Friday, Aug. 01, 2003 - 9:30 P.M.
To Jane & Shud 
*Goodie Box will be in the mail Friday afternoon on it's way to you--included is Montgomery Inn Barbeque Sauce, Cincinnati Chili Mix, Cincinnati Video, a few million buck$ and MORE )
We could wish for you a million dollar lottery win but that would not be enough.
We could wish for you an endless summer but even that would not be enough.
Friends for a lifetime, it seems like yesterday when we were all younger and could not get enough of anything.
We did not have enough but could make something out of nothing and make it be enough to be everything.
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Janice Anne wrote this memory especially for you:
Several years ago, I was at the Cincinnati Airport, an airport in Kentucky but it is known as Cincinnati Airport . ( This was before enhanced security and you could actually walk with the flyer to the plane entrance and even stay and press your face against the glass and watch their plane take off or walk to wait for the passengers to get off the plane and "greet" them. )
In reality, it was a chance to take a moment to let the tears dry and compose yourself before the long walk back to the parking lot and the 45 minute drive home.
But this time I was there to pick up a passenger, Rebecca from Chicago; Rebecca was coming to Cincinnati to meet her family of origin.
I had a little gold foil wrapped gift for her and hoped to make a witty statement wishing her the stars and moon and all in between on this visit that she was so anticipating for so long.
I settled in on a comfortable leather bench, reading a USA Today and sipping a Starbucks which I indulged in only on those occasions that could justify spending five bucks for a cup of coffee. I had an hour to wait because the flight from Chicago was delayed.
So I did what I had learned to do at an early age : people -watch & listen to other-people's conversations, a genetic trait on my mother's side of the family, but you must know that, knowing her!
I saw 2 Q-tips ( white hair & white shoes) = elderly couple and a middle aged man. They had announced the couple's departure. I had caught enough from the conversation to know that the couple was flying, son lived here in Cincinnati and this was the end to a week long visit. The three stood near the boarding sign, I heard their goodbyes and the phrase " I wish you enough."
Enough?
Who wants enough?
Doesn't everybody want MORE?
I had to look up and do a little lip reading to be sure those were the words I heard them say again and again. Yes, enough was the word they were saying.
The Q-tips went through the door toward the plane.
Middle Aged Son walked over toward the "crying" window.
Standing there I could see he was choking back a tear.
I got up, walked to the window and looked out,
pretending to have a reason to be standing there,
when he spoke to me asking, "Did you ever say goodbye to someone knowing it could be forever?"
"Yes, I have" I replied.
And in saying that I remembered several goodbyes that made me hate to say goodbye; I'd come to prefer to just pretend like it was not a goodbye but a see-you-later situation.
I did not say goodbye to my husband as we parted in the hospital to have my kidney transplanted into him.
It was too painful, not the operation, the thought of saying "goodbye". I winced as each person along the way to the Operating Room had wished me "luck" ,and wanted to say: For Petes Sake, this is a hospital, not a casino! Anyway, back to my story:
I got up the nerve to ask him:
"When you were saying goodbye I heard you all say to each other, "I wish you enough." May I ask what that means? Is it a family thing or secret code?"
He nodded as he began to explain to me : "That is something that my Uncle Arthur heard at a motivation seminar for his sales business and he used to say it to everyone."
Seeing I was an interested listener, he continued. "When he said ' I wish you enough,' he was wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them," he looked up as if to recite a well memorized verse and then he said it to me :
"I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the even the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you own.
I wish enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Goodbye."
He smiled and walked away before I could say anything to him.
I saw the flight from Chicago would be arriving, a young woman with the hopes of a lifetime would be getting off that plane. I knew what I would say to her upon meeting her: But first I called it out to my new friend: Thank you,
I wish you enough too!
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And
On this Anniversary Day of Yours, We Wish You Enough.
Jack & Edie Llewellyn
2003
"So don't worry about having enough food or drink or clothing. Your
heavenly Father already knows all your needs, and He will give you all you
need from day to day if you live for Him and make the Kingdom of God your
primary concern" Matthew 6:31-33
