PrintJournal 26
28 July, 2015
Happy 51st Wedding Anniversary, My Love!!
Well, for us it was a wedding anniversary with a difference. Instead of us sitting in a restaurant for the 51st time, I was sitting alongside your memorial out near Bathurst. You remember what the winter wind is like up on the Central Tablelands? Well, it was like that yesterday! Mind you, the sun was shining and the sky was virtually cloudless. But the wind seemed determined to get inside my jacket!
Of course, being our wedding anniversary, it was mandatory that reference be made to the fact that I fainted as the service began!! I was surprised that I & C had never heard the account of my show-steeling endeavour”. Oh well, I guess it’s a small price to pay if people are going to find it amusing.
It was again good to reflect on the Lord’s provision during the last week leading up to our wedding. To provide me with a job, a house for us and the money that was needed for me to cover my part of the wedding expenses. And so it has continued for more than 50 years!
So, I sat alongside your memorial and reflected upon those many years together. Sometimes those thoughts became words and should someone pass by, they would have thought that I was either speaking to someone invisible or had taken leave of my grasp on reality.
Before I tell you why I don’t think I’m crazy, I should mention that I received a photo of you yesterday that is just so beautiful. It was taken by your Ladies’ Group quite some months ago now. I’ve never carried photos in my wallet in all the time we’ve been married.
I do now!
It perfectly captures your outward beauty (those eyes!) and your face expresses your inner beauty. I was showing it around at Church this morning and the results are in – 100% in favour of the above description!! What a great anniversary gift for me, at least.
Actually, it was the photo that gave me an insight as to why there is value in such things as memorials. Yes, I was speaking out loud as if you were there even though I knew that was not the case. But the memorial heightened my sense of the reality of your death. It proved to be a tangible reminder of an intangible reality.
The impact of the photo is much the same. You are no more present in that memorial than you are in the photo; both of which are tangible connections to my memory of you.
I took a lot of photos of the memorial and the surrounds.
It strikes me that our Communion Service has a similar purpose. Jesus said to do that “in remembrance of Me”. It is a means of keeping the memory of Jesus alive….lest we forget.
There is a meeting of Retired Ministers tomorrow so I had best wind up and write again soon.
So, until then…
You remain the love of my life
Mike
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