Love, Hope and Grief with Kim's eulogy for her mom "Lovely Lin"
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Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Kim writes about her mom who a childhood friend named “Lovely Lin”. She says: If you knew her, you were fortunate—whether a brief encounter, a colleague, lifelong friend, or most especially, her beloved family. You were fortunate because she was a bright and warm light in this world. She was a “feeling” - warmth, love, kindness.
On this Mother’s day, we honor you Lovely Lin, you and all the amazing moms - wherever they may be.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Thanks for being here. Very short pod that comes out every Sunday morning as |
| 0:08.1 | Sundays are such a good time to let go of the day to day and touch base with what matters, |
| 0:12.9 | what will matter and what will have mattered. The answer to that question for me is often |
| 0:18.0 | found in ceremonies I could watch strangers get married once a week and I'm even more affected |
| 0:23.0 | by funerals. Sitting in a service, taking in the story of one life, just another ordinary |
| 0:29.6 | person who they loved and who loved them. In a way, eulogies are about the most succinct |
| 0:36.2 | source of clarity and direction I can think of. So I ask listeners who have lost someone dear |
| 0:42.5 | to share their words and every week I'll read one eulogy here so that we don't forget |
| 0:48.0 | there is a point to the pain. We have much to offer. We affect each other deeply and that ordinary |
| 0:55.4 | lives are really kind of exquisite when you look at them closely. This is thanks for being here. |
| 1:08.3 | This week's thanks for being here was sent in by a woman named Kim Lawrence and I wanted to read |
| 1:12.7 | the note she sent along with it. Hi Kelly, I lost my mom almost two weeks ago. She had a devastating |
| 1:19.5 | battle with stage 4 lung cancer. It metastasized to her brain. She fainted one day and a month later |
| 1:26.9 | she couldn't walk. A brain tumor completely debilitated her. She was my wonderful, strong, |
| 1:33.1 | kind, nurturing mom throughout even as her illness ravaged her body. Her spirit remained bright. |
| 1:39.7 | Once my mom entered hospice, I started to think about what I would say about her, how I would |
| 1:44.4 | describe her, how I could ever do her justice. On one of my daily walks, I tuned into your podcast |
| 1:50.3 | and it was the episode when you shared your beautiful eulogy for Liz. I'd listened to it four or |
| 1:56.0 | five times crying as I walked and then I had my husband listen to it. It captured your dear |
| 2:01.2 | friends so well that I felt like I sort of knew her and it helped me frame how to think about my |
| 2:06.2 | mom's vibrant and beautiful life and her last heartbreaking days that I was currently experiencing |
| 2:11.7 | with her. The diocese where my parents lived discourages eulogies during a funeral mass we had |
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