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| Peace River at Bowling Green, Florida |
What popular song typifies your teenage years? What memory does your favorite song bring to mind? (Serendipity Bible 10th Anniversary Edition, page 1305).
The
memory is very clear and distinct. I was in the cafeteria at the
University of South Florida in the early 1960s. There was a jukebox
there and it was playing Moon River with Perry Como. It is sweet to
recall my mood at the time. It was a time of looking back over the
sustaining years now fast receding of living with my parents in Bowling Green, Florida and with Peace River flowing quietly
nearby. This dark, ancient meandering river was an anchor for me as I
grew up through the teen years. But now as a young man at the
University of South Florida there was a sense of uncertainty about
the days ahead. There was a touch of foreboding combined with a sweet
anticipation. I knew as with all human beings there would be
challenges and pain lying in wait ahead. Yet I felt chosen by God for
some task not yet fully known. Perhaps when I heard Moon River that day
there was a fond wish to dreamily escape it all; to transcend the
past, present, and future and exquisitely dart away as a bright yellow
butterfly hovering eternally in the sun along the banks of Peace
River.
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