Something that got to me while I was there and now that I am home, though, is the fact that everyone that was at the shower lost a very important part of their family just over a month ago. Rickie's mother, Vickie, was sadly taken from the world on September 1 with her boyfriend, Gordon, in a motorcycle accident. I visited Vickie's Facebook page today and was just unbelievably saddened. Rickie had posted to her after her death about how angry at God she was, because Vickie would never get to hold her first grandchild in her arms. I couldn't imagine losing my own mother now, let alone when I was pregnant with a baby.
So, that made me think about the imminence of death and finality of it. It's just amazing that things can all end in one instant. And then I thought about how it's just a sleep that lasts forever. So, you go to a place where you feel nothing anymore and you have no worries.
That made me think, then, about how--not happy, but somehow relieved that the people that we lose don't have to deal with the things we do anymore; but that all comes down to love. We hurt, because we love and we know that the people that we love, we can't hold anymore. It's just an awful thing.
Until next time-
Jade
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