You know it hit me the other day, while talking about Mother and Janice and Jeremy, that we don't always know how the decisions that we make will affect everyone like they do. We live one day at a time and make choices each day that affect everything down the road.
Do you realize that Mother gave Janice an amazing opportunity of growth to have Jeremy? We all wanted a family and were pretty determined when it came time go out and find love. Janice was protected, but boy when she saw an opportunity for love from a man, she took it. And from then on each day, because of love and devotion, Mother helped Janice be a Mother.
Janice had been Mother's helper for 40 years. I remember Mother saying, "I don't know how we would have done it with out Janice. " So she gave back to Janice when the opportunity came. At some point, Mother decided she wanted to give Jeremy the opportunity to be raised like her other children had been. It was her upbringing, her heritage, that made her have these values and depth of love in her.
She knew that Jeremy would need special attention and her values put her making the next step that she felt would be good for them.
I was explaining how Janice was part of our lives to my friend and then found myself going into how Mother lived with them and all the years of devotion to them. Then realized that Mother was unknowingly giving back to Janice after all that she had done for all of us.
We all have this loving heritage and need to praise God for it. When you look out into the world and see peoples empty lives, fretting about their lawsuits and fussing about their perscriptions, you just have to realize what God blessed us all with coming from hard working, deeply loving, independent, courageous people. We have good blood running thru our viens. Lets keep working on these values.
Love Ruth
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