ONE LONG GOODBYE

I really hate long goodbyes!!!  However, when you think about it that is just what life is.......... ONE LONG GOODBYE.  I am just leaving the hospital, I went to visit my Great Uncle who is dying.  He is the last of my grandfather's brothers and the historian of our family.  He has always been that "nosy" uncle that wants to know what is going on with everyone.  Now as an adult and a caring and nurturing person too, I know that is not the case.  He really was concerned about our well being.  He wanted to know that we were on the right track and that we tapped into that "Williams Power".  He would always tell me, you come from hard working successful people and you are just as good.  As I sat there and watched him lay in that bed I realize our family and the world was losing something great because he was a great man.  I felt a bit of disappointment in myself because I lived in Albany but I never visited......... I have been so wrapped up in my life that I neglected to visit as I once did.  Now my kids would never get to experience him as I had as a child and an adult.  Has I was leaving I was talking to his son who happens to be a doctor, and he explained his condition as a doctor would.  However, during the conversation he became a son that was battling with the fact that he was losing his father.  As me and my aunt started to cry, he said "God is a healer, and he will either be healed on this side or the other but he will be healed".  That really touched me because he was right.  I told him that something that I keep in my spirit, "God's will is greater then our desire"!!!  83 years on this earth, doing God's work is a long time.  I thank God for the time that he was with us because he has had a long goodbye...................