Profile: Monty

Monty Boren     ©   

7 Feb 01    7am    Wedns     Study

I talked at length with Monty this morning, about the old days and about now.  I expressed my thanks to him for his good friendship when we were boys. We were something. God, did we have fun. Our families were close. Then we started growing up and time led us apart. Monty became a school principal…I became a minister. We had very little touch in our adulthood but I always thought about my old companion…about our joys and our fumbling around trying to figure things out.

We went our ways. I heard little of him. Then I read in that newsletter that day that he was “deceased.”  Deceased. He was too young. What happened?  I wrote his wife twice but received no word back.

Whatever. Monty is on his path. In heaven. On the cycle in another lifetime? It doesn’t matter…he is where he is supposed to be.

I talked to him today and it felt good. I told him how thankful I was for him.

It is my belief that he is free with the spirits and with God. I asked him to watch over his old friend, still chugging away in this three score and ten.

It is my belief that I will be with him again and we will rejoice. In a time that is right, we will be together again.