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I hope that I can make it through writing this tonight. I’m sitting here crying as fast as I can type. I wish there were words that could express what I’m feeling in my heart. It’s a mixture of sadness wrapped in a layer of happiness.
I was with my family tonight, and I took a good long hard look at what I have been blessed with, and I don’t feel worthy of such love, compassion, and wealth. I feel that I have to be the wealthiest person in the world. I looked at my dad who is 82 years old, and I had such pride in my heart. All I wanted to do was just sit there and look at him. Sometimes I find myself wondering how much time I have left with him. He is such a handsome man, and I’m so honored to be his daughter. My mom and dad never gave me a lot of worldly things, but what they have instilled in me is worth its weight in gold.
I wanted to embrace my brother and sister tonight, as we all worked together to raise money for my niece who was recently diagnosed with Adenocarcinoma, cancer of the lungs. She is 35, and has 3 young children. I have watched her life just slipping away before me, and it breaks my heart into. I have watched my brother grieve and not be able to do anything but cry with him.
We gave her a benefit singing tonight and I was amazed at the turnout. During a time when good jobs are scarce and with an economy that’s at its worst, we were able to raise $10,000.
People came from everywhere, and friends that I had not seen in years came and brought so many things to be auctioned off. People were buying cakes for $300.00 each, and it was amazing to see how they reached out to my little niece who has struggled all her life.
Oh, how my prayer is that she will be healed, but if her time is close, I hope that she was able to feel the love that I was able to feel tonight. So many people are praying for her, and everyone wanted to reach out to do what they could. So tonight, my heart is sad for her, because I can see the pain that she’s in, and I wish that I could take part of that from her, if but for a season, but I can’t. Yet at the same time, I feel the sadness is wrapped in a bundle of love because I have a family that pulls together, and there is not one of us that hurt that the others are not hurting with them.
Nor is there one of us that is successful without the other being successful too. Our mom and dad have instilled in us the importance of family and the importance of loving each other and holding each other up, when one is not able to do so for themselves.
I have a brother and sister that would walk through fire for me, and I feel so blessed. I feel so much love in my heart right now, that I can’t contain it. Life is so precious and time is so short, and I want to encourage all of you to take a good hard long look at your life, and note all of the good things in your life; especially the people that are in it.
Take the time to let them know how much you appreciate them. Don’t focus on what you’ve got to do, or all the things that could be going wrong, but embrace what you have, and all that is going right.
So tonight, I’m looking at all my wealth. To my mom and dad, I salute you, and to my brother and sister, I adore you. To my sons, you’re the air I breathe, and to my grandsons, you’re my hope for tomorrow, and to all my friends, you’re the icing on the cake, and last but not least, to my sweet little niece, sweet baby girl, I love you, and I’m praying for you.
Praying for a healing,
Aunt Glenda
