Thankful – the word is an adjective defined as feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative. Today has been a day of bad news about church members who have passed. One friend in particular buried her father three weeks ago, only to lose her mother this morning. It is heartbreaking and my condolence goes out to her and her family.
At times like these, I have to give thanks for my mother and the good health she is enjoying despite having gone through a procedure to insert a pacemaker, which records and controls her fluctuating heart beats. To see her today, one won’t believe two years ago, she was in poor health. As I watch her today, one month shy of her 87th birthday, I marvel that she still takes the bus to get around, wears high-heeled shoes, and can out-dance many young people. I am thankful – glad to be able to enjoy her for as long as she has on this side of heaven.
