The Widows Walk

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Psalm 16’s Theme in the New Living Translation Is:

The joys and benefits of a life lived in companionship with God. We enjoy these benefits now and eternally.

I normally don’t read the themes. But yesterday’s study brought me to this Psalm. My husband and I where both just beginning our walk with Jesus when we got married. Our first dates where visiting churches trying to find a “Home”. Our second Sunday took us to Calvary Community. Pastor Jim Price and his wife Peggy immediately welcomed us in.

v3: The godly people in the land                                                                                               are my true heroes!                                                                                                        I take pleasure in them!

The service met in a theater for the performing arts, which felt homey for my actor husband. The core congregation mobilized every Sunday AM and not only had everything ready for Pastor but also had a coffee and donut bar all set up. This enabled great fellowship. My husband was skeptical at first not believing we could have found a home so effortlessly. But a woman knows! I didn’t need to continue searching. It was time to settle in and listen to Pastors in depth teaching. ( he was our first pastor who knows Greek so it was fascinating. Jim has also been known for his use of maps which is also a great tool)

We were married just weeks after by Pastor Jim in the backyard of the couple who invited us to Calvary.                                                                                                        Our lives have stayed connected these 12yrs. Not side by side, but intertwined, weaving in and out as God sees fit.

v11: You show me the way of life,                                                                                            granting me the joy of your presence                                                                            and the pleasures of living with you forever.

 

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The Widows Walk

Today I went through the music books, scores and related guitar books I had kept back, just in case someone we know would want it. I,m going to be donating it to the Banjo Museum here in Bricktown.

Yesterday I went to a pancake breakfast put on by my water exercise teachers church as an annual fundraiser. One of our fellow members plays banjo and his band played in the fellowship hall. My husband would have loved it. The museum will take the music.

About two weeks before my husbands death, I asked him to go through his private papers. It overwhelmed him and he asked me to ” just get rid of it, there was a lifetime of personal work there”. The bits of music score, the collaborations with other musicians, plays that he had worked on… I had to be ruthless. It was horrible. In solidarity I went through my own personal stuff. It is amazing what we find so important. I wouldn’t want my sister to have to weed through all that stuff.

It’s a perfect picture, and sense , and essence of my husband, this bag of music. His choices a reflection of him. Pete Seeger, Dylan and Fahey is his style. The Beatles mixed in with a thick book of Maranatha Praise Music thats who he was. He loved the old tunes. “You are my Sunshine” was on the music stand when he died. He had me tune into the Gospel Music Station from Broken Arrow and admitted confidentially that he really did like country music after all. He had thought Lawrence Welk “square” most of his life, but we both immediately chose it when it aired on tv. Of course we said we were putting the champagne music on for the parakeets enjoyment.

My husband was a music man and I can hear him in me,