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I met two people just now as I was weeding and planting in the dawn light turning to sunrise. One recently stepped down from a very prominent position and said something I admire: “Sometimes it appropriate, even after a good show, to get off the stage”. I don’t remember his name. The other just ascended. His name I remember. I decided, in their company, that I need to follow their example.
This is my final posting. I’ve deeply appreciated the company of you who have read this blog over the past two very good years. Your companionship has helped my find meaning in my life entering retirement, which I now see as my present calling…and relocating to this new place that Kathy and I now really feel as home.
As I’ve read and written, I have observed that easy search engines give us all a ready access to very good writing. At times I’ve considered my writing good, but no better than (and often not nearly as good as) much that I have happened easily upon.
So this morning as I mused on God’s wisdom in trusting the presence of the Spirit to continue in secula seculorum the work that the Word Made Flesh began, I decided to follow the truth that I find happy within myself. I believe I’ve written enough words, read mostly by my old friends from Detroit.
Ha! I smile and wonder what Jesus does up there. I wonder whether He gets up early and pulls weeds and smiles at the flowers, still weighted with the night’s dew bending even more under the weight of the first bee. I wonder if He takes long walks, and thinks about those with whom he lived such a good life. I wonder if He wonders about them, but I am certain that He longs.
I am certain, however, that He trusts His Spirit, trusts completely in Her life within all of those about whom He wonders, and who he loves with a love, even at a distance in space and time, undiminished.
If any of you who have read this blog and would, in fact, like some of my particular words from time to time, feel free to e-mail me and I’ll make a list for the future.
But you know that I’m here regardless, and find you as unforgettable as God.
