mylovingheart

My late husband Ed saved the best for the last day of my trip. I had a friend tell me to bring something of Ed’s and bury it in New Zealand. I chose his Jerusalem Cross necklace. God was in the details. About two weeks before the trip I was talking to a client that said he would not be ready to buy until January. I told him that was okay because I was going to be gone until January on a trip. He asked where I was going and then tells me his mother was currently in NZ. He had his mom call me and she was on the exact trip that I was taking. The reason Ed wanted to go to NZ was every time he saw Lord of the Rings he knew he wanted to go there. Toward the end of the call with my client’s Mom she told me “By the way when you go to Mt. Cook you will be passing the film site of the prequel to Lord of the Rings”. I instantly knew where I was to bury it.

The hard part of losing someone after a 7 year battle with cancer was the realization that they were actually GONE. You never really imagine that one day they would really be gone. The last day at the beginning of the hike there was an alpine memorial. When I walked up to it there was this plaque for someone who had died that was at eye level–the first thing I saw.