a prayer is a difficult thing

let us grow old together
you and I
as winter comes to me
for you a summer's eve

no longer remembering
both of us, we may look
and just forget until He
who holds the fullness
remembers both and gives
new life

you remember me
and I you, as you
were meant to be

(I believe in the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come)

Just playin' around with words for a moment.

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I'll be about 75 when SJ is 40. God willing.

I've been asked to write a prayer for parents facing difficult prenatal diagnosis.  It is a difficult thing.  It is difficult to write such a prayer;  it is difficult to hear such news;  it is difficult to pray at such a time.

When the prayer is written, I'll post it.

Matthew 6.26:

Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Comments

[Tim]

Thinking of you, my friend...

T.

[steve the z]

I don't know who represents innocence to me more, The little bird or Sarah.

[joseph]

"pray without ceasing"