I had such a cool father's day. I woke up this morning to the smell of Spam, Scrambled eggs and Rice. I honestly thought that i was dreaming, but i wasn't, because there stood in the kitchen my lovely wife. She made me an awesome breakfast. After that we went to church and had a great time there too. But i think that my favorite part of the day was at Greenwood Mortuary where my father is laid to rest. I've been going there every Father's Day for the last 10 years now and i've always been impacted by the many people who go to pay some sort of homage to their loved ones. Some people even go to the extent of having picnics there, it's a pretty cool site.
This time was extra special to me. After about an hour or so sitting at the foot of my father's stone, I was just about getting ready to leave when i noticed that there was an Elderly woman sitting on a bench nearby and she was whispering things to herself. I felt this prompting to ask her about her story, so i did.
For the next 20 minutes I found out that her name was Jean and that the bench that she was sitting on was her and her husband's stone. I found out that the whispering was to her love of 61 years who passed away this past January. She has 4 sons, One however died and is laid to rest very close to their bench. We exchanged stories about what we remembered about our love ones and talked about how much we missed them.
I sat at the foot of that bench and was so honored to have met a new friend. She told me about how blessed she was to have such a great husband and that he lived a great life. She also told me that her name one day would be etched on the other side of their bench.
I may never see Jean again in this lifetime, but what I learned 2 valuable take aways from our conversation.
* I learned that no matter how tough things get in life it can be worked out, they made it work for 61 years.
* She also reminded me that life is to be lived out and embraced and that i should count my blessings every day.
All this i know already, but the reminder was great and refreshing and something that i needed.
2 comments:
Dude, this is an amazing story.
I wonder what our dads our doing right now?
Pretty cool to think no matter how much we miss them we could never celebrate them or give them a Fathers Day as good as what their experiencing.
Thanks for sharing. Inspriring to know how intentional you are about giving your dad that time.
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