eventful; and then she would end with gratitude for how God had worked for the good. The important point here is that Mom’s gratitude was not for any particular outcome, but for the very fact, which for Mom was faith and knowing, that God was always there with her in both the good times and the tough ones.
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