And so it Begins

Meditation: A contemplative discourse, usually on a religious or philosophical subject.

So it begins, the last day of your life. Do we have any idea when our last day, last hour, last minute, last second has come? Is it a surprise? Will we be doing something heroic? I propose a question that you may or may not have thought about before, "How do you want to be remembered when you leave this mortal world?"

Eddie was a theme park maintenance man at Ruby Pier. His beginning starts at the end or should I say the end of his life. It was his 83rd birthday and he had finished his morning routine and began reflecting about the first time he had met his wife. Which just so happened to be the same place he worked. During this beautifully depicted mental imagery he is interrupted by screams, and not by one of those thrill seeking, throw your hands in the air kind. But by blood curdling shrills. He sat up and saw the drop tower ride stuck hundreds of feet in the air. He and the other workers devise a plan to get the riders stuck at the top down to safety. In their attempts Eddie realizes a cable in the ride had been shredded. He tries to communicate his new found assumption but his voice is drowned out by the roar of the crowd. The workers up top release the emergency brakes and the car begins its plummet to earth. In the midst of this drop Eddie spots a young girl below the cart. He rushes to this child in an attempt to save her life.....

And so it begins, the start of Eddie's heavenly life.

(I will post more about this book later)