I saw and read an article about Dearborn yesterday. As I read it, I sobbed! I couldn’t really understand why I was sobbing and it took me a minute to realize why. I think I need to tell this story before I tell you about the that made me cry!:
I worked at dfcu for my sophomore year of college. There were four other part-time towers who were college students at U of M Dearborn as well!
Three of us worked at the Livonia branch (I had classes with Catherine and Joannabut Craig was in a different college but sometimes we would see him at the CASL building). On Saturdays, other part-time tellers would come to Livonia to work because it was open on Saturdays.
Another teller, her name is Laura, she went to U of M-Dearborn as well. She actually lived in Dearborn too. We would talk on our lunch breaks and toward the spring, she told me that she was going on the hajj.
I was surprised! She was older than me, but she was only about 22 or 23. My neighbor two doors down was my friend and she was muslim. I loved her mom‘s cooking!She talked to me about the hajj and all the rituals in the meanings big deal this was! I wished Laura luck and I was happy for her! But then we didn’t see each other for a while.
I was leaving the bathroom stall at dfcu at work and I’m met Laura at the sink to wash our hands! Of course, I asked her about the pilgrimage she looked so elated! She told me it was wonderful and I asked her about the seven times around the Kaaba.
This is the reason why I was crying and this is why I am still crying as I am trying to write this and why I cried when I told Sean about it! She told me that she felt like she was flying!
I read yesterday that the mayor of Dearborn was in Saudi Arabia on personal time to complete the hajj!:
As I was reading this article, I thought of Laura flying and I started to cry. Actually, I sobbed! I’m not Muslim, but I grew up in East Dearborn so I was around a lot of muslim people. Tomorrow will mark the end of the Easter season at Pentecost and I am 43 and this is the first time that I have felt this close to God!! it’s kind of amazing and I think that’s another reason that I sobbed!