Service is a legacy

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/obituaries/news/s_711645.html


This is a little different.  The above link is to my own mothers obituary.  In my loss and going thru many of her things-scrap books, articles, family memories and highlighted by her obituary I see where the strength of drive for service comes from in our company. 
I watch thru the years as my mother worked so diligently with those who were, by the worlds standards, Handicapped.  With her dedication to the Special Olympics, an annual fishing trip for her students, taking 3 years to teach one of her students to ride a tri-cycle, coming home exhausted from taking these students out of their wheel chairs and jumping all day on a trampoline while holding these precious kids in her arms.  They were special to her just like us, her own children were.   This level of commitment and service is rarely found in people in today's world.  This day and age it is about ME!  or as a former employer put it WIFM-What's in it for ME! with most people I meet.
With her passing I have begun to reexamine my own life. My accomplishments, My misdeeds, My life as a whole to see if I even was truly what I wanted to be. 
You know what I have found-everything I am proud of and that means the most to me are the qualities I have been seeing in my MOTHER during all this time of reflection.  I will rise in the middle of the night for a friend in need, I will miss an event that I really want to go to if a client has no heat or needs a part, I have been teaching Sunday school and driving the van to pick up people who have no means of attending church for a long time now-it adds another 8 hour work day for me on Sunday's.  It does not matter though.  It makes me happy, It makes others happy-It is service before self like my mother lived.  
I wish you all could have met this wonderful mother, servant, friend, teacher, life coach......she was special to me and I hope to continue to be a testament to that legacy.
I want this testament to continue to be a part of what my company is.  I want it to rub off on all around me-those I meet, those I have known for years and those I pass on the street. 
It would be my wish, and I know my mothers as well, that everyone who reads this would go and call their parents, tell them how much they mean to you, get to them as fast as you can and as often as you can to hug them and share their company, never pass up an opportunity to see them, set a time each day as my mother and I had to call them just to say hello-or from a dear friend and his fiance shared with me(which is what I did for mom)-WAkey, WAkey, Eggs and Bakey.
May you always rise to meet the day with a smile, Love and prayer on your heart, and leave this world a better place than when you found it.
God Bless you all!