Visits home from California and Arizona usually center on crisis – coming home to help with medical needs or attending a funeral. So, when my sisters visit this time, just to spend time with mom while things are stable, it feels foreign.
It is a rare occasion when her three daughters are together for twenty-four hours, so we plan the day according to our mom’s wishes. My two older sisters and I, my husband and mother begin this Sunday morning going to church together.
During the worship service, before we offer prayers for those in our congregation in need of healing, we stand up and share joys and prayers of praise. I stand and say, “I give thanks that my sisters and I are together, even if it is just for 24 hours, and I give thanks that there is no crisis going on in our family now!”
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