07/13/2016
Twenty-Six years ago, after being blessed with 6 sons and 2 daughters, God sent me another son.
This son came in full of love and compassion for his new family. Although every one figured I had enough, he, and I knew that he was son number seven.. He wanted to call me mom, but he had to be different from the others. He said he should find another name for me.. After careful consideration, and a lot of questions, he came up with “ I'll call you God-Mommy”. That's who I have been to him every since. He had the utmost respect, and would never do anything that he thought I would not like. He enjoyed having dinners with us, and just as every child in the household had their Sunday choice of dinner, he had his also. When it was his turn to choose, dinner, instead of asking for what he wanted, he would pool the others to find out what they wanted also, and somewhere in between he came up with what he wanted for dinner. In his final days, he made that request to me again without any influence from the other boys.
He went to church with us, prayed and worshiped with us. My family was his all the way to granddad, the late Pastor Charles Edison, who received him with open arms as his grand-son.
We had wonderful times with Terrance, even at the Banks' family reunion in Cleveland, Ohio. He was well received by everyone he met in the family. We didn't have to talk everyday to know that we were loved, just a simple how are your every now and then was fine with him.
After being ill for so long, he never not once complained, nor did he want me to know just how sick he was. But after not being able to hide it any longer, his way of telling me was to call me over and thank me for being a mom to him all those years and showing him a different direction in life. His words to me was, "I can never thank you enough".
One fine morning, this life was over, and he flew away, to the arms of his creator, where he will forever be at peace, no more pain, no more worries. What mom wouldn't want that for her suffering child!
I thank you God, for giving me the years I had with such a loving, caring, and wonderful son, who taught me what unconditional love means, and now, on this 2nd day in July, I tearfully and humbly submit him back in your loving arms
I'll Always Love You
God-Mommy
