A facebook chat that happened this a.m.:
Jargine
Hi MaryEttta it's Jargine
12:34pmMe
Hi, there. How are you?
12:34pmJargine
I am well thanks. It was really good to find you after so many years
12:35pmMe
It was indeed!
So glad you happened to notice on Heather's [Heather Duke Slattery] list.
12:35pmJargine
I always have an image in my mind of us all young at your house for seminary - those were good and happy days
12:36pmMe
Those were good times.
So long ago and look at us now!
12:36pmJargine
can't believe we are all much older and dare I say wiser now!!!
12:36pmMe
yes there is greater wisdom.
i need to tell you something of a memory.
12:37pmJargine
of those times?
12:37pmMe
yes
12:38pmJargine
is it a happy one?
12:38pmMe
Me
yes. every time i read the new testament at a certain passage i think of you and a talk that you gave
12:38pmJargine
I can't remember can you tell me what it was
12:39pmMe
since reconnecting with you i haven't had a moment to browse for the scripture, but it was a talk you gave using a word that was unfamiliar to me at the time and not commonly used in my vernacular, but it seemed to be a word that you in your teen years understood very well.
now i'll just have to leave it at that until i find the word. but i share that with you to let you know that you have not been far from my memory and that i learned something from you that has lingered with me all these years.
12:45pmJargine
Hope that you can remind me of this as I am intrigued. You have reminded me of something right now - I had a friend who was very close to me in Glenrothes where I live and she died in 1998 of lung cancer. Her name was Eileen and she was just like an older sister to me. I was able to be with her in her last few months and sometimes I used to say things that she said were very relevant to her life - the spirit was very strong then and I seemed to be very close to the Lord as I strived to help her. I loved her very much and still miss her.
12:46pmJargine
not sure why I am telling you this right now
12:47pmMe
the Spirit of the Lord is what I also remember manifesting the truth of what you were saying. Sunday i really will have to spend some time going through the New Testament and perhaps perusing the scriptures i used in those years.
12:49pmJargine
I have been a bit down recently due to having such difficulties in my family since my mum died in September but I have been reading every day again from the Book of Mormon and finding strength from doing this. Maybe I was meant to talk to you right now...........
12:52pmMe
David continued to encourage reading from the scriptures daily and I fine myself doing the same thing. Each morning I awaken with a fresh mind thinking of my love for the Lord and Our Father and almost always I sense what is important for that day. It has helped me to move step by step through difficulties and unfamiliar territory since David died.
12:53pmMe
When I arise I enjoy listening to or playing a hymn on the piano, reading from the scriptures and then my kneeling prayer. When I don't do this I know the difference and feel the lack of it.
Since the fall I've been reading the Book of Mormon from a different point of view than what has been typical for me.
12:54pmMe
I've been reading and noting in the upper margin all things Jesus Christ. In doing so I've felt that I've come to know Him better and to understand better what I need to change in my life.
It has been life changing.
One more thing. I'd like you to know that typically when the children would be playing a game that they would call themselves by another name, Chrissie would call herself Jargine.
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I can't believe the ongoing and expanding connections with extended family and friends that have evolved from January onwards.
As I wrote our cousin Elizabeth in Dalkeith, Scotland if I don't process all that opens up each day
I'll drown.
Its exciting and rewarding to really, really know that it is people that count most in our lives.
What a gathering it is.
I didn't intend to look for friends from our Scotland days until I needed to verify Nellie Martin, the dear lady that had known my grandfather--the only such person I ever met. Nellie's photo in her younger days with my grandparents turned up on Hunter Family from one of our Hunter cousins.
I'm so glad I wrote the Hunter history back in 1987. Its incomplete now with what we know but, it documents what I knew then that I don't remember now. I consult it most days that I do Hunter research.
I regret I don't have the digital copy. If anyone wants to start retyping the text so it can be updated and edited for others, please do.
Anyone need a project?
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