My Aunt Lora

In preparation for Day Four on the journey to a purpose driven life, God did something nothing short of a miracle for me.  We ARE made to last forever.  As I was opening a can of fruit cocktail, I was filled with a euphoria of love I am unable to explain.  It was if God opened the heavens and I was flooded with feelings of love.

My Aunt Lora used to make fruit cocktail.  She never used the cans of fruit cocktail.  She would buy cans of pears, peaches, apricots, grapes and cherries and spend hours cutting the fruit up for family functions.  I loved her fruit cocktail.  She never understood why I was so crazy about it.  Knowing how much I loved her fruit cocktail, she would make a container for the family function and she would make me "my very own" container.  As the years went by, my container size got larger and larger.  Almost to the point were both containers were the same size.

As I was flooded with this euphoria of emotion last night, I now am able to answer my Aunt Lora as to why I was so crazy about it.  The secret ingredient she added was Love.  She could have just opened a couple of cans of fruit cocktail and been done with it.  However, she added love with each piece of fruit she cut up.  My Aunt Lora was not a woman of many words.  If she used words, they were generally in the form of a question.  She always wanted to know how you were and what you were doing.

My Aunt Lora has given up her "tent" of a body and God has prepared a "house" for her soul and a mansion for her to live in.  Pretty certain God does not have cans of fruit in heaven, but if He does I promise you that my Aunt Lora is cutting up fruit for The Great Wedding Feast and she has made me "my very own" container of fruit.  Do not be concerned.  I am a transformed human being.  I promise to share.

The love I felt from and for my Aunt Lora was overwhelming.  How euphoric is it going to be for you and me when we are in the presence of Love himself?  God is Love.  If there is a way for my Aunt Lora to read this email, I want her to know only one thing.  I love you!