Norman Rockwell was an artist who painted many different scenes starting in the early 1900s. Most of them were of big happy families or modern homes. If your family wasn’t like the latest magazine cover, you might have felt inadequate or that something was missing in your life. My family certainly could have never posed for an issue but that never bothered me. Our holidays were fun and I smile when I think about them. Like everyone does, I thought they would last forever.
But as time goes on, things happen and our lives are forever altered. With sadness I sit and think about all we have lost. And a tear slowly slides down my cheek. For I know life will never be the same.
I weep for the mother who will not hold her daughter’s hand as she walks into her kindergarten class for the first time and for the mother who will never straighten a cap on graduation day. For the mother who asked her son what his unborn children’s name would one day be and for the father who will never walk his daughter down the aisle, I weep. For the grandfathers who missed Eagle Scout ceremonies and the grandmothers who loved to rock grandchildren, I weep. I shed tears for the grandparents who never saw the great grandchild named for them and for the great grandmothers who were the hub that held the spokes of the family.
In the stillness of the day, I mourn what will never again be. But I thank God for the time we had, the memories we shared and the traditions that I hope will continue as the years pass by.
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