I was in a wonder of the sticking power of God's Word.
Aunt Jackie's reading was Ecclesiastes 3...
The beauty of the next generation reading that beautiful passage and the beauty of the realness that Aunt Jackie fleshed that passage out to us. Isn't there a time for everything?, her life seemed to say.
The clouds came down and embraced us on the way to NY for that trip. A complete rainbow was over us as we entered Jersey. There she is, there is Aunt Jackie helping design the NY sky so that it can compete with the NC. We couldn't have a lesser sky design than any other state. She seemed to be right there. There was a cloud that looked like a chair that was dark on the under side and bright and rainbow colored on the top of it. That was the seat I chose to represent Aunt Jackie's chair around the table that Uncle shows me so regularly.
I didn't wail like I have at other times coming and going from the greatest city in the world and my hometown and Aunt Jackie being gone on ahead of us. All of this couldn' catch me, I thought if I wizzed in and wizzed out. My emotions are on the clock.
Getting a bag of bagels was a comfort. Standing on Union Tpke at the bus stop was a comfort. Why did I walk home so much? Why didn't I take the bus? Why are the bagels so delicious?
All these questions took my mind off my cry.
Days later I was at work and decided to carry my Bible Word Find Book. Providentially I was at Ecclesiastes 3 on my word find. Oh Dear God, do you want me to cry at missing Aunt Jackie at work? You can handle it, he said. I did. It was a study that I had never done before. 15 couplets of things to do between the 1st couplet and the 15th there were 14 other things to do before you get to thing number 30: a time to die. Have I done them all? I asked myself. Some are easy planting, reaping, embracing and refraining from embracing and some are very hard, like number 30 which is a perseverating contemplation of mine. It is March and I am Marching for Jesus and for the completion of my 30 things and honoring the memory of a wonderful example of doing the things in time. She changed my song for the storms and she changed all of our lives and God showed me many things through her life.
I will continue to meditate on Ecc. 3 for a long time because of the beauty of the granddaughter carrying her Great Grandma's legacy to the altar...
