"The Rainbow Comes and Goes".....a new book...

Yes, I stumbled upon this book....by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt...as I opened the front cover I discovered they were son and mother - it was interesting to read how the book came about....more interesting the message on the back cover: "When we're young we all waste so much time being reserved or embarrassed with our parents, resenting them or wishing they and we were entirely different people. This changes when we become adults, but we don't often explore new ways of talking and conversing, and we put off discussing complex issues or raising difficult questions. We think we'll do it one day, in the future, but life gets in the way, and then it's too late. I didn't want there to be anything left unsaid between my mother and me, so on her ninety-first birthday I decided to start a new kind of conversation with her, a conversation about her life. It ended up changing our relationship, bringing us closer than either of us had ever thought possible."........I cried as I read the last line.....tears of sadness, tears of joy....mostly tears of Gratitude....you see, I totally understand at a very deep level all that is written on the books jacket.....I love how God works....I've been reflecting on the past year....a journey that began on January 15, 2015 when my Dad (or was it God), dialed the wrong number to share that my Mom was on the way to the hospital.....I know it was a God intervention.....and I know it changed my life....allowing me to step into my fullness.....and more importantly it allowed for a "different" conversation with my Mom....one that allowed each of us to fully express who we are.....what we believed....and to LIVE the fullness of God's Grace......some day, I'll read the book I just bought (The Rainbow Comes and Goes) ..... today, I still "raw" from the human lost of my parents....the good news "no regrets".....Blessing all this beautiful Soul Day....