THE LIVING DEAD
Ok Lord... I give up! I can't take anymore... I'm done! How many more loved ones of mine, are you going to take away from me this month? A month or so ago, I wrote of some family friends relocating back to Indiana. The reason being, was because Renny had been in bad health. He wanted Sue to be close to her family (kids) in case anything ever happened to him.
It's funny how, God seems to get things backwards. Or did he? Maybe their recent move was, so that Renny could be around her kids when she passed. Maybe God knew what he was doing afterall. I often question his methods, and maybe I shouldn't.
However, that's what makes us human. We have tendency to question nearly everything. Again, they barely got their house unpacked. Honestly, they might not have completely, for all I know. They had only been back in Indiana about a month now. I just talked to her, last Saturday afternoon.
I wanted to tell her that, we lost our dog Maverick. She had known that, he was sick before she moved. When my Mom called me, about an hour or so ago; I couldn't believe it. I couldn't even cry at first. I got a recent picture of her out, and then the tears fell. It suddenly became real to me.
All I could think of was, "you left me!" Not only did you leave me once, but you left me twice. I mean that they moved away from us, then she had to go and die on me. About six weeks ago, before they moved, she brought me over some decorative plates. She knew that, I liked them. I got some plate hangers, and put them on the wall in a pattern right away. As she was leaving, after dropping those picutres by, she had something interesting to say. She said, 20 years from now, when I'm dead and gone, you can remember that old lady who gave you those plates. Then she laughed, after she said it.
No quite 20 years, more like eight weeks, or so. Although, If you have to die, I'd want to go the way she did. She laid down for a nap, and never woke back up. Sue was not only a family friend, but more of like an Aunt to me. I will never forget her, as long as I live. As long as I live..
Ok Lord... I give up! I can't take anymore... I'm done! How many more loved ones of mine, are you going to take away from me this month? A month or so ago, I wrote of some family friends relocating back to Indiana. The reason being, was because Renny had been in bad health. He wanted Sue to be close to her family (kids) in case anything ever happened to him.
It's funny how, God seems to get things backwards. Or did he? Maybe their recent move was, so that Renny could be around her kids when she passed. Maybe God knew what he was doing afterall. I often question his methods, and maybe I shouldn't.
However, that's what makes us human. We have tendency to question nearly everything. Again, they barely got their house unpacked. Honestly, they might not have completely, for all I know. They had only been back in Indiana about a month now. I just talked to her, last Saturday afternoon.
I wanted to tell her that, we lost our dog Maverick. She had known that, he was sick before she moved. When my Mom called me, about an hour or so ago; I couldn't believe it. I couldn't even cry at first. I got a recent picture of her out, and then the tears fell. It suddenly became real to me.
All I could think of was, "you left me!" Not only did you leave me once, but you left me twice. I mean that they moved away from us, then she had to go and die on me. About six weeks ago, before they moved, she brought me over some decorative plates. She knew that, I liked them. I got some plate hangers, and put them on the wall in a pattern right away. As she was leaving, after dropping those picutres by, she had something interesting to say. She said, 20 years from now, when I'm dead and gone, you can remember that old lady who gave you those plates. Then she laughed, after she said it.
No quite 20 years, more like eight weeks, or so. Although, If you have to die, I'd want to go the way she did. She laid down for a nap, and never woke back up. Sue was not only a family friend, but more of like an Aunt to me. I will never forget her, as long as I live. As long as I live..
posted by Beth Schofield | 7:19 AM
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