Article March 2, 1998 Issue

Widows wanted

There's an art to flying solo.

By Beulah M. Roegge

When my husband passed on, I was surrounded by people who practiced love toward others in the spirit that this verse from the Bible describes: "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world" (James 1:27).

These good people visited when it was timely and, I felt, kept all of us "unspotted from the world" by refusing to feel sorry for me. I was also comforted by this assurance in the book of Isaiah: "Thy Maker is thine husband" (54:5).

My friends' kindness and support allowed me to feel a conviction that God was, in the highest sense, my husband, and that the wonderful qualities my spouse had expressed were still present. Since one can never be separated from God, I realized that there is no state of existence that can truly be classified as widowhood. I will always be grateful for the sensitivity and intuition with which my needs were met at that time.

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