April 28, 2006
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I wish you enough
Recently I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments
together at the airport. They had announced the departure.
Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, “I
love you and I wish you enough”.
The daughter replied, “Mom, our life together has been more than
enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom”.
They kissed and the daughter left. The mother walked over to the
window where I was seated. Standing there I could see she wanted and
needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me
in by asking,
“Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?”.
Yes, I have,” I replied. “Forgive me for asking, but why is this a
forever good-bye?”.
“I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the
reality is – the next trip back will be for my funeral,” she said.
“When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough’.
May I ask what that means?”.
She began to smile. “That’s a wish that has been handed down from
other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone”.
She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in
detail and she smiled even more. “When we said , ‘I wish you enough’, we
were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough
good things to sustain them”.
Then turning toward me, she shared the following as if she were
reciting it from memory.
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much
bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.
She then began to cry and walked away. They say it takes a minute to
find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them,
but then an entire life to forget them. Send this to the people you will
never forget and remember to send it back to the person who sent it to
you. If you don’t send it to anyone it may mean that you are in such a
hurry that you have forgotten your friends.
TAKE TIME TO LIVE…..
To all my friends and loved ones, I WISH YOU ENOUGH
LOVE AND LIGHT—-STARWOLF
Comments (6)
That is so very nice. I must say that I think those thoughts when I say “s’long” to my loved ones. Especially when I said “S’long” on my last visit when I flew up for the shower. “It may be the last time…” You just never know when the “last” time will be.
After my visit, the words of the Gaither song, “We have this moment to share…” Yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come..
Good bye sounds so very final. I always say, “S’long” but Good bye is just a contraction of “God be with you.”
I wonder just how old that mom was?
That’s very nice. I have always said I pray you have enough but never more than one needs. Wishing you a happy weekend .
from us 3 Virginia Girl’s
Most excellent of wishes.
Thats vary nice have a nice weekend.
You’re back! Yay!!! I missed you!!!!!!!!!
What a wonderful way to send one off! I try not to say goodbye but I do and must change my ways