Blows My Mind
If we shall be found guilty of anything on the Day of Judgement, it will not be because we believed too much but that we believed too little about all the things God intended for us to experience in this lifetime and eternity. St. Paul, quoting his predecessor the Prophet Isaiah, wrote “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:8)
June was a tall redheaded senior of Irish decent and full of life. She abounded in optimism and faith even though her body was ravaged by an abdominal cancer that caused her to take on …show more content…
He had been dating a nurse who was a single mom, and June was so excited about the future prospects for Todd and Heather and the new beginning that was shaping up before them and Heather’s children. Since June was in the last days of her life, the news of Todd’s death was not revealed to her to spare her from the anguish we knew it would bring to her heart. The time soon came for June to be moved to the hospital as her daily care became more than could be handled at home. The absence of her presence in her usual place in the front room brought a grief to our hearts, and we pushed back the thoughts of what it would be like to lose her. She began to sleep more and more, and it seemed as if she were going to slip away from us, and we really had not had the opportunity to share our love with her one more time. I arrived at the hospital one afternoon on a regular pastoral call to find Heather sitting with June holding her hand. Heather looked up at me, and with tears in her eyes she said, ”I think June has just left us.” We sat quietly absorbing the reality of the moment. There was no pulse or breath. It seemed like several moments passed by, and then suddenly June’s eyes opened wide, she looked straight at us and said, “What are you doing here with Todd and me?” I gently replied, “I don’t know where you are, June, but Heather and I are right here in the hospital sitting beside you!” Then she said, “Tell tail” (signature words that assured us that she was not hallucinating). “It blows my mind!” She confirmed the details of our whereabouts and then told us the facts about Todd and her presence with him! It blew our minds that we were in a place together with June that we could not explain. It was a place known to God
If we shall be found guilty of anything on the Day of Judgement, it will not be because we believed too much but that we believed too little about all the things God intended for us to experience in this lifetime and eternity. St. Paul, quoting his predecessor the Prophet Isaiah, wrote “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:8)
June was a tall redheaded senior of Irish decent and full of life. She abounded in optimism and faith even though her body was ravaged by an abdominal cancer that caused her to take on …show more content…
He had been dating a nurse who was a single mom, and June was so excited about the future prospects for Todd and Heather and the new beginning that was shaping up before them and Heather’s children. Since June was in the last days of her life, the news of Todd’s death was not revealed to her to spare her from the anguish we knew it would bring to her heart. The time soon came for June to be moved to the hospital as her daily care became more than could be handled at home. The absence of her presence in her usual place in the front room brought a grief to our hearts, and we pushed back the thoughts of what it would be like to lose her. She began to sleep more and more, and it seemed as if she were going to slip away from us, and we really had not had the opportunity to share our love with her one more time. I arrived at the hospital one afternoon on a regular pastoral call to find Heather sitting with June holding her hand. Heather looked up at me, and with tears in her eyes she said, ”I think June has just left us.” We sat quietly absorbing the reality of the moment. There was no pulse or breath. It seemed like several moments passed by, and then suddenly June’s eyes opened wide, she looked straight at us and said, “What are you doing here with Todd and me?” I gently replied, “I don’t know where you are, June, but Heather and I are right here in the hospital sitting beside you!” Then she said, “Tell tail” (signature words that assured us that she was not hallucinating). “It blows my mind!” She confirmed the details of our whereabouts and then told us the facts about Todd and her presence with him! It blew our minds that we were in a place together with June that we could not explain. It was a place known to God