A rainbow in the sky (part I)

 

I have a few thoughts I wanted to write down, and I could not think of a title for what I had to say.  Tonight, I was sitting on my front porch and noticed the sun setting on the trees.  The sun seemed to be setting in a different place, so I got up to check it out.  I walked out of my driveway and looked in the sky all around my house.  How fitting that I saw a beautiful, tall, rainbow in the sky with a partial, double rainbow next to it.  I went inside to tell Lauren and Ashton.  Lauren wanted me to get the video camera, so I did.  As I gazed in the sky, I said, “God keeps His promises.”  He has kept His promises from the very beginning of time, and in His word He said He would never leave us nor forsake us.  He was with Mom and my family every step of the way.

Grandma Freddie passed away a few weeks ago, and we went to her funeral.  It was a graveside funeral.  During the funeral, I heard wind chimes from another gravesite.  The chimes reminded me of Mom.  After the service, Dad came up to me and started to speak but couldn’t because he was choked up.  He said something about the chimes and Mom.  He said, “Your mom was here.”  I told him I was thinking the same thing.

After the service, a lady came up to me and said, “You look exactly like your mother.”  “You are so beautiful.”  She said my hair was like Mom’s too.  I was taken back by her comments and had to gather myself before I said, “Thank you.”  She told me she was a high school friend of Moms. 

After the funeral, Lauren, Ashton, and I went back to St. Simons to visit Dad for a week.  I helped Dad clean out a lot of things he needed to get rid of such as clothes, ties, and shoes that were out of style.  Mom kept a closet full of baby toys and toys for the grandkids.  She spoiled them to death!!  I got rid of a lot of the toys and made room for Dad’s things because that closet would be his.  Claudia would put her stuff in the other closet.

I reflected for a while when I was in the room where Mom died.  The phases replayed, the motions and emotions revisited.  I lay down in the position Mom was laying when she died and thought about the gates of Heaven opening up, and the angels escorting Mom to Heaven.  What a thought!  Ashton and I both took turns sleeping with Mom’s stuffed bunny.

As we were cleaning out stuff around the house, we came across an angel bear.  Ashton said he had given the bear to Granny.  Jennifer told Ashton since he had given the bear to her, he should keep it.  He was thrilled.  He told me, “Sleeping with the bear reminds me of sleeping with Granny.”  Mom would usually lay down with them at night, and she would usually fall asleep.