The Best Mom in the World: Recently I officiated at a small family memorial service. There was no obituary and the name of the woman we were remembering doesn't matter in the telling of the story. Like all lives, hers had its ups and downs and maybe a few more downs than most.
Listed among the deceased's survivors was a daughter who had not known her mom for much of her life. There had been a too-early birth and the baby had been adopted, a kind and generous decision of which no one knows the details anymore.