20.11.22 For what am I thankful?

Joy & Peace

• in the midst of sorrow outside but underlying joy and peace inside as I see God's timing & provision.
• My mother had a difficult final 6 years of her life due to Alzheimer's disease
• My mother died on March 13, early this year in her 89th year.

God's Timing for Myself

• January in Canada for CNY break.
• COVID-19 school delayed Taiwan so my 2 daughters and me spent 2 weeks extra time in Canada with her (thank God for my children)
• after coming back to Taiwan, when heard she was dying was able to have a cheap flight back to Canada and spent last 28 hours with her. (if a few days later could not have travelled due to COVID19)

God's Timing in the dates of my mother's life

• Taking her home before COVID-19 forced her into isolation.

Last Day of Mother’s Life: Reading the Bible starting Genesis

• spent reading her Bible to her — the passages that she had highlighted over the years
• The last verse I read to her was Matthew 10:39. 得著生命的，將要失喪生命；為我失喪生命的，將要得著生命。」
• The next verse (that we did not read before she died) that she had highlighted was: Matthew 11:28-29 凡勞苦擔重擔的人可以到我這裡來，我就使你們得安息。我心裡柔和謙卑，你們當負我的軛，學我的樣式；這樣，你們心裡就必得享安息
• After 6 years of limited memory and cognition but still emotions and feeling, my mother had gone to be with Jesus and her husband.

Children

• Aien (eldest child): he went back to Canada for senior high school to care for my mother. She spent 6 years visiting and supporting my mother. She spent 72 hours not stop beside my mother as I and my sister were on our way back to Canada. Thank God for such a wonderful daughter.