I just wanted you to know...

Kenny waits by the dumpster
for a couple of bucks&
john 3:16 hope

Susan Beth Furst
November 2015


I have kept this poem since 2015, the year I started to write haiku. I have sent it out a few times, but it was never accepted for publication. Maybe it is just a well. The poem is about a friend I haven't seen in a long time. He used to stand in his spot, in the Walmart parking lot, and I would drive by with some dollar bills and a Jesus Pen or a gospel. Kenny was always happy to see me. We would talk about things, and he would hug me through the car window. He called me his angel. What he didn't know, was that he was my angel.

Then one day Kenny wasn't there anymore. I asked his friends but no one knew where he was. Eventually I just stopped asking. But I never forgot him, Kenny. If he is still alive I hope he is doing well. If not, I think he is in heaven, looking down on me, or maybe he is having too much fun, exploring the universe with Jesus by his side.

"Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!"
Hebrews 13:2 NLT

Life is funny, you're here and then you're not. People come and go and it is never easy when they leave, especially when they die. 

Albert Finney died yesterday. I loved him, even though I had never met him. I love his movies, especially Scrooge. It is one of my all time  favorites. I remember my parents dragging me and my sisters kicking and screaming to the movie theater. I was fifteen and I didn't want to be seen with my mom and dad at the movies on a Friday night. But I got over it real fast. The movie was Brilliant! The music was Brilliant! Albert Finney was Brilliant!

One of my favorite lines from the movie is strangely appropriate on the occasion of his passing.

"Remember Scrooge, Time is short, and suddenly you're not there, anymore!"
The Ghost of Christmas Present

We would all do well to remember that.


For Albert Finney, I shall miss you...

That night
at the movie theatre
Thank you very much...



One last thing. The Hope.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."
John 3:16 NLT

The New Living Translation of the Bible is very readable and easily understood. I highly recommend it!

Until next week...

Hopefully,


Susan 

;)

PS  Check out "Life Poems," on this blog. I am open for submissions of haiku, haibun, or short poems which celebrate the inherent value of life, inside and outside of the womb. Guidlines are on the Life Poems Page. Thank you!

Susan