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Love Letters
by Debby Topliff on Nov 24, 09 • no comments • Share This
detail from Come and Eat by Debby Topliff
When Painting Revelation was first released we threw a viewing party in our little town of Saugatuck. A few days later I ran into one of our guests, a poet/painter friend who had been widowed for many years. After exchanging the regular friendly words, she looked me hard in the face and said, “I should tell you sometime the story of what happened to me because of your DVD.”
Tell me now, I wanted to say, but waited.
“I went home after the party and dug out my Bible. I wanted to see what it said.” She smiled a little, “I don’t read it very often.”
I knew she sometimes went to the Catholic Church.
“When I opened it up to look for the book of Revelation, I found a letter—from my husband—from 1972.” Her eyes filled with tears. “It was a special letter, a very important letter. Precious to me.”
May we all find love letters when we open the Bible.
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