Blanket of love

We just spent a wonderful weekend at our family reunion at Barkley Lake at Land Between the Lakes in Western Kentucky. What a wonderful renewal of spirit. Family, a strong and comforting word in every sense. To embrace, pray, cry, sing, laugh, share. To watch our children and grandchildren interact and make memories. To embrace and spend time with my loving Father and Mother, to have the opportunity to tell my uncle Jim and aunt Becky how much I appreciated the memories they created for us as children. To embrace my sisters and tell them how much I love them. To spend time with my grandchildren and daughters and son in law. Cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. Irreplaceable moments in our lives. I was gratefully presented with a blanket that my mother and sisters crochet'd for me. The color of my birthstone, Ruby. I was placed in a chair in the middle of the room and presented with my beautiful blanket of love. The blanket was then passed to each person in the room with words from the heart expressed at each passing. A moment I will never forget and a blanket I will cherish forever. I hold it in my lap at this moment. I am immersed in the love that embraces me through this gesture of love. My youngest sister also presented all of the women in the family with a hand made charm with my name engraved in it representing uterine cancer. I know without a doubt that the love of my husband and family carried me through the darkness of my struggle with cancer and gently set me down on the horizon of my new life. In unending love and appreciation, I thank you!