Ella 1: don't leave me this way

"She just never got to it," that's what everybody said at her funeral.

"What about skydiving?"

"She just never got to it. Did you ever think she was."

"What about singing, she was a great singer?"

"She just never got to it."

"What about travel, did she ever make it out to see you?"

"No, I guess she was waiting for the perfect time and 'she just never got to it.'"

You could hear conversations like that echoing all over the graveyard. Ella was a big talker. But she lived a small life, very small. As it turns out, she actually did very little outside of work and home and reading those magazines and books that gave her plenty of ideas but very little "guts to go do." Her husband always said to her, "that's what's wrong with you Ella. You got dreams, but no guts to go do." Of course, he always ended it with a "and shut up talking to me 'till you go do something interesting. It seems she finally did do something interesting, she up and died by a freak curbing accident in a quiet neighborhood, but that's another story. Suffice it to say, now he wanted to talk to her about the one dream that she actually got up the nerve to do...

(c) Jamillah Warner, www.gospelnerve.com, I got the nerve to say . . .