Unbreakable Love in Her Eyes

Kindness, Mercy, Forgiveness, Church, Scripture, Prayer, Faith… Elvis Presley Gospel Hymns – words that are an integral part of who Memaw is and the impact that she graced on everyone who had the blessing of standing under her wings.

Throughout her life, Memaw desired to soar, to lift on wings like an Eagle, and go to her Savior, Jesus; and in that brief moment that we knew her in this world, God saw fit to keep her grounded just long enough that we should find shelter in time of need, under those wings of kindness, forgiveness, prayer and faith–Wings that were made to soar. But now, like Christ’s final breath on the cross, her work on earth is finished; she has given up the ghost; she has lifted off to a new, though old, task. And in her migration from this temporary place below to that eternal home above, she has left us with the very task she prepared us for- to serve, trust and love the Lord.

The moment that she alighted on the other side of Eternity’s Gates, she finally has fully soared to the heights of Heaven she longed for all her life. She stands in the fullness of Love Himself – God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. In that moment she began to completely do what she had trained for all her life and has trained us to do in return – Love her God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Of all the words we use to describe MeMaw, one word encompasses them all: LOVE.

She has shown us the way. Jesus is the way and His way is Love: a Love that sacrifices self; a Love that sees the depths of our faults and washes them clean: a Love that does not Love to a fault, but Loves past our faults; a Love that pushes us to be better than our faults; a Love that gives us victory in every trial; a Love that hides us under the shelter of its wings. Now it is our turn to Love. 

Unbreakable Love in her eyes.
Have you seen that kind of love?
Love that looks past time.
Love that forgives all fault.
Love that looks through your eyes
And sees your soul.  
Love that sees eternity
And does not blink.
Love that loves ever-gracefully.
Love like a vault.
Love that holds all of you inside.
Love that never dies.
Have you seen that kind of love?
Unbreakable love?
I have.
She is beautiful.

Sermon and Poem by Donald W. Catchings Jr. for his

Grandmother, Dora Hogland (MeMaw).