The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #78494 Message #1411746
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
16-Feb-05 - 10:34 AM
Thread Name: Tomorrow will be another great day
Subject: RE: Tomorrow will be another great day
Thanks again for this thread, Jimmy: It gave me a chorus to a song:
Yesterday is gone and tomorrow is not promised
So let us rejoice in today
Cherish the moment and give thanks for your blessings
Before they start slipping away
I'm sure the verses will come.
Thinking about this thread lying in bed in the middle of the night, I thought of a conversation my wife and I had last Sunday. We went down for "fellowship" after the church service on Sunday, and after we were seated, an elderly woman came up and sat at the table across from us. We had only seen her once before and because the congregation is small, we pretty much know eveyone, at least by sight.
We said "hello" and introduced ourselves, and she told us her name is Betty. She said that she's been a member of the church for a long time, but hadn't been coming often in recent years, She was taking care of her husband until he died. We asked her when he died, and she told us "In December." And then she said something that really bowled me over. She said, "We were married over forty years, and he never saw me." Her husband was one of eleven children and she said that he had seen all of his older brothers and sisters, but by the time the youngest ones were born, he had gone blind. I was very moved by her conversation. She worked at K-Mart for many years, until the one in our area closed.
People sometimes wonder where the inspiration comes for songs. The truth is, we are surrounded by songs that have not yet been written. It's a matter of listening carefully, in order to hear them.
I suspect that someday I'll write a song that's "Pretty good."
You're a good man, Jimmy T.
Jerry