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“Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
1
Corinthians 15:55 (NIV)
Weary, I picked up my daughter and
headed home as my work week drew to an end.
With a nagging head cold, I wanted
nothing more than to put my feet up and have a nice hot cup of tea, but I
didn’t have time to relax. I was throwing a surprise fiftieth birthday party
for my friend Jeanette. All our friends would be there.
My husband, Bill, as always, pitched
in. Though only seven, our daughter, Mary Elizabeth, did as well. She was
already seasoned in event planning, for we made a point of celebrating every
season and holiday, birthday and landmark in the lives of our family and
friends.
Celebrating
Jeanette’s birthday was
especially important, for she was deep in the trenches of a hard, long-standing
war with cancer. We wanted her party to be something special, so we worked
hard. Everything was ready when our guests began to arrive.
The festivities were just getting
under way when the phone rang. My mother was calling to tell me that my father
had a blood clot and was being admitted to the hospital. Explaining about
Jeanette’s party, I promised I’d be there early the next day.
Still a bit bleary eyed the following
morning, I was driving through the streets of Atlanta toward I-20 when a cross
on the hillside of a cemetery seemed to leap out toward me, and I distinctly
heard the words of 1 Corinthians 15:55: “Where, O death, is your victory? Where,
O death, is your sting?” Instinctively, I knew it was a say.
My father was the child of
first-generation Scottish Americans, and I grew up in a borough in Birmingham
thick with Brodies, Gaelic customs and Scottish burrs. For Scotts, a say is a
telling of what is to come, a premonition with a purpose.
God knew I wasn’t prepared for my
father to die. He wanted to prepare me by reminding me that death is not the
end, but the beginning. I spent that day with my father. He died the next, but
thanks be to God, I am more than certain that I will see him again. Diane
Brodie Terry
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