Elizabeth Bevins

Time is an interesting thing. It can be “on our side,” or it can be “running out.” Time can be “against us,” or it can be something we think we have “a lot of.”

“Timing is everything,” or sometimes it simply seems to not be “the right time.”

One sentence can literally “make time standstill.” Events in all of our lives create “timelines,” clearly defining what our lives were before and what are lives have now become.

My Mom was raised in a very violent home, and she then married my Father, who sadly was also violent and abusive. When my Mom was dying, and I asked her why we stayed, her response was that “it was too late for her… that there was no time, but that I did not ever have to live that way.”

My life was forever changed when her doctor said, “There is nothing more that we can do.” This sentence was spoken a short time before she passed away, days after Mother’s Day.

My mom must have miscalculated the “time” that she had in her life. I believe that if she knew all of what would be, she would have worked very hard to make every minute matter.

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