We must celebrate mismatched dinner plates and chipped coffee mugs,
Refrigerator magnets that we all rearranged and Pappaw’s hat hanging on a mounted deer head’s antlers.
We must celebrate our family coming together at the annual Lion’s Club Fair Parade to collect Tootsie Rolls for Mammaw.
It won’t be long and she’ll be gone.
We must celebrate the tattered chair that sat by the gas heater,
And the Ten Commandments hanging on the wall next to a school photo of one of the grandchildren.
We must celebrate the memory Mammaw had before the Alzheimer’s took it away,
Praise God: The memories we have with her can never be stolen from us.
We must celebrate the closeness of family through tragedy.
Once broken,
Now tighter than ever before.
We must celebrate the peace found in death.
A long road of suffering
Ending with “She’s in a better place.”
For that, we must celebrate.
Refrigerator magnets that we all rearranged and Pappaw’s hat hanging on a mounted deer head’s antlers.
We must celebrate our family coming together at the annual Lion’s Club Fair Parade to collect Tootsie Rolls for Mammaw.
It won’t be long and she’ll be gone.
We must celebrate the tattered chair that sat by the gas heater,
And the Ten Commandments hanging on the wall next to a school photo of one of the grandchildren.
We must celebrate the memory Mammaw had before the Alzheimer’s took it away,
Praise God: The memories we have with her can never be stolen from us.
We must celebrate the closeness of family through tragedy.
Once broken,
Now tighter than ever before.
We must celebrate the peace found in death.
A long road of suffering
Ending with “She’s in a better place.”
For that, we must celebrate.