The whole trip from
Marathon, NY, back to Elizabethtown, PA, it poured rain. It was hard
to see out the window, but I'm not sure if that was because of the rain
or because of my constant crying. Usually I could keep busy, put
my feelings aside and just take care of what needed done, this way, I could
burry some of the pain I was feeling, making it bearable to go on... but
it wasn't working this time... the doubts and thoughts just kept going
through my head...
But I couldn't seem
to get any peace. I hurt so bad, I wanted to die.. I looked
over at my little son Ezekiel, now almost 3 months old... he would NEVER
know his Dad and sister and brother that were so excited about him being
born... and they would NEVER get to know him... the tears continued to
flow....
My Dad pulled off of
Interstate 81 to a smaller road. We would pass through Hershey, PA,
on our way back to the hospital where Mary was... we had vacationed there
just that summer as a family... I could still picture little Jai so proudly
driving the old cars on the track... I wasn't sure I could take anymore...
where was God... did he care... did he even EXSIST????
Just after we exited
Rte. 81, the rain began to lighten up... I was so glad, because my heart
was so heavy and it was so hard to drive in the rain... as we came around
a corner, I looked to the sky... above the hills was a rainbow... I wanted
to stop, but I couldn't stop unless my Dad did... he was pulling over...
I looked again and the rain had stopped... there was the most beautiful
double rainbow I had ever seen above the hills...
I stood by the road
my Dad held Zeke and I held Kezia... my Dad hugged me as we cried... "Dad,"
I told him... "Jai drew that rainbow for me to let me know he's alright"...
Jai always drew me rainbows, and he asked God if he could make me a rainbow
this time, the most beautiful ever so that I would know that Jai, Phoebe,
Debbie and David are safe in Heaven awaiting my arrival.
I'm not sure how long
we stood there... probably 10-15 mintues... the rainbow didn't even start
to fade. I had wished I had a camera, but I didn't :( We finally
decided that we needed to get going back to see Mary and my Mom... as we
traveled through Hershey, I could see the antique cars that Jai had drove
just that past summer... and I could still see the double rainbow... and
I knew that Jai was in Heaven, happier than he ever was here on earth.
I didn't want to turn in the direction away from the rainbow, but just
before we did, it started to fade.....
When we got back to Elizabethtown to the Rehab hospital and I told my Mom and Mary about the rainbow, they had seen it at the hosptial too.... and now one ever denied that Jai made it for me :)
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