Tears are nature's way of healing the pain . It was a small gathering of family and friends yesterday but with an abundance of tears . Father Pat was the priest who did the service . Not knowing the person who passed away and without knowledge of her life he did a wonderful tribute to a woman who touched the lives of her sons , daughters and grandchildren . He talked of his own father and how he always tried not to be like him , but in the end had a lot of his ways and came to treasure those characteristics in himself . After the prayers , he asked the family if there was but one word they could each give him about their Mother , what would that one word be ? Love , courage , humour , tenderness , kindness . Father Pat asked the family to remember the positive words that they just used to describe their Mother as those were the divine gifts that she has left behind in each one of them . Anything negative was simply a part being human . A successful life is never measured in what we have but who we are . If any one of us could be described with those same words then our lives would be a success as well . The priest wanted them understand that their Mom lived through them and was not gone but only changed . Father Pat is a wonderful man and a priest with grace , humour and compassion .
It's okay to cry .
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