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Gee, it’s Going to be a Beautiful Day
It was June, 1983. My two sisters, father and I sat in a North Carolina hospital room. My mother lay in the bed, dying. She had always been a strong woman, but the last three weeks had left her an empty shell of her previous self. Semi-conscious. Her lips, dry and cracked. Her voice a few moans. Her eyes, a fog of lifelessness.
That night I decided upon the inevitable. It was time to let her go. I went to the chapel, and I gave God permission to take her. I returned to my room contented. I knew, by the next morning, it would be over. I slept a contented sleep.
Instead I awoke to a rustling in the bed. She was still hanging on.
Why had God ignored me? I had given him my permission to take my mother. Then she rolled her head over toward the window. The newly risen sun was bursting through the window. She opened her eyes. Eyes no longer lifeless, but rather sparkling from the sunlight. And she spoke her first coherent words in a week.
“Gee, it’s going to be a beautiful day.”
We rushed to her side.
“Momma, do you know me, it’s Jerry.”
“Of course I know you, you’re my son.”
We spent a joyous day. Several relatives came down.
We laughed. We joked. We lived. I didn’t want the day to end. But it did.
The next morning, just before sunrise, we awoke to the stirring of angel’s wings. The morning before, my mother had awakened before the risen sun. Today, she awoke before the risen Son.
It took me a couple of weeks to recognize the miraculous gift God had presented me. If he had taken my mother the previous night, my memories today would be of her lying in her death bed, lips cracked, eyes lifeless. Instead, my final memories of her are… a beautiful day.
While I’m at home I sleep facing a window that faces the morning sky. The view I awake to is that shown at the top of the article. When I am at our condo in Myrtle Beach, or on a cruise, I try to watch the sunrise. And the first words that I speak are Gee, it’s going to be a beautiful day. Then I go out and make it one.
My prayer is that
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will make each and every day beautiful for you.
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