May 27, 2008
Ambiance
Marsha Williams died Friday last after a long tour with the big C. Among her many talents, she had computer skills beyond imagining. I’ll miss her as a friend and be lost without her as the Webmaster for Out of Nowhere and The Covenant Journal (covpubs.org). I can hear her now when I’d call about one of my many computer glitches. “I told you how to do that a month ago! You should print it!” followed by telling me patiently once again.
We’ll celebrate her life this Saturday morning at St Ann Church as near as we can in the manner in which she wished, an ambiance evincing of the Big Easy. The Requiem Eucharist will be surrounded with my band playing Dixieland Jazz, beginning with her favorite, “I’ll Fly Away,” spicing the service hymns a bit, then processing out, the band leading the congregation with “The Saints Go Marching In.” French Market fare will be served at the reception.
Conversations our last few weeks putting all this together left me feeling that Marsha was one of those tour guides who already knew so much about where she was going that she’d surely already been there herself in one way or another.
The Lord lift up his countenance upon her and give her peace. So be it.
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