The Kindness of Friends

Wow, its been quite the week since my Mom passed away, with some high highs and some low lows. I am not usually one who is easy to cry, but I have been this week. What I have noticed though is that at my lowest moments, the kindness and generosity of friends has been right there to pick me up. I have received beautiful texts and emails, flower arrangements, notifications of donations to Mom’s favourite causes, and encouraging prayers, Scripture references, and beautiful songs meant to comfort and support me in my grief.

Today has been no exception. I went to M and M’s, a frozen food store, where I would go every Tuesday to pick up some frozen entrees for my Mom. Mom loved to try everything new that came out in the catelogue! Today, I was just shopping for my household and the order was much smaller. The unsuspecting store clerk asked, “Where’s your Mom’s order?” I promptly burst into tears! Oh man!

I made a rapid escape from the store and went home, instead of continuing the rest of my planned shopping trip. When I got there, there was a mysterious package by my front door. I hadn’t ordered anything from Amazon. What could it be? I went inside and opened the package. It was from a friend in Boston. It turned out to be some baked goods from a fancy store in Toronto. My friend knows I love chocolate so I wasn’t surprised to find that he had sent some beautiful specialty brownies and chocolate cookies. As I got a hug from my partner, and we sat down with coffee in hand to enjoy some of these treats, suddenly all was well again in my world.

Yay for the mysterious timing and the kindness of friends! Hallelujah!