This is my mother.  She adopted me when I was one year old.  We have been through a lot in my life. She has lived with me and my family for the past 11 years.  The last 5 have proved especially difficult as she has had Dementia.  She is currently in the process of dying.  It is the most difficult experience of my life.  I know in my head that she is 89 and has lived a long full life and has served Jesus for nearly all of it, and yet my heart is hurting so.  I am watching her lying in that bed taking only small sips of water now and everything in me wants to scream "Get up and be you again!"  It is not to be.  She is slowly slipping away.  I am blessed to have been raised by a godly mother and father.  They didn't do everything perfectly but they showed me the path to Jesus and I accepted.  That is the greatest gift they gave me.  I love you Mom!