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You Must Keep Moving
“Grandma is gone,” my mother
said to me over the telephone.
Days later, as I was
preparing to leave town for the funeral, I could still hear my mother’s voice
in my ear. “Grandma is gone.”
I stopped packing my bags to
take a short break and stood by the patio door.
“I can’t believe I’m rushing around this apartment preparing to see my grandmother
for the last time,” I said to myself.
As
I turned away from the patio door, I inadvertently knocked over a stack of cd’s
that were decoratively placed in my living room. The cd’s fell over and broke apart the
1000-piece jigsaw puzzle I had been diligently working on to keep my mind
occupied from the stresses of life. “Darn
it!” I said out loud as I looked at
hours of work scattered across the bright white poster board.
As I stared at the detached
pieces, the Holy Spirit spoke to me, “Sometimes things are going to fall apart,
but you have to keep moving Tamika,” I sighed.
“Life goes on,” he finished. As I
turned and looked at my half-packed luggage, I knew that the Holy Spirit wasn’t
just talking about the puzzle, but about life in general. I came to realize that He wasn’t just talking
to me, He was speaking to you as well – yes, you. Things are going to fall apart, but you must
keep moving.
The day of the funeral, I
stood at the podium and looked out at the faces in the crowd. I was a bit saddened by the teary eyes; the
faces of those also saddened at the passing of an amazing woman. But I was encouraged because even in her
passing I knew that she would forever be a central piece in the puzzle of all
of our lives.
For every individual in the
room who had ever met her, they too had a piece of that puzzle. Whether she shared a kind word or even just a
smile, we all now shared a piece of the puzzle of Greeba Foster’s life. For those who knew her better, they would
never forget her laugh, her beautiful smile, her smooth chocolate skin, her
silly songs, her jokes and the way she “hated to make it rhyme, but she did it
all the time.”
We must keep moving because Matthew
5:4 says blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted. Even when our memories of her aren’t able to
provide comfort, we must keep moving because that’s what she would have done.
So allow me to encourage you
to stand up, take a deep breath, live, learn, and love – because while she was
here, that’s exactly what she did to keep on moving.
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