Friday, November 21, 2014

Today, they tell me it is my favorite bridge's 50th birthday!

I am so blessed to have been emotionally and spiritually groomed for life under the shadow of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. Many an emotional joy and struggle was exulted or mourned with the sight of that beautiful gift of engineering in view. We played and we learned and we loved and we grew under the shadow of that great structure. Like a nana, I felt its comfort tell me I was home after a long morning journey through the canals of the underground caves that were the subway commutes.

My favorite memory was when the bridge would be partially covered in the fog and you could really imagine that, Heaven had come down for the morning and that you could reach it if you walked to the other side of the bridge. I certainly know that Brooklyn isn't Heaven and certainly Staten Island isn't Heaven, but God has made a way for us to traverse an even more impossible chasm. Halleluia, before I even knew that my estate was so dire the Bridge of His Grace had already been constructed. Thank you for being a stalwart reminder of Grace and Hope and Future, Mr. Bridge!

Monday, November 3, 2014

These are the good old days!

I did love the enchantment of Mrs. Tassie's face when she said "she's in heaven!" about her mother. There was a beauty of confidence and love of God and her mother that marked her obvious grief.

We traveled through the sad providence with that family in our prayers for them. What a beautiful and sweet Christian family. I saw them in the nursery and then later in the "kid's central" etc. As we dropped Ezra and they dropped their girls here and there. Now, we grieve with them in spirit. I am hoping that their grief is teaching us to number our days and to know that our grief of a similar kind, may it grow our faith and teach us to love God and eachother more. May we carry their hearts in ours through their grief and may they instruct us how to be confident of the condition of our loved ones hearts at their departure from us. what a delightful confidence to know "She is in heaven!" We can't know about the days to come, as Carly sings, but we can follow others who have been where we are going. Hopefully we will stay together and love oneanother into heaven.