One particular time in my life my mother showed me divine kindness. It was when I was six months pregnant with my third child. Christmas was coming and the nights were getting shorter and shorter. By 4:30 the sun was setting.
Our house was in the midst of a remodel and the kitchen had been demolished. The refrigerator was moved outside under an eaves, next to the door to the dining room. Every night I would go outside to get the milk to make cocoa for my children’s nighttime drink. I caught a chill that produced a fever. My first daughter caught my cold and we began to decline into illness. My fever raged on, weakening me. We were bed ridden. We took over-the-counter meds and homeopathics. After a few days I noticed I was losing weight; 10 lbs. and I was 6 mos. pregnant!
My relationship with my mother had deteriorated and we saw little of one another at this time. I broke down and called her. She said she would make some chicken soup and bring it over the next day. When she arrived, I lay weary on the living room couch with my little daughter. Both my mother and adopted father entered my house to find us withered from infection. I was so weak I couldn’t get up from the couch so, after my mother put the soup in a pot on a makeshift hotplate set up on a rack in my dining room, she sat down beside me. For the first and only time, my mother touched my back sympathetically, stroking me in a circular motion bringing me great comfort.
Thank you mama.
For three weeks now, my mother lay in a coma on life support.
Yesterday, May 9th, my first daughter gave birth to my first grandson.
Be Well and Love One Another,
DL
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