M'Lady

Some years ago I met a Lady.

This lady is kind, sweet, generous with praise, frugal with criticism, loving, gentle … if there’s a word with connotations of the best characteristics of humanity, it fits this lady.

I can see her, in a day gone by now, surrounded by her children, in the arms of her husband, glowing with a serenity and calm peace amid a chaotic world of her very own. Her happiness flows to cover all around her with a golden rainbow aura; she is the center of her world and she knows it, revels in it, celebrates it.

When one day she is gone still she will be the center of the world she has graced with her love for so very long. It will not have to go on without her because she has been, is, and will forever be M’Lady. Her gifts live in and through her children, their children, and those yet to come.

Every once in a great while the world is home to one that is destined to generate in others such love and devotion, admiration and respect, that the qualities which inspire others seem to embrace them, become a part of them, are shared and  passed on by them … and so are eternal.

Such a one is M’Lady.

One day it will be time for her to return to the arms of the husband she has been missing for many years. Their reunion will be filled with joy and, together once more, they will watch over their children with even more love than ever.

Having had the privilege of meeting M'Lady and being granted the blessing of getting to spend time with her … it’s something pretty special. I will be eternally grateful for the chance to know her.