The Christianville Spirit
The Spirit that Knows Love
April 10th, 2019-TCS # 635
Happy Homecoming Week, My Readers! Okay, so This is One of Those Greetings of Mine that has a Deeper Meaning! Now, You would think that Homecoming Week means, The Week that You go to the Homecoming Dance, sort of like Prom. It is a Big Thing in Texas, Trust Me! Better yet, Think of it as a Texas Prom. For The Record, I actually went to The Homecoming Dance in High School and Yes, I did most of The Traditions of Homecoming, I digress. So, The Meaning of This So-Called Deep Meaning Greeting! So, First a Little Background Story about This. I will let the 2015 Me Explain!
This Segment of Newsletter was written on April 29th of 2015 (Refer to Newsletter 448)
I am sure that All of You have That One Time of The Year when If Any Anything Bad is going to Happen, It is going to be in That Month. In Other Words, In Everyone’s Family, There is always that One Month of The Year that You dread it coming because You believe something crazy is going to Happen. For Some, It is a Months like September (for those of 9/11), October, May, or (Hopefully Not) December. For Our Family, It seems to be April. Nearing The End of March, We see April coming and We think “Oh No! Not Again!”, Every April, I can’t WAIT for April to be over with and Come Out of It Unharmed. So, Why Exactly do I Hate April? It seems that April is The Month that if Someone is going Pass Away or Something Bad is going to Happen, It will be in That Month and Believe Me, It has happened before. You See, Several Members of The Smith Family have passed away within Days of Each Other in Different Years, The First was Uncle Doc on April 14th, 2007,(on Our Birthday Calendar, We put “Homecoming”); The Next Year, 2008, on April 17th, My Mom’s Dad, Popi passed away; and finally, on April 11th, 2010 My Grandma Honey’s Mom, “Grandma Mimi” as We called her, passed too. That is also not to Mention that My Grandma Honey’s Dog, Sugar passed away on April 30th, 2010. So, Since Popi past away back in 2008, April has been sort of a “Bad Luck Month” for Our Family. Now, I will say that There is Some Light that did Come Out of April, Don’t Worry This Newsletter is not going to be that Depressing, I promise You!
(Back to Present Me)
Now, If You’ll notice, I mentioned that We put The Name of The Person’s “Homecoming” and The Year in which It happened. I’m not sure if I explained it well enough. So, Homecoming (Not The Dance!). My Mom, as well as Her (My) Family, The Smith Family believes that when One goes to Heaven, They are “Going Home”. My Literal Mind thinks “Going Home” means Going Home either to Your Actual Home or Your Hometown. Anyway, Going Home to us means You are going Home to be with God and Jesus because after all, That is Where We all descend for. I noticed with The “Bad Luck Month” of April that All The Deaths that were mentioned from 2015 Me occurred within A Few Days of Each Other in Different Years over The Span of 6 Days, Pretty Much a Week. Now, Yes, I realize that You can’t choose when You die. Death happens Everyday, even on Christmas. But, I think it is Funny and Sad at the Same Time that They occur within a Week. So, Why not make a Memorial Week about it. It may or may not change, The Crazy Month of April, but Why not make Light of it. The Ending of Homecoming Week is My Favourite New Day! The Reason is because I feel that The Person’s Day is Very Important. Yes, I have quite a Few Important Homecoming Days including June 2nd, Ma Day. Honoring My Friend, Deb’s (Shout Out!) Mom who I refer to as Ma and Of Course, One can not forget Lynee Remembrance Day on May 22nd. So, What is The New Day? Well, Last Year was 10 Years since Popi, My Mom’s Dad passed away and I started calling it “Lighthouse Day” because above His Extensive Postage Stamp Collection, was His Lighthouse Collection and Boy, I do remember that He had some Big Ceramic Lighthouses in His Collection. In all Honesty, I would love to have a Few of Them. I mean, You have got to admit that Lighthouses are Pretty Cool! So, Why not name The Day of Popi passing away as Lighthouse Day. It would certainly put Light in an Otherwise Sad Month. Plus, to End Homecoming Week with Lighthouses, How Fun is that?! All in All, Homecoming Week is a Good Way to remember The People that lived, Not always The People that died. It would be Very Depressing the other way around.
Thanks for Reading The Christianville Spirit. Whether You You want to or Not, You should celebrate those who have passed away on Their Days!
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