Exhaling by SammyJo

The other day I was trying to clean out things and unpack some things that I had packed and was afraid to unpack because of the hurricanes from before, but decided to put faith in God.

I came on my pics, and the pics from my son's prom a year ago, it had pics of the girl and her Mom in there, I had not seen the mother of the girl in a while, well to continue, later in the afternoon picking up my youngest from school I met with an old friend who stated that my son look just like his dad, which I agreed, then It made me remember what this woman the mother of the girl who went to prom with my oldest son; had told me once because I was so worried about having a child so late in life, she told me that good people like me should have kids, that we need more well raised children in the world, and that "You stop having kids when your last child looks like the first one." Well, it just made me think of her.

Well the kicker is that nite at work I met one of her sons, and he told me that his mom had passed, I was confused, I had to make sure I was talking to the right family, and sure enough it was them, This lady had died, I was in total shock, she was only 56, she died of cancer, which she had only be confirmed of having since June, it took her life very quickly because it had gone misdiagnose for too long. I was so sorry for their lost and all I could do was say so and cry.

They are very good people, this lady was a very good woman, Always treat me and my family with kindness and respect. Of all the years that I have known her from the school I had never heard her once talk ill of anyone, never. She had 9 kids, and her husband has Parkinson, and had a stroke, so he has been in a nursing home for a while, so she took care of her kids alone for many years now, and not to mention every child that she worked with in the school or child that she met through her kids became her child, she treated them as such, and treated us the parents in great respect.

She loved God very much and it showed in her attitude and personality. We were not close friends, and didn't have chats like best friends, just more through school and such, but, she touch my son's and my life forever. Sometimes there are friends that never touch your heart at all and then there are social friends who live in your heart forever, and she is one of them.

It struck me odd, This woman who I had not talked to in a while, that I would think of her twice in this day, and then that nite find out she died. I felt as though she was telling me, and I believe she was, because she loved everyone that was lucky to have met her. I called my son and let him know and he came down for the funeral which was yesterday on Saturday.

It was a different kind of funeral, A different religion, but it was great, the preacher spoke, well yelled it out the message, and spoke of how he feels that this lady may have wanted to give one last helping hand to someone who may have needed it, and I felt so touched by it and I feel that it helped my son also. He is not doing bad things just being in college and having a new girlfriend has his mind forgetting God a little and I keep reminding him, and this funeral help get God's message across in some small way, not to mention, it made him realize how short life can be and how much he loves me and his dad. So you see, She did God's work one last time.