May I Introduce You to........Yourself? posted 6/24/2009 2:52:35 PM | 9 kudos what's this?     report abuse

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Watching the news this morning.
Iran....North Korea......terrorists....Nuclear Weapons....Mass Strarvation....Health Care....Budget Deficits... so many problems to worry about.

And yet...they just bounced off of my mind. They never sunk in today. They seemed far away and so distant. Like they were a TV show that wasn't real. Like they were tiny forgettable problems. I was in another world all together.

I was entombed in a place in my mind, where the dark things that are not understood roam freely. I was in a place I do not wish to stay in. And I will find my way out. For me, getting out will be fairly easy. For others...I fear it won't be so easy.



A young couple start dating.
An unlikely pairing, as she is more than a foot taller than him.
They have been dating, and partying, and generally enjoying each others company for a few months.
They are always together. A rather odd looking couple in a way.

She is beautiful..tall and slender with long black hair....he is short.
Both are as sweet as apple pie.

They are friends of mine, and they come to dance and hear us play every weekend. So does her Mom and her boyfriend. We are all good friends.

Then one day she finds out she is going to have a baby.
And we all watch to see the reaction....will they keep going? Or will this put too much pressure on the relationship?

To our collective relief, they decide they are in love...and they get married. And I play the wedding.....all their friends and family are there....she is showing...and glowing........he is beaming with a sunshine happiness. After all...he is going to be a proud Daddy soon....a baby boy is on the way! His first son! He looks at his new wife with adoring eyes. He is grateful from his inner soul, for her love. He stands tall.

Mother's Day arrives, and so does the baby. All is well. Mother and child cruise through the birth with no worries. So does Daddy.

A real Mother's Day gift alright! What more could she ask for?

A few weeks go by, and the baby is happy, always smiling and inquisitive. Growing like a little weed.

Daddy is walking on cloud 9. And Father's Day is almost here. His very first one. And they will share it together...all 3 of them. And he will be King, for really the first time in his life.

The child wakes up at around 4:30 am with a small cry, and she hops out of bed and gathers him up in her arms. She feeds him, and they cuddle in the faint light of the coming dawn...Father's Day she thinks. She has plans. And she crawls back into bed with her infant, and a grin....knowing that the day will be special for her husband. She will see to it.......

They both drift off to sleep.

An hour or so later, she wakes and feels him next to her. She slips her pinky finger into the baby's tiny hand, knowing he will react with a barely perceptible squeeze.

Nothing.

She sits up.......and comes to realize.....he has departed.




Born on Mother's Day.
Died on Father's Day.

My God.......My God.
My mind is screaming!

How does one survive such a thing?
How does one go on?
How could I even inhale again if that were to have happened when I was a young man?



So sad.....so very sad.
The services are tomorrow.
I will not be playing.
But I will be strong and exercise my faith. I will use it....believe in it...be the example.

And the only clue of just how weak my faith is will be the hot tears running ....streaming down my face. I will not be able to turn those off. And I will have no advice to share with them. I will just hold them both very tightly. After all.... What words could possibly help? What do I know of such things?
I am not qualified. Thank God.

I pray they survive this tragedy. I pray they cling to each other and continue their journey. I pray they find their way.
I have no idea how they will do it.



Adversity introduces a man...... to himself.

Sometimes ... those introductions are oh so incomprehensibly difficult.



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