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I see ghosts sometimes.
I see ghosts sometimes.
As I walk around Liberty, especially amongst the students, I see things. I hear things.
Sometimes I hear a laugh, I see a shape, a fleeting glimpse.
Then a rush of memories flood my mind. Times long gone, conversations from another time, all rush in without hesitation. They dance around me, warm me, and suddenly I’m transported through time and space and for a brief second I am once again . . . a kid, a teenager, I’m a thousand things all at once.
I start to turn, to shout “s’ up” and images, sounds, smells, feelings, thoughts all crash into the back of my mind. For the briefest of moments I am left all alone in time.
But it is a brief second, maybe two.
A small smile crosses my mind. The illusion, the memory is gone, stored in back into the conscious collections of Neurons and proteins from which it emerged awaiting the next trigger.
I switch my laptop from one hand to another; I scan the crowd for the source of the memory. Then oddly I say a small prayer for those around me, that they will have friends as I have, memories as I have.
Its then that the wonderful gift I have hits me and I realize how lucky and fortunate I am in this all too brief life.
Now I know what He meant when he said “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,” Phil. 1:3
I arrive at my class and the ghosts retreat and await their next surprise and all is well with me.
Did You Know?
children of men
My wife and I saw the movie this past weekend. I really enjoyed it (which suprised me since I was prepared to hate it). I really liked the long shots (not sure what else to call them), I mean some of them were like 12 minutes long and had tons of action in them. That was no easy feat to pull off but it really gave the film an authentic feel.
I loved the little touches: workstations that had dust covers (no new jobs), their are no schools or children. and then the surprise is the Pink Floyd Album “Animals” is a ’set’ in the film. I googled the topic and most people talk about it from when he was INSIDE the Ministry building the pig and chimneys can be seen through the windows. But on the drive into the ministry you can see almost and exact reproduction of the album cover.
and so it begins . . .
So their you are, your tooling along and *snap* your life changes. When my wife first told me we were going to have a baby, I knew my life had changed forever. I remember where I was and what I was doing, and most importantly I remember what I said, “and so it begins . . .”
I know it wasnt the smartest thing I have ever said. but its how I felt.
Well this weekend, I realized my life had once again changed. excercise, food and drink, all had changed for me forever. I can no longer just pick up a donut, drink a Dr. Pepper, eat potato chips, etc. etc.
Its not a diet, it cant be, it has to be that I have a new lifestyle. Its like smoking. no one is quitting smoking. You either smoke or you dont. If I ‘diet’ it implies that I can start doing those things again. I cant, I love seeing, having my feet, my health, my life. So forever my life is now changed and I morn (just a bit) for my life that was. But today is today and tomorrow is coming whether I want it to or not.
and so it begins . . .