Mother's Day

My mother died in front of my eyes when I was 21. She had fought a long battle over a decade with heart attacks, strokes, and lung problems. Smoked to much and worked to hard. Sometimes three jobs to keep a roof over our head as a single mom after a ugly divorce for ugly reasons. That was the first time I had actually seen someone die. I had to make the arrangements for the funeral right there and then. Hospitals are not very patient places. It was a shocking day. On July 14th at noon 2015, my children lost their mother. Dear Terry died having fought a long battle for nearly a decade. Struggles with kidney failure due to polycyst disease, colon cancer, infection gained in the many hospitalizations, arthritis, and worn out knees. I was there with her during the days she died. Terry was a great mom. She lived to be a mom. We were on the bleeding edge of homeschooling when there were almost no support groups or curriculums to help us. She wanted to raise up her children to love the Lord Jesus. Her focus was "As for me and my house we will serve the Lord." She also wanted to have the deepest relationships she could have with her children. For her relationships with them was more important that academics. She loved her children with all her heart. I have never seen such a passionate mother. I am sad that my children don't have their mother this mother's day. May the Lord help them deal with this loss and allow them to remember all that she taught them. Amen