Bad news abounds in my world this week. I just found out my best friend has incurable cancer. It struck fast and she is very sick. She has been in my life for the past 20 years and this is very hard for me. A big part of me will go with her. Momma Said, “Hold your friends close and never let them go, no matter what.”
It seems to me that you only get one chance in life to have a friend like that. Even when she is gone, she will always be with me. I need to celebrate her life but it is going to be hard going on without her. Taking life for granted seems to be a mainstay these days and she is still a young woman. Momma Said, “Life will have a very large hole in it.”
This situation brings to mind the analogy that you just have to Dance like nobody is watching; Sing like there is nobody listening; and Live like it is Heaven on earth. My little buddy will be dancing with the angels and she won’t care if anybody hears her sing.
Alan Jackson had a song out just about the time mom passed that was titled www.memories.com. That is one thing that we can cherish as time goes by. The memories are a treasure that will outlast cancer and every other disease known to man. I will carry her memory with me always.
No recipe can measure up to my friend so I will sign off this week with this to you, Momma Said, “My bank account may be bare, but I am a rich woman with the memories I have of friends and family.”
