In honor of my mom in this Mother’s Day, I want to share with you some of her last words to me as she was dying:
“Don’t be afraid of death. Death is peace. God is giving me great peace. Yesterday, I felt like Jesus on the cross. He did that for us and he did not even know us. He could have taken himself down, but he stayed on that cross for us. I wanted to be taken down from that cross. I wanted the pain to go away, but I offered up all of that pain. They asked me how bad was the pain on a scale of 1-10…I told them it was a 12. (She laughed). As I was dying, I thought most of my children. The ones I love the most, and I was afraid of losing that love. I love you, Michael, and I am so blessed to have you as my son. Every day, I make the sign of the cross and thank God for everything he has given me and for everything he has taken away. Thy will be done, Jesus. I’m going to make it to my 100th birthday and you need to have a big party.”