There is HOPE... My Mom had passed away in December of 2015 from cancer. My mom had a business for over 30 years and her parents had been in the same building with their business for many years. A few months after my Mom passed away we had to close the building down. We didn’t have any money to pay for utilities or keep it open. We had to sell it. (That building was in my family for many years. It has since been torn down.)
The building was a big part of our lives and my earliest memories involve visiting my grandparents there. My parents lived in one of the apartments upstairs when they were first married.
In the early spring of 2016, I was sitting alone in that building looking around. I know it sounds strange, but I almost felt like I was killing it, by turning off the utilities. I looked around and all of my mom’s plants were dead since no one was there to water them. As I started to cry I looked across the room and saw this plant! It was in full bloom even through no one had been there to care for it since before my mom passed away.
I felt like it was a sign from my mom saying everything will be OK. I took the plant home and cared for it. It was with me through my brain tumor and two surgeries. The plant never bloomed after that.
The last couple of weeks, I was feeling so anxious and sad about changes at my work and uncertain times and sadness with this virus. This Holy Week is going to be so different with no one being at the church. It’s the holiest season in the Christian church. For the first time in four years since my mother’s death the plant has bloomed.! It’s telling me that my mother is with me and God is with all of us. There is always hope even in the most tragic and uncertain times.
