Birthday Reflections

I'm old. I love my children, even if they don't always believe it. They are the life that came from me and my late DH. They are the last of our direct line, as they have no children of their own (yet). No matter. They are the embodiment of the best we knew how to be and give and share.

My next year may be better or worse than this past one; God only knows. I will continue to look for hope, to care for others as God expects, to love and pray and serve and create beauty...to exercise the gifts I've been given. It is all I can do and be.

But it's all being done for the Creator, for the memory of my husband, and for my children. May the Creator give me the grace to carry on.

Our Family - ca September 1985