EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON
There is an old,old saying, we've all heard it many times.
"Everything happens for a reason", and for a long time, I could not figure out why.
If everything happened for a reason, then how could you possibly explain,
all the many, atrocities in life, that cause us so much pain.
Like prejudice, war and hunger, domestic violence, and child abuse.
I didn't care to explain it, there was really no excuse!
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Then one day something happened, that forever changed my life.
A single event, I thought for sure, would fill me with anger, and strife.
My mother was taken from us suddenly, in a car accident she died.
At first I said, "This makes no sense. A reason?......... Spirit, tell me why?"
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Suddenly, on my shoulder, I felt a loving hand,
and my mom said very clearly, "don't panic, I'm in the Promised Land".
"Sit down and relax my dear, for me, there's nothing you can do,
but our family, and friends will need you, and to them you must be true".
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Before this wretched day happened my mother's health was ill,
emphysema was taking her life, she tried to make the best of it, but she suffered from it still.
" You know mom, you might want to try some oxygen to help you catch your breath ".
To that she said, "If I had to drag a tank around, I'd much rather be dead ".
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That conversation came right back to me when my Mother sat me down.
That in fact, it just might be a gift, and there were other things I found.
There were some things between us that made it very hard
for me to take charge and make my play, when the Dealer delt my cards
The things she tried to do for me weren't helping me at all,
She always kept the secrets instead of letting me stand tall.
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I came to believe that even though my pain seemed terribly hard to bare,
It was easier to think she left this world quick, rather than not being able to breath, and scared.
You know, there just might be some heavenly truth to that saying we were talking about.
Because suddenly I saw the reason why she didn't live her whole life out.
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She could not give me what I needed to make it in this life,
and that would never change.
and,she was much too good a person to die in so much pain,
So the One who is in charge, decided the schedule to rearrange.
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Five fleeting years have quickly gone since my wonderful mother has passed.
My life has changed, I'm accomplishing things that I never would have guessed.
And not one single day goes by that she herself does say.
"Everything happens for a reason, my child,
and I am sure it's much better this way".
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Written for you mom, on the 5th anniverary (Aug.5,1994)of the day you taught me the most important lesson of my life. I love you, C.A.Thompson
