THIS LITTLE BOY

Your Scribe at age 2yrs and 8 months outside Mark Foy's Department Store in wartime Sydney - preparing to meet Santa Claus for the First Time!

Y

In that wartime December, I had no thoughts about the last day of my 79th Year! Nor probably much thought about "the war" everyone kept referring to. NO! Only thoughts about Santa Claus! The important stuff - right?

Time has been "on the jog" and this little boy has lived through World War !!, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the dropping of numerous Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs,the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Pontificates of Ven. Pope PiusXII, of Pope Saint John XXIII, of Pope Saint Paul VI. of Pope John Paul I, of Pope Saint John Paul II of glorious memory, of Pope Benedict XVI, and he has lived throughout Global Financial Crisis and several disastrous Labor Governments.

All of that only to come to this: a world crisis that has brought economic collapse to the world within days.An epidemic that's causing a large number of deaths. And a threat to the free world more sophisticated than that of the Nazis or the Japanese in World War II.

That little boy would NOT have thought it possible. Nor did he think it possible in his teenage years,  his twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties or most of his seventies. 

You see, he is still here inside this all -but eighty "tent" as Saint Paul called our bodies. He looks out in shock and horror at what has been done to our beautiful world of activity in such a short time. There is even a South American wandering around wreaking havoc with his demented ideas.

                Nurse Bignell's Hospital where I was born at about 5.00pm on Tuesday, 9th April 1940- a  warm 21  Degrees, windy but Sunny!

.

I know that his gratitude to his late Grandparents, and his late Parents, to his dear Wife and wonderful Children and Grandchildren, and those who love him is unbounded! The love and appreciation of his friends living and dead, in direct contact and in electronic contact is one of the greatest consolations to his heart and mind and spirit. And he reserves a special place in his heart and mind and spirit for those Priests living and dead who have been such blessed helps and comforts to him.

Better times ahead! The tent "will carry the little boy into his 80th Year about 

5.00 pm tomorrow the 9th April 2020 - God Willing.

"It is all in God's Hands" Gen Robert E.Lee CSA.