3.31.13

Today started out with posting the final Lenten Devotion for 2013.  From Pastor Mary.  As Lent ends, I think about all that I did and how happy I was doing it.  It really was an amazing experience, much like this past year... I made decisions that I could live with.. and though sometimes, it was hectic... it was my hectic.   I stepped up and did things I thought I never would or felt I couldn't do.  A year ago my children attended church for the first time...a year later my 11yr old son, served as an usher and my daughter sang a solo that was proposed just one week ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX7Wz_coBYs&sns=em We saw sister Helen,  then we went out for breakfast, finally we came home and did nothing.  This is the first Easter we did not go anywhere or do anything.  It gave me a lot of time to reflect on a spectacular sermon.  There is a running joke between a friend and I about zombies and cemeteries.. today Pastor Mary spoke about the fact that when our loved ones are deceased they are not in the cemetery, they have moved on...  I go to the cemetery where my mom is, and I feel nothing.  I feel closer to her sitting here and thinking about her... yet I cannot walk in a cemetery without being "weird-ed out" I don't know... maybe one day I will "grow up"...lol A friend spoke about spreading her sisters ashes today with 7 other people.. the wind blew and she was the only one the ashes blew onto... I told her I truly believe that was her sister's way of saying no matter how we think we are "letting people go"... they tell us they are always here.   Walking into the church this morning, I looked at my daughter who was tired and not feeling well and asked her if she wanted to sing (she told us on Friday... she was NOT)... I felt my mom there in the choir loft as she sang.. I did not feel her in the pew with us.. but in the loft..
May we all remember Many people are with us...to be Marvelous to each other Monday morning...