As I walk along this beautiful fall day full of life, beauty, the sounds of God’s creation….Sheep bells, horses gently neighing to each other, the soft breeze in the dried leaves that fall softly and happily to the ground…the birds singing…my ducks and Bruce the Goose ….I think farm life… is the best! But I also feel and see my Grandma sitting in her swing stringing the last of the green beans from the garden…and Grandpa putting wood on the porch getting ready for the cold that is to come…
That wonderful wood heat, and the lovely smell of smoke from the chimney, drifting lightly on the soft breeze, from the stove on the back closed in porch that heats the farm house my Daddy was born in. As were 2 of his 3 brothers…of a wrap round porch you had to be careful where you stepped! Of a wonderful high rock step at the back door to the kitchen…of dogs running round barking, and chickens all-round, the occasional farm cat …that knew how to be careful and stay high to be safe…I smile as in my mind I find myself there…I always knew a day would come when this would be a memory . I never counted on the Ghosts…
The kind that bring tears to my eyes for not having Grandma and Grandpa, Daddy, Momma, Uncles and Aunts, Great Aunts and Great Uncles here….As I approach this Thanksgiving…I am so thankful for all who have gone on and were in my heart and life…So few are here now…I am thankful for what remains of my Delk Family…There is so great a cloud of witnesses that surround us…according to the Bible…I believe my loved ones are a part of that cloud!
Hold your loved ones close and tell them you love them…forget the TV spend time with them. Time moves so fast for all of us…some of us have more than others…forget your differences and just enjoy each other!
Soon you will be holding your memories and missing your Ghosts as do I…
(Note: The written does not believe in ghosts…but the memories are so strong…it is as if her loved ones are here…if but for a fleeting moment.)
