Three Years Ago Today
My Aunt Kay passed away after a long illness. I'd known her since I was 8; she was my step dad's sister, his last living sibling. Prayers for her husband Ralph and sons, Keith and Jerry as well as the rest of their family are appreciated. She used to take me to church with her and have me spend the night at her house often when I was 12-14. She was a great cook, baker, funny, vivacious, spiritual woman with a wonderful heart, a terrific redhead who I would like to remember the way she was before she got so sick. I hadn't seen her in years because she lived in GA and I couldn't get back there. She used to spend so much time with me on the phone praying with me when I was a kid. She had beautiful eyes and a face that just lit up with her smile. Yesterday, several hours before I got the call she was in the process of dying, a cardinal was hanging out in this tree outside my window by my computer. I was pretty depressed when I got the call yesterday that she was in the pro...