{"id":426,"date":"2007-11-23T06:05:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2007-11-25T06:44:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T10:44:14","slug":"isnt-she-lovely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Isn’t She Lovely?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stevie Wonder sings \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t She Lovely<\/em><\/strong>?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a song about a baby, but most of us would think of it as a song about a lovely woman. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When is the last time you truly saw a lovely woman?<\/span><\/p>\n

Over these past few weeks our family has been dealing with an illness with one of our dearest family members…our mother.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When you love your mother like we do and she becomes ill, life stands still. \u00c2\u00a0At 84, my mother has lived a full life. \u00c2\u00a0She has survived a war where she lived from day to day wondering if a bomb would drop on her house. She has birthed five children, three who lived. She has had a\u00c2\u00a0good life with the husband of her choice and has adjusted to his early death. She is, today, a good friend to many…both young and old. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When she got pneumonia, had a heart that went into uncontrolled rhythms, and started having blood sugar levels that were bottoming out and rising just as quickly it threw us all in survival mode. \u00c2\u00a0The day before Thanksgiving she went to a rehab center.<\/span><\/p>\n

She told me just the other day that her goal is to get out of there as quickly as possible. \u00c2\u00a0Her condition improves daily and, you know, I think she just may be out shortly after regaining her strength.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While all this treatment has been going on she has had to put aside her vanity for recovery’s sake. My\u00c2\u00a0genteel\u00c2\u00a0mother has done that with grace and dignity.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She said to several of us that she was a mess when she looked in the mirror. \u00c2\u00a0We all think she is lovely, and we help her brush that hair as well as possible until she can get a professional to fix it. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth be known, we are in awe of her and the daily efforts. The efforts she is making to strengthen her weakened body inspires us. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you pay special attention to elderly beauty. \u00c2\u00a0It is truly a sight to behold.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0~ Joellen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stevie Wonder sings \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t She Lovely?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a song about a baby, but most of us would think of it as a song about a lovely woman. \u00c2\u00a0 When is the last time you truly saw a lovely woman? Over these past few weeks our family has been dealing with an illness with one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,16,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-parents","category-life-events","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}