Divine Imagery
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(Imagery reflections as I experienced the departure of my beloved wife)
I’m feeling a little drowsy, yet I see the train station through my window. A magnificent train, powered by a gigantic steam locomotive, has just arrived in all its glory---it must be the 'Express' bound for the same destination that my sweetheart and I headed to on the 'Local' that makes many more stops along the way to the place called “HEALING”. Memories come flooding forth of times when my father took me on train rides and at train stops much like the one I am now observing. We would deboard and go for walks to stretch our legs or buy a goodie. One time we wandered too far and the train was preparing to leave without us. Luckily, we were at the front of the train and my dad was able to catch the eye of the train engineer and we were able to reboard. I turn from the window to tell her about my remembrances --- but she isn’t there. With a powerful burst of energy, steam and smoke the 'Express' charges forward and I can see those passengers moving away --- and now I see her with them!!! Somehow I know she is desperate to reach our destination quickly because of her pain, but also that she would be waiting for me there when the 'Local' arrives. I just thought we had more time, but she had been hiding her failing health too well. I also suspect that boarding the 'Express' is by invitation only. {Psalm 90:10/ "The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away."}
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Welcome to my blog where I am privileged to share some thoughts with you from time to time. These thoughts are somewhat like paint-by-number pictures---only I may have already partially provided my own ‘coloring’. Not to worry. Feel free to provide your own colors. After all, the picture/thoughts are free for the taking and not copyright protected. Still, please handle them gently. Though they merely cost you time and energy, they cost me a lifetime’s worth of experiences and insights. For indeed, this blog flows out of God’s destiny within me.
So use your imagination to color as you will---blue, green, interesting, boring, lonely, ignored, rejected, glorious, victorious, and all points in between. However, do be gentle and cautious. These delicacies, once tasted, might render you ‘never the same’. One other caution: For those whom you deem to color ‘rejected/discarded’, please leave them in a place where you may later reevaluate their color with additional merciful light from your soul. Together we shall be like Kingly discoverers (Prov 25:2). May my keyboard be as a prepared writer (Ps.45:1b, Prov 25:11). And when we find ‘honey’, let’s not eat too fast or too much (Prov.25:16). My first thought/ picture for next time will be about "boats". As yet there is only one other. I can scarcely wait to see what will be written (Ps.45:1a). |
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