Lost Opportunities!!

As some friends know, I have recently been doing some Spring House cleaning.  Every year when I take up this project I always manage to stumble upon some interesting finds.  I have been working for several decades on family genealogy and as a result I tend to have files of documents related to the research and often need to do a little cleaning out in that arena.

Another prelude….I come from a very large extended family, I have/had a large network of aunts and uncles and still have many, many cousins.  I am not going to identify which side of the family this came from, but will say it was an uncle.   

This particular uncle was someone I did not actually know well.  He moved from our home base before I was born and while I met him on rare occasions, I never did get to really know him, although whenever he was around, I truly enjoyed his company.

So, this week, during my cleaning exercise I came across a document from this uncle.  He wrote a letter to his siblings letting them know that he and my aunt were making their final arrangements as it seemed a good time to do so.

In this letter he is explaining why there will be no minister conducting his funeral service.  And I quote….. “I’ve never adopted any orthodox religion because I’ve not found one that fulfills my expectations.  The Almighty I envision created or caused to be created this universe and all that’s in it.  He would not leave anyone nor anything out.  He would not exclude Muslims, nor Hindus nor any of the many other relations.  Whether He moved on to create other universes or hang around to see how this one does, I don’t pretend to know.  It seems reasonable to me that He moved on as His work here was so perfectly in order that no oversight was required.  The system works fine and He made it possible for intelligent (?) life to evolve on this tiny planet, and probably on many others, and assumed that further supervision would be redundant.  But then why try to apply logic to something that is totally beyond my comprehension?”

He wrote more, but I will stop there.  Geeze….I wish I had know him better.  We would have had soooo much to talk about!!!