Stories of Us - October 21, 2022

Stories of Us - October 21, 2022
Posted on 10/21/2022
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The intelligent fourteen-year-old boy knew that his mother wasn’t coming back.  Still, Jimmy sobbed himself to sleep asking for some kind of miracle so he could have his mother.  She was taken away so suddenly. 

Mary, Jimmy’s mother, had downplayed the discomfort in her breast believing it to have been a symptom of her change in life as she was getting older.  Too late she had realized what was happening to her.  Being once a nurse at the local hospital she had seen many cases such as hers.  She stayed strong and clung to her faith that things would turn out alright.   It was shortly after surgery to remove cancer that Mary died.

Jimmy, Mary’s eldest son, was inexplicably reeling from the loss when a tapping came at the bedroom door.    It was his Dad’s voice gently calling to his son saying, “I have something for you.”   Jimmy’s public works inspector father had once been a musician in years gone by.  He had been a jazz trumpeter and leader of his own swing band and he still played the piano a little.  So he knew the healing power of music and he hoped that the healing power might help his hurting son.

This overworked underpaid and newly widowed father of two who was grieving himself scraped together more cash than he should really spend to get a musical instrument for young Jimmy.  As he showed him the guitar both sat weeping.  “Nothing can bring your mother back,” the father told his boy.  “Take this. It might make things go easier.”  Jimmy did take the instrument and as his Dad left the room the boy embraced it and he is embracing it still. 

Few musicians who have ever lived have made it as a singer as little Jimmy has.   The instrument that gave him solace after his mother’s death has continued to serve him to this day.  This loyal companion of wood and strings, given to a boy named Jimmy, that was purchased for a hard-earned fifteen pounds in a Liverpool music store in 1956 not only helped a child dealing with death but also created something great for the world. 

Some would say that Jimmy’s mother did continue in her son’s life by “speaking words of wisdom to let it be.”  The guitar comforted and encouraged James Paul McCartney.

Life has many twists and turns that offer us opportunities to get off and give up.  Reaching out and supporting those in need might just change the course of something on the world stage.     Katrina Cole, CEO of Cinnabon, puts it like this, “You never know who will go on to do good or even great things or become the next great influencer in the world.  So treat everyone like they are that person.”   This week is Think Pink once again in order to honor and recognize those that have survived and those that have been lost to breast cancer.  Thanks for those of you who continue to do your part to help those in need around you every day.  

Thanks to those of you who work at keeping each child’s possible future as your end in mind.   https://youtu.be/OX95E5PBYVQ


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Have a great weekend,

Rob

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