Someone familiar at the Graveyard

The strangest thing happened to me today. I was attempting to prune the back yard trees, and got this fungus off the Italian Plum tree. Complete with carving knives, bleach water and saw, I carefully removed the black growths on the branches.Apparently, these fungus' have to be burned, and not composted.  I had no idea what these growths were until the gardener at Art Knapps told me. This surgery, was then followed by late summer pruning of branches on my sour cherry, peach and apple trees. I only have a few in total, but enough to have given me a blister.The realization that all this is necessary to bring forth much fruit next year, was a constant reminder in my head. In my life, I have been pruned to the core of my existence, and pray that God will receive glory in all that I have every done.

 I left the unfinished project, and went to the cemetery to water Deborah's Gerbera plant. On my way out, I saw a mother with four boys in a different section of the graveyard. I was impressed with all the children ages approximately 12 down to age 5. I stopped my car to ask who was buried that they came to honor. She said it was the boys grandmother and great grandmother and several premature or miscarried babies. When I told her, she looked familiar, I asked if they sing, and she said, yes, on the psyche ward at Surrey Memorial Hospital. Right away the connection was made in my head. This dear family was there at the Hospital, singing to the patients in the hallway, when Deborah was hospitalized around Christmas.  They attend a church in White Rock. I shared her my blog information and after some prayer we parted. What a sweet, sweet presence of God in our midst. The sun was warm and the grass was green. My soul was refreshed that perhaps the next time we meet, we will all be together in Paradise, with all our loved ones who have gone before. She was wise to mention that only those who have gone asleep in the Lord will be resurrected the first time, those who have died without Jesus, will be resurrected at the very end for judgement.