Grace was in all her steps

byMark175

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Updated 5 years ago

The picture shows my beloved mother’s reassuring hand guiding a slightly bewildered me down the aircraft steps at Barcelona airport in the early hours of a morning 54 years ago this month.

It’s now a week that’s passed since her funeral and I have, at last, found the lines to summarize a lifetime of unequivocal support and love that I received until April 10 of this year:

Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye,

In every gesture dignity and love

It is difficult to determine what happens, or should happen, next. Having cared for her, as promised, at home until her end, there is now a massive void, a vacuum of nothingness. Her selfless stoicism through the last five fading months is both a testament to her dignity and an enduring inspiration to me.

Obscurity or inspiration

So I either fade into a self-pitying, downward spiral of introspective grief or take inspiration from her calm, determined, yet restrained resolve.

It’s early days yet, but she would not have wanted corrosive negativity to be her epitaph. Rather, her boundless encouragement should remain an inspiration to achieve more once the rawness of the grief of recent bereavement begins to wane.

My recent membership of Wealthy Affiliates was undertaken as a means to provide an escape rout from the everyday drudgery of salaried employment. My commitment has suffered a hiatus over the last six weeks or so, but I now feel ready to re-engage my concentration to achieve something with WA.

Who knows whether I am cut out to sustain internet businesses powered by the income-generating engine that is affiliate marketing? Wealthy Affiliates certainly seems to have the supportive community, tools and training to make that a possibility - even, with application, a probability.

I owe it to my mother’s memory to try my best, and hope I have inherited her qualities. We shall see. I’ll give it my best shot - it won’t be for the want of trying.