Meditation on my naked sisters

Thursday 25 September 2008

This evening during the gale Jessy and I both lit fires in our rooms, just small ones to take the chill off. This does not really settle the nerves because the wind howls in the chimney pipe and makes the fire do weird starts and stops. Jessy, naked as usual, lay on the hearthrug of her room and draped a blanket over her backside and seemed very comfortable reading in Elizabeth George.

After her bath little Lisa came out in a towel, padded round to her room, and before she had got dressed she discovered Jessy in this position reading. She went in to say goodnight to her, ended up sneaking under the blanket, and when Mother went in to collect her Lisa was curled up, half on top of Jessy's bare back, half asleep. Mother giggled, and I heard Jessy say 'Shhh!' as she went on reading.

I got up and went in and saw that, but before I could grab a camera Mother was detaching little Lisa from her beloved big sister and carrying her in to her room for bed.

I am grateful to both my sisters for showing us all the example of sweet love. They are ten years apart in age, but their birthdays are within two weeks and in many ways they are kindred souls. I know many people online, reading this, will think it's somehow naughty, or even sexy, that two nice young girls will snuggle up naked under the same blanket. But even as they are looking sexy to people with naughty minds, they are also showing their very real innocence. They do not know what naughty-minded people would think. They have not a naughty thought in either of their minds. To Lisa any part of Jessy's body represents her bigger sister. To Jessy, how could any part of Lisa be anything else but a part of her sweet little sister who follows her everywhere? This isn't something sexy or naughty but something very pure and sweet, and I know that God smiles down upon these two very good girls in every single thing they do.

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