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Show about what tomorrow would be-and what he might do to improve his little world for the better. He wondered about how someone could help his brother get well-and when Joseph died while John K was still under eight, he wondered about death. His first experience in sorrow for a loved one made a lasting impression upon him. He tried to comprehend the meaning of it all-the end of a life on earth and where it went then. He thought he understood some things his mother had read to her children about a life after this one, but when death brushed so close he was bewildered and knew tha,t there was much he did not know. He always enjoyed the times his mother read aloud from the Bible and the Book of Mormon--while her long tapered fingers rambled through the hair of her youngest, or caressed the brow or cheek of the nearest child. Sometimes she told about her long walk to Utah. God had always been very real to his mother, and he tried to picture in his mind just how God had watched over her as she came to a strange land to live among strange people. John K even tried to imagine what God looked like and how he could see so many people at a time, or hear their prayers. He would watch his mother's face as she read, while he tried to fathom the lights and shadows lying deep within her blue eyes. There was such sweetness about her- even when she was anxious about something, or scolded. 32 |
