They Are Praising Him in the Storm

I attended a beautiful, touching, heart breaking memory filled celebration of life for a young mom today who succumbed to ovarian cancer last week. Many lovely slides and pictures were showing but the sobs broke out big time when they played a video on the big screen of this fun loving mom's 8 year old twins and 6 nieces and nephews singing and doing the actions to this song. They just attended the VBS my church did last week and those songs helped carry those little boys through the last week of their mother's life. ( remember that the next time your are asked to volunteer for a church program)

I don't even know what to say about the service- there aren't words to describe the hope, love and faith that I saw lived out before my eyes today in that family. There are not words to describe the choking sadness of seeing little boys cry for their mommy. All I can say is that I have a lot to be thankful for. Even on my bad days, I can still thank the Lord that I am alive to argue with my husband, or natter at my kids, or burn dinner. Today made all those things I get stressed out about seem trivial. At the end of the video clip, each child expressed something about their mom/aunt that they were thankful for. Do you know what every one of the comments had in common- it was about something that she DID with them; about time spent with them. Not something she bought for them or how tidy her house was.

You can bet that when I got home today, I found my hubby and hugged him longer than usual, stood there and just watched him put up siding, and listened to my kids the first time they called my name.