Return to Cedar Hill by Jacie Middlemann

Author:Jacie Middlemann
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-06-06T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Mary parked her car in one of the small parking areas that could be found along the many winding gravel roads. Anyone considering parking right alongside the old cinder blocks lining the narrow roads would quickly find out the hazard of doing so. So narrow were these roads, if they could be referred to as such, that no one could get past the other unless you were walking. If two cars were to meet coming from opposite directions, one would have to back up until one of the pull-off areas designed specifically for parking were reached to allow the other to go by.

Mary had often thought that it was quaint. As she'd gotten older, she realized with the knowledge of history an adult picked up along the way, contrary to the black and white world of a child that the roads had been designed and constructed in a time when a single horse or a horse drawn buggy were the only transportation of the day. Walking had probably been the intended traffic for what could have easily been considered pathways rather than the roads for automobile traffic they were now used for.

Time hadn't stood still though. Not as it did for those here. Only visitors to this sacred ground found the means of getting around an inconvenience. And, Mary thought, they'd get over it soon enough. If you were here as she was, there were other more pressing thoughts to contend with.

She had several intended destinations in mind as she got out of the car. But now here, amidst the quiet and surrounded by the massive towering trees that provided all the shelter anyone needed from the sun, she had only one. She carefully made her way along gravel and dirt pathways where they existed and even more carefully past aging stones where they didn't.

The family owned several plots. But when the time had come only one came to mind, only one had been right. As she reached her destination she stood still for a moment and simply looked out at all that surrounded her. At the top of this small hill so many of the oldest stones belonged to her, belonged to who she came from. She walked to the one she sought. Standing there, looking down, she could swear she felt the slightest touch. The wind…she let herself think...believe, and brushed her hair back with her fingers. It had to be the wind. But there was a place in her that knew better. That believed stronger.

"I miss you Mama," she said softly, sighed on a breath that wobbled unashamedly. "I've tried to keep my word to you." She sat carefully just on the edge of the place where her mother rested. Ran her fingers along the marble that glinted in the rays of the sun that lightly filtered through the trees her mother had always loved so much and now surrounded her for all of time. "Beloved Daughter, Sister, Wife, Mother. Beloved For All Time." So much to so many.

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