{"id":1926,"date":"2015-09-07T16:49:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2015-09-07T22:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T22:18:33","slug":"bringing-mary-home-jolts-me-into-recalling-the-death-of-junior-and-the-affect-it-had-on-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"“Bringing Mary Home” jolts me into recalling the death of Junior and the affect it had on family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Terry<\/a><\/p>\n

TERRY MOSHER<\/p>\n

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Just now I was listening to Mac Wiseman sing \u201cBringing Mary Home.\u201d It\u2019s the first time I have ever heard this song and it brought chills up and down my arms and tears to my eyes.<\/p>\n

Before I tell you how that jogged my memory and sent me into an emotional spin, here are the lyrics:<\/p>\n

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\u201dI was driving down a lonely road one dark and stormy night<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

When a little girl by the roadside showed up in my headlights<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I stopped and she got in back and in a shaky tone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She said: My name is Mary, please won’t you take me home?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She must have been so frightened all alone there in the night<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There was something strange about her, for her face was deathly white<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She sat so pale and quiet in the back seat all alone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ll never will forget that night I took Mary home<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I pulled into the driveway where she told me to go<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Got out to help her from the car and opened up the door<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But I just could not believe my eyes ’cause the back seat was bare<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I looked all around the car but Mary wasn’t there<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A light shone from the porch, someone opened up the door<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I asked about the little girl that I was looking for<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then a lady gently smiled and brushed a tear away<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She said: It sure was nice of you to go out of your way<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But thirteen years ago today a wreck just down the road<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Our darling Mary lost her life and we miss her so<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you for your trouble and the kindness you have shone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You’re the thirteenth one who’s been here bringing Mary home.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Now this is a true story and one which I have told numerous times before but bear repeating. \u00a0It was May 26, 1989 that our granddaughter Sarah Mary Ann was killed when a truck loading a boat from a lake in Idaho backed over her. Sarah Mary Ann , or Junior as I called her because she had my wife\u2019s names, was just three and half years old and was the love of my life.<\/p>\n

What is important to this story is how it is similar to the song \u201cBringing Mary Home.\u201d\u00a0 Just like in the song, Junior appeared and spoke after her death and in doing so reaffirmed to me the existence of God.<\/p>\n

It took me a while to be accepting of that reaffirmation\u00a0 \u2013 a year in fact. I went on a year-long search for the truth and when I finally found it I had an amazing seven days during which I cried constantly. The crying stopped on the seventh day and I experienced what it is to know True Love, if only for a few hours on that seventh day.<\/p>\n

True Love, which I believe we cannot experience on this Earth because it is devoid of any of the agenda\u2019s that creep into our daily lives like jealousy, anger, bitterness and all the other human emotions we all have at one time or the other. Those emotions keep us from experiencing True Love.<\/p>\n

What happened after the terrible accident that took Junior\u2019s life is our daughter Wendy, Junior\u2019s mother, getting on a plane in Spokane and flying to Sea-Tac where we \u2013 I, Mary and our son Todd \u2013 went to pick her up.<\/p>\n

Wendy would later tell us that all the way on the flight from Spokane to Sea-Tac Junior was with her, appearing on the outside of the plane looking through the plane\u2019s window at her.<\/p>\n

Then as Mary, Todd and I descended down the escalator at the South Terminal at Sea-Tac to catch the underground train I started to hear \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d being played. There is no music there at that particular location. Never has been and still isn\u2019t any. But I heard \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d plain and clear and then just a couple seconds before the train arrived I heard Junior speaking to me. She said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry about me, I walk with the grace of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

The train then arrived, the doors opened, Wendy was the first one out, stumbling and collapsing into her mother\u2019s arms. She was hysterical. It was a terrible scene and one I wish no one would ever have to experience.<\/p>\n

Maybe a month later, Junior appeared to her sister, Julia, who was playing in the front yard of her house. Julia came in and explained it all to Wendy, describing down to the fine details the injuries Junior had suffered in her death. There is no way possible way Julia could have known of the injuries, but she clearly did and that was the final incident related to Junior\u2019s death that was not of this world.<\/p>\n

During that year-long search \u2013 a spiritual awakening, as I call it \u2013 I came to realize that Junior was an Angel sent here to straighten out our family. She accomplished her mission because we all have become very spiritual in the aftermath, including Wendy and her husband Craig who went on to found their own church.<\/p>\n

There are questions left unanswered. One is why did somebody on the other side feel the need to help out our family? We are not special people here on Earth that needed to be saved for the benefit of humanity. Not that we are bad people, but I don\u2019t see us rescuing the world, which as we all know is in terrible shape.<\/p>\n

So why did Junior come to our rescue?<\/p>\n

On a personal level, I have had several other experiences not of this world and at least two of them make no sense at all. Twice I have been told in advance the winner of a horse race, including Summer Bird\u2019s winning trip in the 2009 Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n

One brother dismissed these two experiences as the devil trying to get me to gamble. Well, if that is the case it has failed miserably. I don\u2019t gamble.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure I will find the answers to these questions once I get back on the other side.\u00a0 But for now it\u2019s a puzzle that I can\u2019t solve.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that\u2019s it for today from here in my perch overlooking the water and the boats and the birds and flowers.<\/p>\n

Be well pal.<\/p>\n

Be careful out there.<\/p>\n

Have a great day.<\/p>\n

You are loved.<\/p>\n

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