Brevity of life...

Been a hectic week. My father-in-law fell ill and within a week he was gone. Hospital visits, the stress of helplessness, funeral arrangements and then it was over. The whole thing feels a little surreal now, probably because the 'briefness' of everything made it feel like a roller coaster ride. The ups and downs came rather quickly and before we even adjusted to it, it was over.

The support from family and friends was awesome. My father-in-law was the quietest and humblest man I've ever known, a man who tried to live to his faith...

The brevity of life... life is like a candle. One moment burning, then no more. I learn this too, you find the extraordinary in the ordinary. We often think of the extraordinary as spectacular, visible, huge, etc. But sometimes the extraordinary is just the opposite. They come in the forms often not acknowledged by the world as extraordinary; humility, gentleness, kindness, forbearing, filial piety at their most humanly possible truest forms. I saw a lot of those in his ordinary and unassuming life... and that was how people who came spoke of him.

Two funerals in less than 6 months..... used to be grandma and he will cover us in prayers faithfully and I think we'll miss that comforting knowledge that they are covering us with their prayers.