I saw it with my own eyes!

maybe this is him

It is called an Epiphany moment when something that seemed ordinary suddenly seems extraordinary and in the Church calendar it comes in the dark month after Christmas.  In the Bible, Jesus is taken for baptism to the temple and Simeon, the aged priest sees the glory of God in the baby.  He then says those wonderful words….Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to Thy word for my eyes have seen Thy salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people….. Simeon knows that it is a revelation and that this is the one  he has been waiting to see, has been hanging on in the temple to see.

And this is him

This is him

So it is the right time of year for an epiphany moment and though a bit more humdrum than Simeon's I had one.  Our Christmas was a great deal more comfortable than spending the night in a stable, we were in Dubai and it was easy and full of lovely things, the only blight was that he, my life partner, husband, Richard was struck by illness, not stay in your bed all the time illness but debilitating.  We came back and it went on so we weren't really having the best of times.  He gets tired and so the mornings are a bit slower.  I left him to get up slowly one morning and went up later to see if he was alright and found him meditating.  Instead of finding the person I expected, the character which is so familiar, I saw something different.  Yes, it was him, in his good old fleece and crocs sitting in his usual chair by the window but there was no sign of the character, just a great beauty and peace could be felt.  This was an Epiphany moment for me but just in case you wonder where the well known Grandpa, dog walker, log splitter, lover of debate not to mention a good old argument is, here are photographs which shows that epiphany or not, the character is still doing its particular thing!