On a table, sat a very large, oblong book. Becky was stunningly beautiful. Young and confident. She looked the same as I'd always known her to look, with one exception. I've never seen health look so beautiful…words truly fail in this description.
She opened the book and began to speak of her life on earth. I knew she was talking, but I don't know what she was saying. I was mesmerized with her beauty. Somewhere in the course of her speaking, she began singing. I couldn't believe how harmonious the sound was. Such a beautiful voice…smooth and without error. She was perfect in every aspect. Then, somewhere behind me, I heard an old friend of mine, Jani Anderson, singing. Becky had stopped…Jani had begun. Again…beautifully smooth and melodious notes. So enticing.
It seemed only a short while and Becky was asking for us to pray. My attention was on her words suddenly. Silently I waited, with head bowed, hoping she would not ask me to pray aloud. Beings I was sitting alone, and on the front seat, with rapt attention, I was fearful I might be her target.
"Mary, what would you like to say?" Words came from her that totally put me at ease as I looked deep inside my heart. "Oh God. We understand we're not meant to live here forever. We long for the time we can be with You for all of eternity, where there is no suffering, no tears…" As I was praying, the enormous crowd (that I could not see, yet knew was there), starting singing the words I was praying. It seemed I knew the song…yet now, as I try remembering details of this dream, I cannot bring them to mind. Oddly, tears are easing their way out of my eyes while my mind takes me back to that moment of awakening on this God given opportunity of a day.
Why I felt to post of this event, I'm not sure. I do know that it is so very important to begin to see things as they really are. To see people as God's handiwork. To not take for granted the beauty in this world we are a part of for such a short period of time. To cherish the moments, the days, weeks, months, years that we've been given to fulfill the promises of God. To let go of silly disagreements and everything that would cause a disruption in the peaceful atmosphere of a home. We're made of better stuff than the mundane. We must realize we were created as spirit beings, housed in a mixture of earth, water, air, and a bit of "fire". Breathed into life by the Spirit of God. From Him we came, and one day will return back to Him.
Until the day of me joining in with the singing of that great cloud of witnesses, here you'll find me…in Mary's World.
