Today is Friday, August 19th, 2011; Karen's Korner #2135
Last Saturday, I attended a funeral of nearly ninety-year-old Rusty Stutters. Sweet lady; someone known around the community.Since her husband was a legally blind piano tuner locally, she was his driver for their fifty-plus years of marriage.
While I was aware of Bud and Rusty all of our more than forty years of marriage, I found there was a lot about Rusty I didn't know.
I didn't know that she had become a ward of state when she was 13 years old. A status she maintained until she was 21.
I didn't know that she was married in 1943 and became a widow two years later, losing her husband during World War II.
What I did know about Rusty was that their family size was limited. She never had children; leaving behind only two nephews.Would she have liked to have had children? I don't know that either.
I do know how positive she was about everything and everyone. Always a sparkle in her eye and a slight smile to her mouth.
She could have been something else, knowing her background and past.
I began to wonder, how many people in my life do I only size up by what I see and know about them today? How many people do we meet that we have no idea what their earlier lives might have held?
Knowing that some people have had very difficult childhoods or the past few years, maybe they need for me/for us to 'cut them slack'.
Dear Father in Heaven, will You help me to think of others I might meet today? Help me to remember that someone who might be difficult, might be struggling with all kinds of hidden things in their lives; even people I think I know pretty well. Help me not to judge someone else too quickly nor too harshly. You could have done that to me, but You chose not to; for that I am thankful. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
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