Yesterday I attended the funeral for the mother of a young man I have mentored and coached for the past eight years. She was only fifty-six years old.
Anita didn’t have the easiest of times in living her life. She was a single mom who raised two girls and two boys all by herself. It’s safe to assume the kids were raised in poverty. Remarkably though, each of her kids spoke at her funeral and one by one they outdid the next in sharing real-life stories about the various ways their mother loved them.
I did a lot of praying and reflecting throughout the one-hour celebration of Anita’s life. I thought about a conversation I had with a friend about a month earlier. His best friend had passed unexpectedly and he shared his disappointment with me in how his friend’s family had a falling out shortly after the funeral because they were arguing over his friend’s money.
My take-away from yesterday’s funeral…if you want your family to argue about something after you’ve left this earth—live and love in such a way that they debate over who you loved the most.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8, “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.”
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
