Virginia Anderson

By the Wings of the Morning Virginia Anderson

In 1962, Family and friends were incredulous when Roy and Ginny confided they were selling their belongings, cashing in savings, and leaving Roy's satisfying position to travel to an obscure island on the opposite side of the world. Why would they take their children, ages 4, 8, and 9 into the unknown for a full year? Their only explanation was they knew this was right for them, following their intuition to find more meaning in life, and to be a veritable family for a year. Sailing third class on the original Queen Elizabeth, they launched out into the unknown, arriving at Mah six weeks later with no connections in the Seychelles. Their stay in this seldom-visited island, five by seventeen miles, was a microcosm of a whole lifetime. Close ties and friendships were formed with natives, as well as wealthy landowners, and a countess and earl, Governor of the Seychelles. Pivotal, were the Anglican Archdeacon, the Reverend Kingsley Walker and his family. Ginny and Roy were exposed to a full gamut of experiences including the thrill of unparallel tropical splendor, adventure, inner turmoil, temptation, brushes with death, separation, reconciliation, and above all spiritual realization. The brief epilogue, written forty years later, hints at the fruitful, lasting results.