My Mother in the New Fade, Part 8

as far as faith goes
my mother always had
an abundance

it's everyone else
who seemed to lack it

at church in our new home
of Lisbon Falls
she quickly discovered
that the motivation
most people had to
participate
had less to do with piety
and more to do with status

so they were always jockeying
and not minding
when they elbowed other people

and this was a pattern that
continued
for many years

she helped her children
enter into this kind of service
but i'm not sure any of us
were equal to her example

her daily prayers led
to the family rosary
and long after that ended
she continued to pray

her faith would serve her well
through unexpected trials