In a service, saying goodbye to the mother she adores, she found her gaze turned upward, through the skylight to heaven’s door.
One lone cloud passed o’er her sight line when “In The Garden” was the song.
It seemed an apt description where her mother now belongs.
The cloud and shadow of that death disappeared with the sun, summoning
joy inside her soul of the victory Christ had won.
Her mother passed beyond this world to God’s garden paradise,
and Debbie was able to see this cloud pass beyond her tearful eyes.
Written for Debbie, Maida’s daughter