"You have decided the length of our lives..." Job14:5

Lots of prayers, please?  My dearest friend who has been like a mother to me for the past 30 years has been in Hospice Atlanta for the past 6 weeks.  Every day she gets closer to the time when she will pass over.  I'm so glad that I am off school so I can spend these days with her.  Yesterday was a good day...she was able to get out of the bed and sit in her wheelchair in the doorway to the garden outside her room, smell the grass being cut, feel the gentle breeze on her face, hear the birds sing.  Today she was too tired to try it.  But I was able to coax her to eat some supper.  Her other friends and I occasionally catch glimpses of her feisty, spicy self and laugh with joy.  Yesterday, it was her in a barely audible voice warning  the six hospice workers who were putting her in the wheelchair, "My friend [me] knows how to pick good lawyers..."  Today, it was her giving "the eyebrow" warning to her best friend who is like a sister to her when Florence felt she had been a bit "cheeky". I look to those instances as gifts from the Lord. Last minute treasures to hold in my memory...last week watching a whole movie with her, getting her to eat a quarter of a peanut butter sandwich made on her favorite bread with her favorite DFM peanut butter...this week, a shared garden doorway communion, a raised eyebrow that I know so well. We do not know when our time nor anyone else's will be. All we know for sure is that we must not neglect to "seize the day" for this IS the day the Lord hath made...and I will be glad in it.