As Mother's Day approaches my mind flashes back to last year and the emotion that surrounded the day. Rick's mother had just passed away (she was a month shy of being 90)and as he was dealing with the funeral arrangements I was boarding a plane to Germany. I was going to "hand deliver" the anniversary gift that Cory was surprising Tricia with. We had joked about not trusting it to the mail, considering the last electronic item we mailed disappeared and it took FOREVER to get the claim processed and the money back! Plus it was Jeffrey's first birthday and Mother's Day all tucked into the time I was going to be there.
It turned out to be such a memorable trip. Not only was the weather incredible but the sites we visited in Germany and Austria were beyond description. We strolled through an open merchandise market in Austria, leaned over a hedge to catch a glimpse of a centuries old cemetery in Bertchesgarten, kinked my neck looking up at the cathedrals in Nuremburg, enjoyed a spur of the moment picnic overlooking a site so "German" that it still plays on Rick's screensaver, and the list goes on and on. It was an experience I knew I wouldn't have the chance to repeat.
Brian and Chris were such a support to Rick during that painful week and it was greatly appreciated. And now a whole year later how all our lives have changed.
I heard a talk given by Teryl Givens at BYU and from his message I took a sentence I found so significant I have it framed in my office. It says, "The choices we make are the purest expression of who we are and what we love." As I reflect on the meaning of those few words I realize how important even my smallest choices are and as I get older I realize that those choices revolve around family and my love for them.
May you choose well.
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