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Our son, Nolan, was only six at the time. Though we weren’t married, we had an unexplainable bond. Sometimes the hardest things to explain are best left unsaid. My dreams of Tommy take me to that unspoken place. I’d love to share.
We meet on a large green soft grassy hill. An endless pasture and the two of us, our meetings begin and end the same. Sitting peacefully together as one-I turn my head and gaze. I gaze at Tommy as if he were alive and his death a dream. The moment I speak and ask, “Hey, how have you been?” He turns his head toward my face and is stone-faced. I realize he cannot speak. But that’s okay. Because what I need to hear I feel instead. The peace is enough.
And then I remember. We’ve been at this exact spot before! “Thanks for meeting me again.” I smile. But he doesn’t smile back. Instead he looks straight ahead. And as if I had forgotten when we meet that he is unable to speak. So, out of respect, I stop speaking too. We just sit together. We let peace drench us and I silently decide to enjoy the moment instead of trying to make him talk. I never want it to end.
A split blink of my eye and he’s standing. I look over and he’s leaning with two hands placed on a fence, A fence that keeps horses from getting out and running free. He has a white t-shirt with a blue plaid button down left opened for the breeze to blow. That’s how I know it’s not buttoned. The breeze is gentle but enough to blow his shirt for me to see. Tommy slowly turns only his head my way, stone-faced he stares a few seconds, and then he lifts his right arm up and with one hand waves.
But then I realize we’re back on our soft grassy hill. Side by side, still, just the two of us. I don’t try to talk this time. Instead, I trust him to feel all I want to say. A few seconds pass and we separate.
The wave feels like he's saying, "until next time". The wave feels like a cliffhanger at the end of a chapter. The wave is not a permanent good-bye. Because my dreams and God's Word have taught me that good-bye doesn’t always mean forever. As believers in Jesus Christ, it just means...for a little while.
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