"She's Gone, Oh Yeh, I'll Pay the Devil...."

No, Noone can replace Our girl, the miracle gift from God for my Old Age! Yes she is gone but still manifesting herself in expected and unexpected ways.
I'll enumerate a few:
*Email from the MTC!
*Shame for not writing more...I've sent 2 packages and 2 emails and A postcard, but am being out-done by others.
*Lists of requests: much of which I take satisfaction in. (I will not say the dreaded I.T.Y.S).

The house is quieter, more empty than ever, her reminders abound. We never got enough done in a day to please me. And now she's getting so much done in her day I'm jealous.

Just A Year and a Half........
It will be Spiritual. Tearful. And full of growing experiences for us both. We, Jim and I, are now attached to email like an invisible ambilical cord still exists. She holds our hearts in a strange and not so healthy way, or so several boy's told her.

Are all our eggs in her basket? Most definitely NOT. We have done this casting forth before. But we are feeling rather like expectant parents, hanging on every pain, sigh, complaint, or elation, and doing our share of reading between the lines.

We wait, and take joy in this process we have come to know. It has a pattern of wonder that evolves in God's good time, and teaches us to 'wait upon the Lord' and do our best to do Our part. And check our mailboxes.