It is a sunny, spring day…
Memorial Day weekend
A wonderful day to be out and about on the Harley
Utica is having its annual ice cream festival, time to check it out
The traffic is busy, better be careful, too many people don’t look
She didn’t
She was in a hurry
She didn’t want to wait in traffic
So she did it
In a moment
In the blink of an eye
She whipped her little car around, making a u-turn
And there we were
Too late for everything but what was going to happen
Thrown from the motorcycle
Wife, sister, daughter, mother, granddaughter….
Hit the pavement
And in one, swift, awful moment she is no longer breathing
Her lifeless body lies on the pavement
Every dream, every hope, every opportunity of tomorrow now gone
We turned to God and asked why
We prayed for strength
The heavens were silent and they remain so even to this day
In a moment of anguished religious passion someone cried, if one soul gets saved through this it is worth it all
Not it is not
How dare we reduce the worth of a life, this one life, to that which God can use for his means
No, No, No
Let them all go to hell
For one more day, one more time where the joy and laughter of family can be heard
For one more day of all the complexities family brings
One more day.
(In honor of my sister-in-law Kathy Hughes who died six years ago)
Hey Bruce. I saw the title of your post….so I decided to start reading it. I should have known. Now, you’re not “playing fair.” Don’t try an lure people into reading one of your posts just to “preach to them”…..that’s not fair is it? You say you don’t like it but then you go and do it yourself….lol. I stopped right when I knew you set the hook on me so your “method” didn’t work.
Take care Bruce.
I am just one man with a story to tell. Not trying to hook anyone. I am quite indifferent to such matters. If my writing helps someone, fine. If not, that’s fine too.
Like a good Baptist you read til you didn’t like what you read and then put it aside. Can’t have beliefs and practices challenged…
Why didn’t you know gregg? Shouldn’t the Holy Spirit have informed you prioer to reading here? Did you pray first? What are you doing here if you think Bruce is out to “lure” you? I found Bruce’s post here touching and your comment insulting. But not to worry. I’m probably not being fair right?
Thank you. If Gregg read all of it (and maybe he really did) he would have seen how personal and painful this was. It had nothing to do with trying to hook someone or trying to get them to see things my way.