Wednesday, May 7th, 2025. 5:31 AM.
Mr. Fountain of Sweet Avenue
This true story is not about Mr. Fortin and the chimney swifts that flew above his house in the evening.
This true story is about another man who was also elderly as Mr. Fortin was.
However, Mr. Fountain was known to me by what my grandmother told me about him.
He would come walking on the sidewalk of Sweet Avenue in the evenings. He wore an off-white broad-brimmed hat that reminded me of Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame. Except that Kentucky Fried Chicken and Colonel Sanders hadn’t become famous yet, in the 1950s. And my grandmother, who owned the property where we lived at 74-76 Sweet Avenue in the 3-story tenement house, she told me that Mr. Fountain drank. And I wondered, if maybe the reason he drank had something to do with a mysterious occurrence that was related to the great hurricane of 1938. Mr. Fountain’s wife’s casket from Precious Blood Cemetery – way over at the corner of Diamond Hill Road and Rathbun Street – her casket came floating all the way to Sweet Avenue and landed at his house. And this evening I was recalling all that my grandmother had told me about this event. And I had a positive thought about how Mr. Fountain may have understood this happening to him.
Imagine if someone had read to Mr. Fountain, a poem by Elizabeth Barrette Browning. And, as a matter of fact, there was another man who lived on Sweet Avenue; and his name was Barrette. And he was also an elderly man. And he had a big garden. And his garden was directly between his house and Mr. Fortin’s house. And it was directly across the street from my grandmother’s property. And she had a garden, too. And one of my three sisters – her middle name is Elizabeth.
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Poems | Academy of American Poets
I just had a thought about Elizabeth Barrett Browning – about her name. I wonder if her friends called her Betsy – Betsy Browning – or even Betsy Barrett Browning. Her name has a nice sound to it – a nice ring to it. Betsy Barret Browning. My very first social worker’s first name was Betsy.
Ring Of Fire Johnny Cash lyrics
Ring Of Fire Johnny Cash lyrics
In The Garden by Anne Murray with Lyrics
In The Garden by Anne Murray with Lyrics
My grandmother, and my mother, and my older sister all have the middle name: Ann.
|THERE IS A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD | | LYRIC VIDEO| HYMN by WILLIAM COWPER
|THERE IS A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD | | LYRIC VIDEO| HYMN by WILLIAM COWPER
God Moves in A Mysterious Way with Lyrics
God Moves in A Mysterious Way with Lyrics
I read all The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories; and many Sherlock Holmes stories; and watched a TV series called “Mystery Woman.” But the mystery of God is spiritual. And we must become born again to see the kingdom of God and to enter His kingdom.
John 3-4
John 3-4 ESV – You Must Be Born Again – Now there was – Bible Gateway
In our Lord Jesus’ Name . . .
Heavenly Father
We ask You to bless us all with Your grace as we read this and listen to the songs – just as we ask You Father to bless us as we read Your Holy Scriptures – so that Your Holy Spirit will bless our hearts and minds – so that with the Helper’s help the eyes of our understanding will begin to open – and we will see and understand things that we would not otherwise see nor understand.
In our Lord Jesus’ Name
Thank You Heavenly Father.
Amen
Still Thinking of Michelle
I wrote to the valedictorian [her name isn’t Michelle] a long time ago that “I only want what I can’t have.” So, I don’t know if the reason I haven’t heard from her [the valedictorian] since then is because she wants me to keep on wanting her for ever and ever – by not letting me hear another word from her. I don’t know.
And now, with Michelle, the same thing seems to be happening again.
Maybe there’s something spiritual about loving someone “from a distance” – without any contact – without even a kiss – maybe without even seeing them – and without hearing from them – just as our relationship with our Lord Jesus is spiritual – we don’t see Him in person.
I still love you, Michelle.
And, maybe, if I saw you again –
And heard your voice again –
And our eyes met . . .
Maybe I would only love you more, Michelle.
Maybe I’m outliving that saying about “only wanting what I can’t have.”
I really don’t know.
Maybe love will always be mysterious.
And maybe loving Michelle will always be a mystery.
And, maybe, if we ever kiss . . .
The Mystery of Loving Michelle
Will only grow more and more deeply mysterious.
Maybe the only thing to understand about loving someone is what holy Scriptures says about Love.
“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
“Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophecy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
“So now faith, hope and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” -1 Corinthians 13: 4-13 ESV Study Bible.
The Crystals Then He Kissed Me Sing Along Lyrics
The Crystals Then He Kissed Me Sing Along Lyrics
Then He Kissed Me THE CRYSTALS (with lyrics)
Then He Kissed Me THE CRYSTALS (with lyrics)
Dear Michelle, I want you to understand something mysterious about me. It’s something spiritual. Maybe the best way to help you understand this something mysterious is by telling you in words – just as Jesus said, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” -John 6: 63-64a. ESV.
John 6 ESV
John 6 ESV – Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand – After – Bible Gateway
If we ever meet again, Michelle – and if we speak – and if we should ever kiss . . .
It may seem so ordinary to us . . .
But the spiritual and mysterious thing is that –
Well, it’s like a seed that is planted in the soil. . .
The wonder of it all happens slowly.
It takes time for that little seed to begin to break open and the little sprout to begin to peak out and rise above the surface and see the light of day.
Maybe, Michelle, our love will be just like that . . .
It May only happen gradually . . .
It May take Time to get to Eternity . . .
It May take Time for Love to Become Reality.
1 John 4 ESV
1 John 4 ESV – Test the Spirits – Beloved, do not – Bible Gateway
God is Love
And we are His children
And we need Time to grow up in Him
And for Him in us to come to the fulness
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“Christ in you, the hope of glory” – as Scripture says. -Colossians 1: 27 ESV Study Bible.
Love and Eternal Life are growing things . . .
Colossians 1-4
Colossians 1-4 ESV – Greeting – Paul, an apostle of Christ – Bible Gateway
God Will Make a Way (with lyrics) – Don Moen
God Will Make a Way (with lyrics) – Don Moen
Bee Gees – First Of May (Lyrics)
Bee Gees – First Of May (Lyrics)
Michelle’s name has 8 letters.
Tomorrow will be the 8th of May – the 128th day of the year.
Michelle inspires my thoughts.
Thoughts has 8 letters.
Inspires has 8 letters.
I don’t know much else about Michelle . . .
Don´t know much about history
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