Air Force Ones A Mothers Parting Gift

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My mother was such a bright light, despite being brought up during the Blitz in London. She had witnessed the utter devastation of the bombs exploding and homes collapsing with her young playmates inside and I could not even imagine what this experience could do to a young orphaned soul. She had nowhere to go and was faced with a big choice of how her life could go - consciously she chose life and to be a light to others.
I took her for drives in the small country lanes; she always noticed the blossoming flowers, the bright rainbows and all that is beautiful in the world
Living thousands of miles apart, this meant not only a great journey emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically and time was of the essence. I swung into therapist mode and was sure that she would get through this and I would guide her to see how.
In the sixteen years that I have been in the field of healing arts I have experienced others with a great sense of hopelessness and purposelessness change their lives around. I have seen people that have been given a death sentence ‘regress it’ and I have seen those that have been shot, tortured and witnessed the murder of loved ones be full of compassion and empty of bitterness.
This would be the third time that cancer had intruded into her very full and giving life. I recalled her comforting me 25 years previous when she was first diagnosed with Cancer - she was in a convalescence home which was a beautifully restored castle in the south of England. She intuitively knew which patients would live and which ones would die, by their faith and their attitude to their life and to their sickness.

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All of these different facets of the human spirit have been such a great inspiration and a privilege for me to have witnessed and so it was with great sadness that the news came from Jersey that my beautiful mother had been diagnosed with terminal Cancer.
Would this time now her third be any different? Indeed it would and she greeted me with a bright smile [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but I could also see she had grown tired and had a weary physical self. I sensed her soul ached to be free, but the rest of her was not so sure about departing as she had so much living to do and was not ready to leave yet.