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April 16, 2006

A Long and Good Life Comes to An End

Claire Wolfe writes about a life and death that we should all aspire to. From Claire’s article:

“Mrs. Nat was ‘nobody.’ No one at her funeral could extol her worldly accomplishments. She never held high office, never won an academic prize, never wrote a book, founded a company, or funded a billion-dollar charity. She wasn't rich or famous or beautiful. She never starred in a movie or appeared on the cover of People magazine (or even the front page of the Hardyville Independent for that matter). She never invented anything more important than a more delicious way to make chocolate cake.

But anybody looking and listening around that circle could know that Mrs. Nat had done all the things that really counted. She had loved and been loved. She had given and received graciously. She had laughed hard and softly cuddled her grandbabies. And in her gentle, peacemaking way, she had been free and helped raise generations of children in freedom.”

I hope my obituary is this good.

Posted by Ali Massoud at April 16, 2006 10:57 AM

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