This
is a continuation of a series of Lenten thoughts appropriate to the
remembering our Christ with all the awe He truly deserves.. Please
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I share with you now the words of a husband relating what happened to
him when he walked out into their garden in the early morning after his
much loved wife had died. It seemed as if time were suspended for just a
little while, and a touch of eternal heavens peeked through.
“Margaret had so loved the out-of-doors, along with music and birds,” he
said. “How can I try to describe to you my experience of that dawn? All
I can say is that she was there.
And I, at a little distance, was there observing it all.
I had been a naval officer during the war and I found myself thinking of
an Admiral being piped aboard a ship. It was as if the boundaries
between earth and heaven were obliterated and Margaret was being piped
aboard. She was entering her heavenly home in a blaze of glory with the
birds singing that morning as I have never heard them sing before, or
since. It was as if ten thousand angels were crying, “Joy! Joy! Here
comes Margaret. Everybody out. Everybody out. Here comes Margaret!
“Strangely, my dominant emotion was not grief, but a thankfulness that I
had had her for 19 years and a fierce uncontrollable pride in having
been her husband. Only one word can describe my mood at the time –
exultation.” (from the book by Catherine Marshall, “To Live Again”)
And then there are the two ministerial friends of mine, who stepped
briefly into the valley of the shadow of death and told me how it was
looking down on their earthly bodies and feeling strangely detached from
them. And how good they felt. How contented. How fulfilled. This is not
something I just read about in a book. These two men looked me in the
eye and simply said, “Neil, this is how it was.”
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