My Mom

My Mom

Dear Jesus,

Take good care of her.  Reward her for what she deserves.  She is your precious daughter who worked very diligently, while here on earth.  She knew how to love unconditionally.  She accepted anyone and everyone, even the outcast of society.  She had made everyone feel right at home when they would come over.  Mom was very busy, but would stop doing what ever she was working on and give undivided attention to her visitor, showing she valued that person.  She would welcome total strangers at our dinner table.  I remember one guy felt so welcomed that he would walk right in.  If there was anything on the stove cooking he felt so comfortable,  he would help himself to a little sample.

At times the house would become chaotic because mom had a heart for children. There was a time in their life when mom and dad would take home on the weekends children who were disabled, physically as well as mentally.  Then they ended up fostering 7 children on top of the 4 she already had.  There was this one precious baby that ended up in our home and mom decided to adopt him, he was so much a part of us they he even looks like one of us. Mom enjoyed every minute with her grandchildren, all 10 of them.  She taught me how to love, she knew how to die to oneself for the sake of the others.  She was courageous, hard working, loving, gentle, and a wonderful role model for her children.  Lord, I know it was you that developed these characters within her see mom had no role models.  She came from a broken home.

She's a gem Lord.  She deserves the best of crowns you have up there.  Please let her know that I love her and that I am PROUD of the work she did here on earth.  Thank you for blessing me with such a wonderful mom.  Let her know I will be there soon to be reunited with her and dad.