Imagine dedicating more than sixty years of your life to family. Raising eight children over forty years, and tending to the house long after they are gone. Cooking and cleaning every day, and never complaining. Sending christmas presents and birthday presents to all of your grandkids every year, and never forgetting. Being genuinely interested in how everyone is doing; knowing that everyone is okay. How much is all of that worth? But this list doesn’t do you any real justice because there’s so much more.

I really hope you are going to be okay. But if you’re not, we know that you have had a good, long life. And you are a good person with an unassailably good heart, and nothing can change that, ever. You have proven that much.

Your life has certainly not been for nothing. I would never be able to describe how much more you are worth.