Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Miss Emma!

 

Miss “Emma!”

 

She wore bibbed overalls, a faded light blue long sleeve shirt,

work boots and a beat-up old straw hat which had seen its better

days. Miss Emma always looked like Grandmas ought to look.

 

In her long ago youth, she, no doubt, was a most curious little

girl, always exploring everything; she loved Mother Nature and

while she was popular and well-liked, she enjoyed her own company.

 

Emma lived alone in an old brick house which sported a generous

front porch where she spent summer evenings watching traffic pass

by on a once busy highway now vacated by a new thoroughfare.

 

The comfortable residence had been her parents and their parents before

them; Emma had never lived anywhere else and had never married.

 

The ancient pick-up truck she drove to church and the IGA in town had

probably, at some earlier date, been a bright, shiny red; her favorite color.

Oh! It was still red, sort of, after thirty years, mostly “red”-rust. C’est la vie!

 

Emma’s delight and mission in life was to grow beautiful flowers; she

even had a smallish greenhouse in her side yard. She sold to friends and

neighbors, nothing commercial; just a personal Love!-hobby! Amen!

 

In later years, Emma hired a young boy from the church congregation to

help out with chores; Matt later became a preacher-man in the church.

 

Each Easter, Emma delighted giving each of the Sunday school children

a colorful pansy in full bloom; they loved the gift---and…Miss Emma!

To this day, many still tell their children and grandchildren of her kindness.

 

After our Miss Emma sojourned on to her celestial garden where she now

helps His Saints & Angels tend myriad fragrant glorious colors and subtle hues,

her “Preacher”-man honored her precious-memory in a “tribute”-sermon.

 

He talked about her Christian-generosity kindness and special love of

flowers, also, mentioning his annual Easter pansy-gift from her. Amen! 

 

  Poor old Emma! She left an estate of over $3-million!

Saints among us! Angels, too! Indeed!

 

His bona-fide “elites” never glow faux-celebrity---only…exemplar-Love!

 

Amen!

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