Moments

Asleep on the bed, crisp white pillow against his skin. Slight lines appear on his skin, not like aging but more like a life well lived. With his eyes closed against the light of the day - I realize it was a nap time for Delbert, and yet he has a big smile on his lips for all to enjoy. "Come on in, now I see who you are, I would love to sit and have a "reading". That is what he calls it. Sometimes he reads to me from the pages of his big print bible but today I will read to him from Acts chapter 13. I read and he listens and the more I read words I didn't understand the more I understood them. After chapter 13 is read he told me he is not tired and was thinking about getting out his guitar... Oh how I love these moments! Carefully he takes out the electric guitar from its case and sets all the dials. His kids bought him this guitar... they wouldn't tell him the price - but, he knows he tells me that it was no cheap purchase! He holds the guitar and strums with long musical fingers calloused from many years of holding down metal strings. We take out the music books and start to sing. My favorite was when he started singing "I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold, I'd rather have Jesus than stories untold..." His 92 year old tenor voice filled that small room and the presence of God was ushered in - my insides were filled with a magical love - it was no longer Delbert and I singing - it was a choir of angels telling our hearts stories of days gone by and days on the road to Heaven. My time with Delbert is time spent with the Lord - why is that I have been blessed to spend this moment in time with this wonderful man? How can I ever thank this 92 year old man for what he has given me? To be escorted to the gates by this man, to hear Heaven in my heart, to feel the brush of angels wings on my face and to know the God he sings to is the one who loves me too! Lord, how I love these moments... THANK-YOU!

(The names, dates, places have been changed, these stories are true only in my mind)