It's Been a Year...
Today marks a year of trusting God's purposein taking Lucy from this earth...Thank-you everyone, for your caring and support throughout this year! God bless you all!
Deut.29:29 (The verse that Lucy's funeral message was drawn from)“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Dear Lucy...(Beloved Daughter, sister, wife, sister-in-law,daughter-in-law, mother, mother-in-law, aunt and Grammy and beloved friend, missed by many)
It's been a year of succumbing to gripsWith 'what is', again and againOf trusting in God when His Sovereignty stripsSure answers from every 'amen'
It's been a year of meek joy, sorrow-awedBy loss that has left a huge holeWhile finding firsthand, the faithfulness of GodWhose rod and staff comforts the soul
It's been a year of considering oftThis life and what fashions its worthBefore The Intangible is borne aloftAnd body returns to the earth
...before the measure of Lifetime is weighedIn a Balance, sacred and justBefore Truth reveals where treasure is laidBefore Soul-to-God, dust-to-dust
It's been a year of relinquishing 'why?'To God's higher purpose and willUntil hymns come true, e,
It's been a year where we felt the full forceOf Hope's/Faith's utter un-commonplace Of drinking in moments, more tuned to the SourceLike nectar from fountains of grace
...of four-word love-letters like 'thaw, heat and serve''How are you doing', 'I'm praying for you'While weathering many-a-sharp learning curve While suffering love's decreed due
...while we stuffed our faces into peoniesWhile we gathered to reminisce While we laughed and wept, and made new memoriesHonored with , 'Lucy would have loved this!'
It's been a year of hope's anchor reviewed Of love abounding more and moreWhy does it take loss to renew gratitude For each other, like never before?
It's been a year of hug-warm tender careOf heartaches no poem can spell Of kindness on kindness, of prayer upon prayerOf tears for the flower that fell
Of feeling a keen sense of urgencyFor all still like sheep, wandering Ignoring impending eternityAs if it were not a sure thing It's been a year of learning to let goWhile holding the part left behindOf frames filled with pictures and echoes that flowThrough sorrow and joy intertwined
It's been a year of oft coming to termsWith what we can never undo While leaning on the everlasting armsOf God, who is faithful and true
It's been a year of learning to revereA law we should never dismissOf, 'If the Lord wills we shall live and go hereOr there, and do that or this'
Janet Martin
James 4:13-15Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
Deut.33:27The eternal God is your refuge,
And underneath are the everlasting arms;