Comfort, grace, joy, and gratitude
My Mom sent me and my brothers the following e-mail on Saturday, October 17, 2009. Do you know, my family, what tomorrow is? It is your sister, Dorothy Anne's birthday!! Even if she wasn't alive on this her birthday (she was stillborn), I have been thinking about her all week!! What would she have looked like now, what kind of a person would she be, would she be a help or otherwise to me? But we won't know will we, until we see her in Heaven! Yes, she is definitely in Heaven (because she was baptized by the nurse at the time of delivery) and so she can pray for all of us struggling here below! She is up there with Our Lord and our and her Blessed Mother, and her Grandmother Batty, with whom she shares her birthday! Tomorrow or tonight when you say your prayers or tomorrow (or tonight) when you go to Mass remember her for me will you?? Love, Mom Mom’s letter got me reflecting about a deep subject that’s easy to describe but extremely difficult to com...