Dear Lucy, I'm Learning Things I Thought I Knew...

Lucy and I loved this song I'm sending it out to her family, and mine, from both of us.I remember her telling me she wants to share this song with her childrentill it drives them crazy 😅...and I said, 'me too!' We chose to interpret this song as God singing to His children One of the blogs I subscribe to is Barnstorming, clickafter Lucy suggested to me a number of years ago 'that she thinks I would love it'. And I do!OH, one of things that has left a gargantuan hole in my life are our sister-soulmate loves and being able to share them with each other. How I miss the unexpected surprises of 'you would love this, Janet!and visa-versa. How often I still whisper' you would love this, Lucy' though I know she is in a place of unimaginable wonder and beauty in the presence of our Beloved Savior-King forever! On today's post, about grief, the author, , shares some words of timeless wisdom;'We don’t have control over the amount of time, but we do have control over how extensively our love for others is heard and spread.'~ And those words inspired today's poem... Dear LucyI'm learning things I thought I knew before the sudden loss of youBefore I understood how tears can mark days turned to months then yearsAfter what I now realize I thought I did, but didn't, prizeOf time I thought we had until you donned wings to where Time stands still  I thought that you and I would weather the 'joys' of growing old togetherWhere I would blaze a trail and find you following, not far behindAnd in its grin-groan-grunting art we'd keep each other young at heartI never thought I'd turn to see only frames, where you used to be I'm learning, as I vainly rue the things no wishing can undoTo take each opportunity that comes without time's guarantee To wear love's second-mile-grade shoes as if I had no time to loseAnd not to be unduly vexed, but love/live as if I could be next I'm learning to revere love's role as I advance toward the goal(where none of use can see how far from its eternity we are)But all of us should take to heart the privilege to do our partTo consider our fellowman and love each other while we can I'm learning to fully embrace the gift of looking, face-to-faceOf cherishing both high and low of holding on and letting goAnd never minding quite so much the humour of Father Time's touchAs I learn what I thought I knew, dear Lucy, before missing you Janet💔 Years ago, the chorus to the song below was a prayerLucy and I shared...to live till our children are grown, if God wills!God willed her/our prayer to be answered. And this, straight from the Word of God...Jer.31:3“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.