The glimpse today during a rainy morning walk. I was holding the umbrella that dad used with GWW on the handle. Remembrance of him walking for over 26 yrs to meetings which I'm sure he carried this umbrella, where decisions and structures determined. Then thought of how as the umbrella covered, sheltered, protected me so he provided a safety and shade in my life for so many years. There were times the winds sought to blow inside-out his umbrella but sure he used his engineering mind to keep it just at the correct angle to rightly deflect the winds. So many times he was prepared but just drops of rain may have fallen when bright sunshine broke through the overcast sky- the joy an smile.
" I certainly never knew, on the whole, so extraordinary a man."
"Heartfelt delight" in all of life.
"Knowledge which transmutes the heart and character, by assimilating influence, into the image of the principles which it unfolds."
(Wilberforce, a friend- knows by the sound of his voice and the expression of his face what he is about to say)
The umbrella weathered the storm
a shelter in the rain
Borne to meetings
Affecting many and structures in time
Protection, coverage
drops of rain,
sunshine breaks through
Safe in the windy days,
Shade,
seeking the good
