Do you know how precious and loveable you are?
A sweet, tender soul lay in her bed at hospice. She was in her nineties. There was no husband and there were no children by her side – she had been single her whole life. Her inner beauty shone about her like a celestial light. I was drawn into her orbit.
Is it possible to love people instantaneously? I say yes. It happens to me all the time. It seems easy and natural to me. Knowing the correct response is the difficult part.
She was the kind of person that you wish you could have known your entire life.
Over several weeks I visited her, held her hand, listened to her story and sang to her. I would tell her that she was so precious and so loveable. She would not reply, she simply looked at me.
The last time I saw her I said, “You are a true innocent, aren’t you? You have absolutely no idea how precious and loveable you are, do you?” She replied, “Well, you seem to think I am.”
I was unable to return to hospice for two weeks because I didn’t want to spread the very bad cold that I came down with. Two weeks later when I finally did return, I learned that my sweet friend had passed away.
I mourn the passing of this wonderful lady that I barely knew. My sadness is conquered by my great joy in having had her pass through my life.
God bless and keep you sweet lady. Please, look for my Mom up there and tell her that you met her child.
Butterflies don’t know the beauty of their wings.
Butterflies can see beauty around them,
yet they have no idea how beautiful they are themselves.
People don’t know the beauty of their hearts.
People can love the precious people and things around them,
yet people have absolutely no idea how precious, and loveable they are themselves.
Don’t just see the beauty in others – tell them.
For some, it is the only way that they will know.