Hampden DuBose Academy reunion today. SO GREAT to see Miss Tulsa, she's an angel. Also lovely to get better acquainted, just a speck, with some of the other great alum. It's odd to think that there is a limited number of people who attended HDA. It is a dwindling group and one day will be extinct. Not to sully my good memories here, but I think like this sometimes. As a kid I remember sitting at holiday dinners, there were just 7 of us, including my grandparents. I would sit there and realize, One year there may only be 6 of us.

Which reminds me, in the Bible study in which I'm participating, Beth Moore pointed out a verse that says God has set eternity in our hearts. This is why we hate good-byes, they don't seem natural, we are craving forever relationships. Really, I don't like change, especially the kind that involves losing someone. Life just never seems the same after that, and no matter how we long for things as they once were, there is no way to make it happen. BUT, it's a comfort to realize that we can have eternal life, and resisting death or lesser departures is our way of propelling us into that eternity that all ready exists in our hearts.

It was a very blessed day.

KEM