Yesterday….
all my troubles seemed so far away. As we turned onto our road, myDarlin’ at the wheel, the conversation turned to our ten year plan to move back to Hawaii. He had his checkup in April, the doctor said that he was doing great and we both let out a sigh of relief. You see, that was the trouble that we felt was teetering on the edge of our world and this news quelled any apprehensions we had. And as we came to the speed hump in the road, he said,” I don’t think I could ever live without you, I hope when God calls us home that we go together – but many years from now.”
Today, I walked the road barricaded for the street festival, and there were bubbles coming from a small automatic machine. I tried to capture one of the iridescent spheres on my fingertip, but miss as it floats high above my reach. I don’t see it burst, but know that eventually it will.
I think about the 4th of July festival myDarlin’ and Kona were scheduled to play, and how excited he was about the beach balls he had customized with the Kona logo. He had visions of beach balls, bubbles and music floating in the air.
We’re on the patio at NY Pizza, and one of our new Kona Ohana asks the band to play Sweet Caroline. No one is too keen on learning it, but our friend’s persistence makes it hard to resist and before you know it – ba-ba-ba- good times never felt so good.
Today, as I slipped my Leilani’s Aloha Lounge tie-dye over my head and pulled it into place, I can almost hear myDarlin’ and my conversation as I rinsed the dye off of my shirt in the kitchen sink. The colors were not nearly as vibrant as some of the other shirts. Was it the way that I tied it? Did I not have the dye hot enough or leave it in long enough? “Baby, he said to me, that’s the beauty of it. Tie dye, just like every person, is unique – no two will ever be the same design or the same color no matter how hard we may try.” And the funny thing is…. that I have grown to love this particular tie dye shirt, as it also mimics the tie-dye of my skin as it loses its’ color.
I close my eyes and a drop of liquid prayer rolls down my cheek as our friends sing ‘Yesterday’, then smile as Sweet Caroline follows it.. I am filled with gratitude for bubbles and beach balls, festivals and music, tie dye and Ohana, for ten year plans and conversations with myDarlin’ Robert Kenui Pope that permeate my mind. I am filled with gratitude as I trust that God has a plan for us to spend eternity with him.
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.
--John 4:14
--John 4:14
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