Today I read in the London Times the obituary of one such ship that passed several times in my life and whom I greatly respected. Ten minutes after reading my wife called to tell me that my good friend of 25 years had died as announced on social media. In my spirit I had reached out as something didn’t feel right and only a few days ago. His death was sudden .
The guy in the obituary was a business legend and his notoriety brought him into print at his final port. The good friend was barely known yet a finer man of immense stature you will rarely meet.
What we leave behind can be summed up in a few words or one page yet in our hearts they can be indelibly etched. Legacy is not necessarily what you have achieved for self but your footprint of good impact in other’s lives.
I guess I sail this morning on the Ship of Reflection and whilst looking back look forward to seeing my good friend again in the next realm for we both believed.
The guy in the obituary met me on ships of commerce, my good friend met me in harbour and we got to know each other. Our highlight was being in a Zoom prayer group based in America and my friend was a sage. I know where he is right now and bar leaving his family of long standing would not want to be anywhere else I’m sure.
We are but ships in passage and our time will come and we will reach the Port of Destination as set out before us.
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