26 Expressions of
Love and Kindness Plus 1
#12—The Power of a
Cookie
Traditionally,
when someone passed away, neighbors, friends, church family members, and
extended family members would provide meals for the family as an expression of
love and kindness. To a certain extent
that is still done today, but I do not think it is as common as it used to
be. Yet, families are touched and souls
are nourished by condolences expressed through food.
I had
intended to carry on this tradition with a recent loss of a family friend, but
I was not sure where to take a meal. The
family was often absent from the house of the deceased to take care of related
legal matters. Therefore, I opted to
provide cookies to the family. Some of
the cookies were the soft, delicious kind from the bakery section of a grocery
store, and others were homemade.
The
homemade cookies came from a recipe we had received from the man we now miss. I do not know if it is a cookie he had shared
with his family or not. I hoped it
was. I thought it might both trigger
fond memories of his good cooking and exhibit some of the influence he had had on
our family. I know nothing I did to
touch this family wiped away their pain, but I hope the cookies had the power to
say, "Your loved one was special to us, and we miss him, too."
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