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Ginger Boys

4/8/2015

 
On this date, many years ago, a little boy named Simon died. I'm not sure his father and I will ever get over it.  Simon has older brothers here on earth - Older Son and Younger Son - who remember him, but just barely. Simon had red hair and blue eyes.  


For years after he died, I was unable to hold other people's young children at all.  I told myself that at some point I would get past the pain enough to do so, but I wasn't sure when.  It took me a while to realize that one nevers gets over such a loss, but that one learns to live with the pain and continue to live life.  


Then one week, almost 12 years later, I was ministering in a small church.  A family was there with a baby boy.  Something happened during a dinner - I still can't remember what - and the mother just sort of thrust the baby at me and said, "Hold him just for a minute".  Well, what else was I to do?  I held him.  He smiled at me, and snuggled right up to me.  And it was okay.


This past Sunday was Easter.  Older Son and Daughter in Law showed up as a surprise for Leon and me.  We were delighted.  They have two beautiful children: Emma, who is in kindergarten, and Max, who is seven months old.  Max has big blue eyes, and ginger coloured hair.  I've held Max many times, of course, but Sunday was different, because it was so  close to Simon's anniversary.  While we were in church, I had a chance to hold him during communion.  Max sat quietly in my lap.  I leaned over for a kiss, and I said, very quietly, "you look just like Simon".  And Max looked into my eyes with that all knowing wisdom that sometimes seems to stream from very young eyes, and smiled very broadly, then patted my mouth with his little starfish hand.  


Then he went back to chewing on his teether. 


 Because life goes on.  As well it should.  For Max.  For all of us.  Even some of us who will always have scars.  And that's okay.  We have a saviour whose life shows that scars are sometimes the way we are known.

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    Reverend Donald Chase, Minister

          We welcome back to First Christian Church the Rev. Don   Chase, who was installed as FCC Minister on November 4, 2018. Reverend Chase is the director of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and Clinical Chaplain at the Lexington VA Medical Center, where he has served   for the past 12 years.  He is an ACPE Certified Educator with the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE), Board Certified Chaplain (BCC) with the National Association of VA Chaplains (NAVAC), and an ordained minister with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).  

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