We met on
a dark station platform
Our little
family of three stumbling out
To the
welcome party of you
The night
split by your smile
You hoped
we would make Igatpuri our home
Purnatha
our lives
It didn’t
quite work that way
Though our
lives have twined
At various
levels
And now
you have reached
An amazing
number of sun-spins
Since your
Amma welcomed you
Into the
Madras of 4th January
In the
year of our Lord 1966
Can it be
that you are fifty?
How does
that number fit you
Dear
friend? Knowing you
There are new
dreams brewing
More
King-pleasing designs
Being
drawn up, dizzying
The road
is your home
Kabul boy,
world-oyster locally-rooted
You ache
for Heimat, for Gaon
Heart-panting
for a coming abode
Garden
city, King encircling, never ending
Far from
Chicken street and yet so close
And now,
just before we part
(For a
moment, an era?)
We have
the added sweet-pain of daughters
As peas,
of families enmeshed
Dreams
alive
Keep
questing deeper, dear Friend
Keep
hungering for that which will truly satisfy
Dig deeper
into He who called you
By name,
as stars and galaxies spun into place
Fifty
years, a moment, a brief candle
A small
trickle, a rivulet before the joyous roar of
Eternity,
yet each sliver of a second, and the next
Priceless,
and paid for in full.
- With love from Andi, Sheba, Asha, Enoch & Yohan Eicher
On Saturday evening we had a lovely 'surprise' party for Vasu to celebrate his half-century along with his wife Sheba and their daughters Joanna and Amy and sundry friends. What a legacy of joy Vasu has. It has been a privilege for us to know him since June 2001, and here is to many more years of sojourning together!
One of the more dramatic times was when he almost died with a brain seizure three years ago. And how grateful we all are to our loving Lord for keeping this remarkable man going. We all agreed that he seems to have found the fountain of youth - a quick survey around the room found 3 baldies and 2 snow-heads... and Vasu looking like he has stepped out of the late 1980s... We are very thankful to the Lord for this special man - and his amazing family!
As we sang on Saturday night (among other songs) for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow... and so say all of us!
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