My Mother-in-law is in her final days and yesterday I was speaking with my sister-in-law asking how her children were holding up.

She told me that her daughter prays for a miracle that her Gramma will be restored to health.

That of course is the simple prayer and wish a greiving child, but it not the thought the adults have, they wish for a good and peaceful death.  My sisiter-in-law tried to tell her but her daughter would have none of it.

But death does have it miralces.  The gathering of family can be a time to reconcile, to heal broken relationships and for some a time to take great stock in how life is being lived.  It is a time to honour the memory of the lost loved one by living life well, successfuly, prayerfully.

For us, our whole family, this death has been peaceful and at appropriate times, has had its moments of humour.

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