This has been a very trying week in the Murphy household. Among other things, my Grandma Martin was put on hospice. After leading a very happy and fulfilling life she is suffering from heart failure and was given about 2 weeks to live.
She is completely at peace with her diagnosis. She is a wonderful Christian women and is ready to go home. Spending time with her the past couple days has made me remember several important things. The most important is this:
When asked what she has learned in her full life and what she would like to pass down to her family she said this: "Be considerate and love people." She went on to tell a story about a neighbor boy she grew up with. They were the same age and were friendly towards each other (she went on to say this had nothing to do with sex, which is young peoples problem today, but that's another story). When she got married and moved to the other side of town she didn't see that boy again. Just this year she attended a friend's funeral and was introduced to that boy. She said "I am real happy I was friendly with that boy, because you never know who you will meet later".
I love this. It is such a simple concept yet so many people forget it or never learned it. In today's culture it is more common to burn a bridge then it is to loose touch with somebody. How many of us have ducked into the other aisle when we see a familiar face coming towards us?
At the end of this dear women's life this is what she held onto. She was friendly to everyone and "never met anybody she couldn't love real well." What a great example.
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