Why is it so important, the passing of a human life?
For one, the value of a human life cannot be measured, or of a human soul. Jesus, recognizing that value paid a dear price.
It's also because this is a human whom one has known for a lifetime.
It's your mother. In this age of women seeking personal worth but seemingly falling behind value already established in our past, it is important to acknowledge there is no more important woman in one's life than one's mother. Mother, why do we devalue the most important woman of all? Mother.
Richard Pryor did a hilarious sketch as the priest visiting the character in the exorcist as a Saturday night live spoof on that movie. He becomes enraged when the crazed child makes evil comments about his mother, using black lingo saying, "your momma.".
When black families began to be torn apart, with absent fathers, mothers became the one strong stay. He says, "no one says bad about my momma "
My mother has been an incredibly integral part of my life and experience. Letting her go is incredibly difficult.
I asked the chaplain at st Therese to take a prayer request that I could transcend the difficulty of the end when you don't know if it's the last day or not. But can you ask that it not be difficult? I don't think so. Death wasn't God's original plan but we messed that up. So there comes that time when you have to say goodbye. Like the song Whitney Houston sang, I say to her, "I will always love you."
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