"I'll think of you all as I fall asleep. I'm going to try to space travel to keep myself busy during the surgery. Don't be surprised if you hear me whisper in your ear!"
My heart and eyes completely fill as I read this. I explode with emotions of every kind! Instantly, I am completely ALIVE! Just as instantly, my heart flies to a Chicago hospital where she's waiting as she writes last messages to her team and the people who love her.I need a moment.
There is so much to do today. I didn't get it all done yesterday. I've got to catch up! Now I'm preoccupied and have to get my focus back.
Standing, I face the ocean, feel the sun on my face, the sea breeze kisses my skin and purple clouds dance in a deep blue sky. I send Erin prayer, good Karma and love.
Sitting back down, I open the first email which is a daily musing from my favorite author Frederick Buechner and read ...
"IN THE YEAR 1831, it seems, this church was repaired and several new additions were made. One of them was a new steeple with a bell in it, and once it was set in place and painted, apparently, an extraordinary event took place. "When the steeple was added," Howard Mudgett writes in his history, "one agile Lyman Woodard stood on his head in the belfry with his feet toward Heaven."
It makes me laugh.
A steeple is put on a church and Lyman Woodard, whoever that is, climbs on top and stands on his head.
What a crazy, wonderful, idiotic way to celebrate life!
But then Buechner gets to the heart of the matter, which he does better than anybody, and why he's my favorite. He writes ...
"If the Lord is indeed our shepherd, then everything goes topsy-turvy. Losing becomes finding and crying becomes laughing. The last become first and the weak become strong. Instead of life being done in by death in the end as we always supposed, death is done in finally by life in the end. If the Lord is our host at the great feast, then the sky is the limit (The Clowns in the Belfry)."
I burst into tears again and my heart is absolutely full.
Who can work?
Powerful things are taking place.
God is on the move.
I've got to get ready!
I don't want to miss it!
As I feel a tickle in my ear.
