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I seem to be a bit reminiscent and yet cautious enough to not get swept up in something that for me is only as real as life is today. The changes that have occurred in our home since the early part of the year have brought us to a new normal that frankly is filling us both greatly with an appreciation for life that is now what we know. We were fortunate that the weather or the blessing of the creator of all things, placed before us the opportunity for George to be here for us during our move. We were feeling settled in our home before George was called away for a meeting which gave him an opportunity to be back in Wisconsin to see both the families before driving his car out to Colorado. After a brief work week out he was hime again for a bit before he was to prepare for another away that afforded us an opportunity for him to go back to Wisconsin on his way to Michigan. This life has started to suit us.  I remember back to a time when I was dreading even stopping at the grocery ...
There is such a bigger life outside all that I presume to know... trial by fire... service of deed to show faithfulness... death because of demand... while all that goes on around may seem what is often misunderstood... one should never presume to understand without walking in those shoes... we pray why do innocent suffer... and yet those who grieve do so because of loss... others grieve because of the most awful nature of the act... yet there is a willingness to die on either side... because of faith in the program itself... we can pretend and just hope we are not annihilated... may God grant us each the courage for the coming day...
I believe that... those who leave us are blessed until our time is realized, in a life with those who have brought joy to our lives lived... and those who have touched our lives in a way that can only be expressed by life lived... I would never presume that all of what I am you would have ever understood... but the days of life that I have lived have been filled with great joy... by either some word or deed that you shared at a present moment or perhaps a moment alone... but I realize the impact your touch had upon my existence... I pray that the examples that you laid out before and that which you presented as your life offered... I see what and all that you needed me to see... thank you those that I call family and those who as family only distant you became... may the days of what you know to be blessed refine your heart to love what should have been loved when once your chance would be...