Momentous Memento
I helped to clean out gardens yesterday...
(photos shared by permission)
While we collected flower seeds...
...picked her pears (how she loved these beauties!!)
...sailed through the air on swings
While they (her grandchildren) pulled my hands, eager to live, laugh and loveWhile they called "come and see'
...while my heart almost collapsed within me
I suddenly sensed in the tear-drenched dirt of hurt,the innocent planting of seeds of Hope and Joy
Dear Lucy...
there are moments, grief numbs the part that ought to smart and stingthen, like a wave it comes; the heart wails like a wounded Thingand there are times despair could haunt love's solemn sacrificeand almost I am tempted to want love without its price
and, there are moments I feel stripped of all I once knew wellthen without warning I am gripped with the sense of a Bellstill tolling, 'neath a Hand bestowing midst bereavement, blissof life still overflowing with Hand to Hold, Cheek to Kiss
then, although there are moments when grief deals a crushing blowand longing reels as echoes peal from scenes I/we cherish/ed sothen, even when it feels like grief grants love's mean reckoning I sense the turning of a leaf, tearstained, but beckoning
there are moments I could not bear, but what love cannot losethough every dream and wish and prayer has lost its dancing shoesthere are moments that steal my breath; joy and grief intertwinedin memories that feel like death left much of you behind
Janet 💔💞
there are moments that steal my breath; joy and grief intertwinedin memories that feel like death left much of you behind
Psalm 145: 13-14&17-20The Lord is trustworthy in all he promises
and faithful in all he does.[]
14 The Lord upholds all who fall
and lifts up all who are bowed down....
...The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and faithful in all he does.
18 The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
19 He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;
he hears their cry and saves them.
20 The Lord watches over all who love him,...