In the post for Christmas
day, I told how my school days friend, Phyllis Graham, as a newly minted PhD
math prof at INSU, came to hear me preach, when I was a newly ordained
minister, Methodist campus minister at INSU.
She waited until everyone
else had left, then grabbed a handful of my pulpit robe and pulled me down to
her face level and said, a bit fiercely, “You don’t know it yet, but when
you’re in that pulpit, you’re something special, and people will believe what
you say just because of the way you say it. So you make damn sure that what you
say is true.”
I told that story at her
funeral, and ended by saying…”and so, friend Phyllis, for you, I shall tell the
truth one more time. You loved, and you are loved, and death does not end
love.”
Those are good words to
hear as we start this new year.
John Robert McFarland
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