Its my mother's anniversary of passing this week. She died a number of years ago when I was a mere teenager (ok nearly 30 years ago) which is a strange time to lose a parent particularly your mum.
Anyway, I always think about her at this time when the nights are drawing in and its a bit dingy. For some reason November reminds me of her wearing a medal for church. A miraculous medal. She was big on catholicism and Mary's graces were/are passed to those wearing the medal . No idea whether there is a connection with November and the medal in the catholic calender. This has me thinking about grace and what is grace.
The dictionary describes grace as the state of receiving a positive benefit (sometimes one we don't seemingly deserve). It's a greek word meaning "affording joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, loveliness." From what I remember my mother like many mothers had lots of grace and distributed lots of it too.
I wonder if she wore the medal to receive grace, give grace or what- No idea. It's one of those things that I will probably never know along with lots of other things those of us who have lost significant people will never know about them. So here's to miraculous mothers with or without medals.If your mother is still around send her some grace today.If she's not, accept some from me- you deserve it you miraculous person you.
Marie x
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