I wrote the poem below to my 91 year old mother-in-law 2 days before she was launched into eternity. She departed on Mother’s Day. Perhaps there was a celebration they wanted her there for! As my husband wrote:
Yes, she is fully alive now with the Lord.
As I heard Dad whisper to her at the viewing… “I’m coming”. We’ll be together again… joy and hope in sorrow. In loss we have felt the priceless embrace of the community we have in Christ.
Her laugh, her wit, her honesty
Don’t even come close to what you see
As her ruling passion and lived-out love
That showed in her steadfast serving the Above
Her mind set to please Him with all her energy
She delighted so many with her capacity
To handle with joy her family of nine
So rare does that kind of holy light shine
And it’s shining still from her arrows shot out
Infiltrating our world all about
Finding in their own darkness, that same light
To lift and guide and bring new life
As we stand on her shoulders peering into a new day
May her faithfulness and God-seeking launch us in a thousand ways!
We will miss her sharp wit and joyful way. Thank you mom for your dedicated life.
“It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind…” Ecc. 7:2
We can learn a lot there. What do you learn from looking at someone else’s life?