Angel Watching Over Me
Wednesday, March 15th was the fifth anniversary of my mother’s passing. Ever since my mother became very ill a month before her death, I have processed my emotions through music. That has only increased since then. All my life, my mother has been the angel watching over me – whether in life or after her passing. This song conveys how I feel about her.
Thirty minutes before I needed to leave for my Tuesday night pottery class, I sat at my piano and a melody emerged. It felt very much like my mother and how I feel about her love for me. I turned on the recorder and started again, capturing the song with my computer. I call it, “Angel Watching Over Me.” I quickly set the piano piece to some photos of sunsets, the moon, and clouds that I took last week.
These words from her eulogy I gave sum up the feeling of this song for me:
“Throughout everything I have done in my life, my mother has been my cheerleader, my greatest fan. I believe there is nothing more priceless in life than to have someone who believes in you, who will acknowledge the heavy burdens you carry, show sympathy, but have the faith that somehow, someway you’re going to pull through.
Mama was a person I knew I could go to and ask her to pray for me. I knew her mother’s love would cut through the clouds like a beacon of light and call down the blessings of heaven upon my head. I am so blessed to have had a mother who let me know in a million ways that I am loved, that I matter to her and that I matter to God.”
The Apostle Paul wrote, “Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” I feel and know that the same goes for mothers. Height, nor depth, nor any creature can separate me from my mother’s love. It is pure and holy, timeless and eternal as the love of my Savior. Her love IS my Savior’s love.
Nothing could ever restrain Mama’s love for us or her tender loving care. She has always been our angel mother, and she will ever be… now with more power and glory and even more access to the Savior’s grace. I feel her near. She is with me in my thoughts. She is forever in my heart. Forever in my soul.”
Marnie Pehrson Kuhns, Eulogy for Betty White Morton, given March 21, 2017
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