Eternal relationships

Jim just sent me an e-mail about a country song with a great message called "Choose Ye This Day..." He doesn't usually enjoy country music, but made an exception in this case. I thought about what he'd said while I worked in the garden this morning; about country (or any kind of) songs with great messages. I love all kinds of music, as you can tell by my playlist on this blog. But one in particular has always touched me, because it reminds me of people I miss, people I've never even met in this life. Randy Travis did a song years ago called "He Walked On Water." In it he tells about the sweet relationship between a young boy and his Great-Grandfather. The line "my Mama's Daddy was his oldest son," gets me every time I hear it. I would love to have had a relationship like that; but the man who most closely fits that description for me was killed by lightening when my Grandaddy Templin was just a little boy. So I missed out in this life, but I look forward to getting to know him and many others in the next...many, many years from now. If you'd like to listen to it, it's on my playlist, or you could go to this link
http://www.mtv.com/videos/randy-travis/58794/he-walked-on-water.jhtml