Beautiful Women

The Fabulous Virginia - photo credit: John Rankine

This morning I had the honor of playing organ for a celebration of life, and I’m still feeling elated! The well-loved woman had been Eureka’s first woman president of the Rotary Club and the multi-talented owner of a fabulous antique shop (only two hats of many she wore). While listening to people’s words about her, my mind visited two other women I know and love. One is pictured here and she once made national news by stealing Baby Jesus from the crèche in Basin Park. Her granddaughter thought it would be a good idea and Virginia agreed! This photo is from a Sunday visit to church and then lunch at a local restaurant. Another matriarch of Eureka Springs is a personal hero of mine. She is always cheerful and helpful, giving people a boost when they need it, and now that her mobility requires a wheelchair she is receiving that helping hand from many others. She lives an active life of service and is as beautiful as the first day I met her three decades ago. At one time someone suggested we should have a calendar featuring the beautiful white-haired women of Eureka. I must say I agree!! Here’s to all of us who keep on doing what we do best, despite physical and mental impediments. Cheers!!

“How beautiful indeed are the Thoughts of God who live in His light! Your worth is beyond perception because it is beyond doubt. Do not perceive yourself in different lights. Know yourself in the One Light where the miracle that is you is perfectly clear.”
A Course in Miracles T-3.V.10:6-9

“Even Shakespeare’s poetry pictures age as infancy, as helplessness and decadence, instead of assigning to man the everlasting grandeur and immortality of development, power, and prestige.” 

Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 244:27-32