During the coronavirus pandemic many suffered the loss of loved ones On November our family joined their ranks when Bee Crowder my ninety-five-year-old mom died mdash though not from COVID- Like so many other families we weren rsquo t able to gather to grieve Mom honor her life or encourage one another Instead we used other means to celebrate her loving influence mdash and we found great comfort from her insistence that if God called her home she was ready and even eager to go That confident hope evidenced in so much of Mom rsquo s living was also how [... more]