HallelujahYou were an angel in the shape of my mumYou got to see the person I have becomeSpread your wings and I knowThat when God took you back he said HallelujahYou’re home-Ed Sheeran, “Supermarket Flowers” Ed Sheeran wrote “Supermarket Flowers” following the death of his grandmother. The song, written in the first person, reflects theContinueContinue reading “Sunday Meditation: “Supermarket Flowers” (Ed Sheeran)”
Tag Archives: Mother’s Day
Monday Meditation: The Promise (Tracy Chapman)
RememberingYour touchYour kissYour warm embraceI’ll find my way back to youPlease say you’ll be waiting-Tracy Chapman, “The Promise” I listened to “The Promise” the other day while playing with my daughter. I hadn’t heard it in years. Amidst pandemic uncertainties, my first Mother’s Day as a motherless mother, and missing my mom, the lyrics touchedContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: The Promise (Tracy Chapman)”
Mother’s Day 2018
Mother’s Day is this weekend. I keep forgetting about it. Not having a mother will do that to you. My email is full of helpful “reminders” of the day from internet companies I have bought gifts through over the past year. Even before my mother died I always wondered about people who had terrible relationshipsContinueContinue reading “Mother’s Day 2018”
Mom
Today’s is Mother’s Day…and I just lost my mother. There is little to say, no Top 10 lists of what mom taught me that adequately capture everything I learned from her during our time together. Instead, I’d like to share the words I wrote for her funeral service, words that celebrated our mother-daughter time togetherContinueContinue reading “Mom”