We had a red, pink and blue day yesterday. We didn't officially celebrate Valentine's Day but we did have a special dinner with special place settings and gift bags on each plate. And candles lite all over the downstairs. We did that because I love the three people that came for dinner that night.
Dinner had to be delayed, an emergency surgical procedure. The steaks were put in a bit before 8:00pm, Elizabeth had made her garlic red potatoes, also our favorite broccoli casserole and squash were on the table. Our favorite chocolate cake with yummy chocolate icing was the dessert treat. The girls received lavender shirts from Banana, Elizabeth tells me lavender is in this spring, Dad got a jazz CD and jordon almonds and Mom got white leather Coach gloves from her favorite girl. We had a great dinner and great fellowship.
And yet, we are missing one. Another holiday, another occassion, another event and he is not present with Elizabeth who loved him. We know, and our faith tells us, and we believe that we will all be together again, reunited soon, someday. But she misses him in the here and now. And that hurts and bewilders those intimately involved. But sometimes we say nothing because that hurts less, sometimes.
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Your picture and reflections remind me of a dinner we went to at Fort Rucker the night before Christian graduated from flight school.
He had 2 important parts to play that night. First, he was asked to give the invocation and did that unapologetically in Jesus's name. Second, there was an empty table in the middle of the room, for the "missing men," and CP was one of four who very seriously placed a hat from one of the services at one of the places to reserve a place for those missing in action.
I remember being very impressed and sobered by the whole evening. Rightly so.
Phil
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