UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
This is such a difficult write and I have been away from my blog for several weeks spending time with my family, and my beautiful Mother-in-law who passed away June 18. She was my second Mom, I loved her dearly and I still struggle with the realism that she is no longer here physically. I miss her… The journey of life holds such beauty and pain, and it is in the experience of death, and being present during that last breathe of a loved one that truly brings into full light the appreciation of the gift of our life and how we spend every moment. My Mom-in-law is in heaven now, able to breathe, walk, laugh and exist in the perfect form of her spirit in the presence of God and those who have passed before her that she so loved. At the same time, I struggle with my human feelings of this “is all not real and weird.” I expect to go over to my in-laws’ and see her, looking forward to one of our many girl talks. I can still see her and hear her in my mind, an...