Oh Mama!

The human body is such a fragile thing.  It doesn’t seem like it when everything works as it should or until you are faced with the idea of your life being changed forever.  It can be taken for granted that we will always see or walk or dance or be able to take care of ourselves.  Youth makes us feel invincible.  Middle age makes us feel confident and comfortable. Then there is the winter of life when deep reflection takes place.  Where do the years go?

My mother injured herself this week and it dawned on me that she is elderly now.  She’s a beautiful woman whose face looks a decade and a half younger than she her seventy four years. I call her vampire because she looks exactly the same in all of her pictures.  There is a family picture circa 1978-1980 where her looks are indistinguishable from today!  My mom truly proves that black don’t crack. 

She is always out and about doing activities from art to exercise, from church to babysitting. She loves shopping, and is always involved in family business.  Because she is always so busy, I never stopped to realize that she is getting up in age.  When I saw her unable to help herself, I wondered, how did mom get old that quickly?  When the paramedics rushed her to the hospital, the worst possible scenarios entered my mind.  My heart almost stopped.  I don’t know what I would do if my mother was no longer a part of this world.  She is the rock of my family.  She is love personified.  Not only does she depend on us, we all depend on her.  I can’t even conceive of a world existing without her.  I praise God that she was released from the hospital.  Now, we have to keep watch over her and make sure that she does not injure herself again, and that we keep her in our prayers and support her as she faces impending surgeries.

Times like this I have to take a deep breath and trust that God knows what is best for us all and that everything will work according to God’s purpose.  That is the only peace that I can stomach at the moment.   I pray that God will heal my mother completely and grant her many healthy happy years to come. I look to Jeremiah 17:14 which says, “Heal me, LORD, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.”  I ask that God heal her and save her in every possible way a person can be saved.  I also look to Psalms 30:2 which says, “O Lord my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.”  Lord I cry to you for help at this moment and I ask that you hear me and heal my mother.  For your son Yeshua said to the ailing woman, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.” (Luke 8:48).  I ask that the Lord extend the same proclamation to my mother.  We all have faith that there is nothing impossible with God.  Now is the time to utilize this faith and keep our outlook completely positive.  I do not know what the future may hold, but I know that God will get us through it.  Faith, hope, love, I’m depending on all three of these to help God’s spirit to move.  Keep us in prayer and remember to love hard and live free!