Aline: A Tribute

For Gary and Keith:

Your mother was a wonderful woman,

full of laughter and joy,

of home-made goodness and truth,

of simple wisdom and justice;

a woman not of over-reaching lofty goals,

but of pouring out abundance on the earth.

Like the Word of God leaping down from heaven,

watering the earth and giving fruitfulness to all it touched,

her spirit overflowed and watered all who knew her.

Like the virtuous woman of Proverbs,

her arms were strong for her tasks;

her house warm and well-ordered;

her children satisfied and her husband content.

"Let her children stand at the gate and praise her:

Many are the women of proven worth,

but your excellence is above them all."