Writing to remember and reconcile: Colorado Springs Rescue Mission marks Mother’s Day with purpose
By Debbie Kelley | Denver Gazette
Unspoken words flowed from head to heart to paper Thursday, with messages that are being sent from Colorado Springs to communities across the nation, or from earth to heaven.
As Mother’s Day approaches, homeless people staying at the city’s largest emergency shelter and support campus wrote greeting cards with personal sentiments expressing thanksgiving, fond memories, forgiveness, regret, repentance and above all, their love to the women who gave them life.
“I most want to tell her that we miss her so much,” said Sherry Kirkendall, who for the second year will observe Mother’s Day without her mom, who also was homeless at the time of her death in February 2024.
“We were close,” she said, tearfully. “It’s been kind of tough. She was a rock, a f...