Thursday, October 06, 2005

 
MELODY
Today was her grandson's nineteenth birthday. Last month she celebrated her fifty ninth.
This morning the hospice nurse came to visit and no one answered.
The nurse called the son, who entered and found his mother sitting in her favorite chair in a pool of blood where she had apparently been for about a day and a half. The ravages of her cancer had dealt it's final blow.
Will we ever know exactly what happened? Probably not. We only know the cause of her demise was not self-inflicted.

It is raining now, like a scene from a sad movie.

She leaves behind a grown daughter and son, two grandsons and little else.
The dreaded disease, the result of nearly fifty years of smoking cigarettes and self-indulgent behavior had invaded her lungs and throat.

When Memaw, her only sibling, tried to talk to her about eternity, she half-heartedly recited some of the "stuff." She knew who Jesus is. Did she know Him? Only He and she can answer that for sure.

Goodbye sister in law.

Learn from this gentle reader.

Jesus loves you but the choices are yours to make.

Shalom Y'all
Charlie

Comments:
Thank you for sharing, Charlie.
I am sorry and am praying for you and yours.
 
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