Almost seven months?

Just about seven months have gone by since Mom went to be with Jesus. I wonder what she's seen, learned, done. In these past months that I havent written, much has gone on in the Howard household.
For me, PROM!!! It was a great night... tears in the morning as mom's headstone was also put up that weekend, but I was comforted by the fact that when people are driving by, they'll never miss it. My mom will be on people's minds. They wont forget her.
I also saw five of my close friends graduate (through my tears that is). This will be me graduating next year, and I will be hysterically crying as my mom would be if she was here.
I still dont understand why God took my mother home when all four of us kids still have graduations and weddings and possibly kids in our futures that we must go through with out her. Why must we go through that grief on days that are supposed to be happy? I know that God takes people out of our lives to teach us lessons and to bring someone else into our lives so that we might tell them about Him. My mom's story has touched people. I have a friend who had fallen away from Him--her whole family had, but by seeing my strength and my family's perseverence, my friend came back to Christ, and I have recently been seeing her going to my church. God works in marvelous ways, dont you think? Next time you start to question, look around at the others and ask where their faith is.

"Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like ME. I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see!"