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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