Today, one of my greatest heros has gone home. My spiritual mother, Rev Rosalina Colon...has passed. I am saddened for her family...her children, her grand children and her great grand children. I can feel the weight of their heavy loss from miles away. Yet at the same time I am as a proud man that has watched someone he loves run a triathlon and finally make it to the finish line to receive that long awaited trophy in the long awaited place, in the long awaited Arms of our Lord. A trophy, a place and a Lord that we would speak about for hours without end under a cloud of joy that human words fail to aptly describe. So for me, my tears are a weighted mix of thick sorrow along side an unspeakable pride. Without this unassuming power house of a woman, there would be no me as I am and it is an acknowledgment that I make without lip service. The day she and her family moved into the apartment directly above mine, I had no idea my life would change as much as it did. She was the first to see a potential in me that I have not yet realized but have seen steadily manifest as time progresses. What she saw in me will stay with me forever as a testament to who and what I really am. She did this for many souls. I witnessed many souls that came and went to sit under her to learn what the power of God was really about. Souls that today could never deny the existence of God no matter what their state in life. Souls that I know have influenced greats. You see we all learn the "letter of the Word" but the truth is that it is the "Spirit of the Word" that cements it's life and that was her essence that stayed with us. I came to understand "relationship" as opposed to religion. A daily walk as opposed to the once a week meal at service. A talk as opposed to just prayer. I knew about these things but I never opened up to them until her. My love for this woman has no words as she is truly one of my greatest heros...and this will always remain true.
So today, I ask for no condolences for me but for her family. I ask for no words of comfort as my comfort comes in knowing that she is finally with her Lord. Pray for her family, pray that what was deposited in them double in strength as it must. So may God bless Sinai, Nain, Abdias, Jorge and their children. I know they will make it through and not just that...they will be everything their mother saw they would become. So with pride I call her mother, mentor, teacher and friend. Again, it will always be so...
Each of us has a message to our life and hers was profoundly simple: Some will see the flash of greatness and ride the tsunami. They will be seen and heard as great but before them came the unseen. These are the very first to throw that pebble in the pond that eventually becomes that Tsunami. The ones that step out in faith to receive no praise or recognition. They are the ones that started it all by simply trusting in the Power behind the pebble...these are the greatest champions of them all. This was my spiritual mother...The Rev Rosalina Colon
~Moses
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