I have a picture in my mind of Ellen, late one afternoon, sitting in deep discussion with the Spook Group, saying, "There's one thing I really want to do before I die, and that is to learn to FLY!"
She was Harry Potter's #1 fan, the Vampire guys too, (I think she went to Washington State to find them) and numerous fairies and elves and gnomes - so this didn't surprise any of us. She believed she could fly, and who were we to argue?
Well, Ellen died this week, and I'm not sure whether or not she ever figured out the flying thing, but nothing is impossible. If it could be done, Ellen would find a way.
She was a teacher. A teacher of science - how much fun that must have been for the kids she taught! She was pilot and a flight instructor. She was also an architect, designer and builder of houses. Her own, and small, mossy, woody little houses with pebbled pathways, smoking chimneys, and tiny flowers for the fairies she knew who lived in her garden.
I think Ellen was preparing for the world she's in now. I know it's a world full of magic. Full of wizards, fairies, leprechauns and enchantment. There'll be a stream at the bottom of her new garden. A tumbling stream, full of mossy rocks and tiny water nymphs. She'll make friends with the frogs and whatever other life forms reside there. I can see a string of fairies flying around her, showing her where things are. The blue bird nest outside the window of her new house, a flowering shrub of heavenly blue plumbago, and the nests of baby rabbits, Eaglets and young elves. Do elves live in nests? I wouldn't be surprised.
This would be Ellen's Heaven. There'll be mountains, so high they almost touch the clear blue sky. There'll be sunsets that set her world on fire, and stars she can reach for when she sets out on her first solo flight in Heaven.
And when she gets home, Paul will be waiting, Holding in his arms, her cats, and a cushion full of kittens.
Have Fun, my friend! Think of us down here, and please be there to meet us when it's our turn to cross the great divide.
Love, hugs and Happy Landings!
A Shaft of Light
