Monday, January 14, 2019
Dear Michael, James, Cathy, and Gary, I so wished to be in attendance this day, but medical circumstances have hindered me. There are never the right words to express ones sympathy for ones cousins who are experiencing loss of a much loved one; Aunt Wima. I still have memories of her when I was about two years of age. I remember my mother chasing her down the street with this chicken flapping it's wings that mom had just lopped it's head off. The neighbours just laughed. The way Mom and Aunt Wilma at that time were so endeared to each other, for them they had no other family until after marriage. When speaking with Aunt Wilma about you four, she always had a way to say something that made me laugh. And Gary, I remember one day she made the comment about your development and she said, "And I gave birth to a cute little boy -- now look at him!" I just laughed. I am looking forward in seeing her again. It is the Christian belief that those who have died will live again. This I am convinced. We will be able to laugh once again, to look ahead instead of back to enjoy the pleasures that our Creator had purposed from the very beginning. We will not worry about dying again, sickness, old age, labouring for others that they may profit. We will have an eternity on earth to learn about our family tree and meet them all by the grace of Jehovah's blessings. Please, for her future happiness, do your best to be there for her awakening for she is just sleeping. (John 5: 28,29; Revelations 21: 1-5; John 11: 11-23. With Love, Robert D. Jackson
