During the Thanksgiving season I tend to get more sentimental about people that have had a great impact on my life. My mother is one of those people.
Mom has been an emotional rock in my life. I’ve been lucky to have her for so many wonderful years. She introduced me to my faith in God, and was there through difficult times when I was defining myself as a human, as a parent and in this world.
Two months ago Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. After surgery and a treatment plan that calls for chemotherapy over a lengthy time, she faces her future with courage and determination. It’s been difficult for me to see her weary under the weeks of radiation. I ask myself those questions none of us want to face. “What would I do without her in my world?” “How would I survive from day to day?”
I’m doing what we all do when faced with the possible loss of someone we hold dear. Moments of anger, denial, sadness, some days are simply filled with tears. What I am trying to look toward and envision is her coming through and out the other side of this particular trial, health intact, mind and spirit radiant with life and her smile that will continue to light my way with wisdom and strength.
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