Acceptance
myDarlin’, tonight as I sat on the deck outside listening to good friends play, a gentle breeze caressed my face. I closed my eyes and listened intently, knowing that you were present in that breeze, dancing to the music with me.
Tomorrow is the reception for the Women in Focus exhibit Behind the Lens, an artist’s choice show, and it is just over six months since I took this photograph of you. It’s funny how life can change in the blink of an eye. It was the First Friday Art Walk and our dear friends were playing a show at the museum where larger than life paintings hung on the expansive walls. The art was stunning; Elvis, Mohammed Ali, Mick Jagger, Forgiveness, Imagine and…. Acceptance. And as the music drifted through the air filling every room, you walked slowly, studying – almost meditating on each one. I had my camera out, not to take photos of the art, but rather of our friends playing and then looked over towards you….
What I saw took my breath away, and I quickly raised my camera to my eye to capture the amazing photo that has changed my life. You had stopped to listen as they sang the song Imagine, folded your hands and bowed your head as you leaned upon a table directly in front of the painting Acceptance. I can see every detail, your large, loving hands folded as if in prayer, your Kona bracelet, the stitching on the hat we bought just months before at the beach, your wedding band, your hairs in your beard. At one point, I wanted to ask you if we could recreate the shot in front of the painting Imagine, but now understand that God had posed this photograph exactly as it should have been.
And as I go back through my archives of photographs to pull this one, I realize that exactly six months ago, you and I sat at the same venue as I did tonight, listening to the same band and now I know for sure that it was you in the breeze tonight. When I shared with my friend that the reception for the exhibit is tomorrow and told her of my pieces, she told me that she remembers seeing this photograph for the first time six months ago and how it made her smile.
Tonight I am filled with gratitude that God saw fit to give me, to give all of us, this profound message. Acceptance. We know that our days are numbered in the Book of Life, and only God knows exactly when he will call us home. I love you myDarlin’ Robert Kenui Pope and through this acceptance find peace knowing that you are with our heavenly Father.
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