01/04/2026
Well… now that I allowed myself to release those familiar, lingering pains, I might as well get up and start getting ready. As the saying goes the show must go on.
No days off until Friday… but that’s when my heart will finally be filled again maybe even overflow with joy. I get to have my daughter with me this weekend for Easter. We’ll celebrate my father’s birthday on Saturday to add it’s also my sister’s birthday back in California true story, and Sunday is even more special because it’s Easter and my mother’s birthday.
She may not be here physically, but her love still surrounds me. Her memory lives in everything good I try to pass on, especially to my daughter. And that kind of presence? That kind of love? That’s more than enough to lift me up once again. All my favorite people to celebrate all while having to do so with my beautiful babygirl.
Even in the sadness, God reminds me that joy is coming.
Morning Prayer:
Dear God,
Thank You for letting me feel what I need to feel and still giving me the strength to rise. Thank You for memories that never fade and the deep love that never leaves, even when the people we love have gone home to You.
This Easter, I hold my mother close in spirit. Let her light shine through me. Let her love continue in the way I love my daughter.
Please give me peace today, and guide me with the kind of strength only You can provide. Remind me that even in grief, joy is still on the way.
