“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” —Albert Einstein
People enter our lives for a reason, a season or
a lifetime.
It’s on us to determine if they’re a blessing or a lesson.
This family reunion photo last Labor Day weekend documented
the first time most all of us cousins that had grown up together in central
Kansas gathered together in many years. Given
the social gathering restrictions this year, it was fortuitous that we
scheduled this reunion last year! We all
got together individually off and on, but Sunday afternoons at our grandparents’
home was one of the principle gatherings that united and defined us. We didn’t always get along all of the time,
but we always prayed grace together around the dinner table under lots of loving
supervision. Destiny and divine blessings,
not merely coincidence, brought us cousins together for a lifetime.
And although we didn’t know it at the time, those were critical
developmental years in a child’s life and my lingering memories over fifty
years later are all good. Our generation
has followed our bliss out into this great country like so many others, but we
hold onto those cherished memories, especially on this unique 2020 lockdown Labor
Day weekend where folks are instructed NOT to gather together! There’s no question that we humans keep those
pleasant memories within our grasp while the unpleasant ones drift out of mind. I’m certain that no one left the late-in-life
gathering with nothing but new and resurrected pleasant memories that will now sustain
us this year and into our own grandparenting years, even if it’s often on
FaceTime!
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