Beleaguered with requests for photos, and having made promises to one or two people to blog on her - ie, Nick Holley and Jay Lauser , here is my promise fulfilled. I started on her birthday - November 10th, 2010, at 8:15pm. :P I finish today, the 22cd, at 1:00pm Smiling a little, I leaned down, tucking the quilt around my mother and kissing her cheek goodnight. Even as I silently moved across the room to tug off the lightswitch, she was still talking; drowsy, mumbling her words, but still talking. I've not seen Mom so verbal in ages. Although she was lacking 36 hours sleep, as soon as she had eaten her day-old homemade, reheated soup and drunk a cup of steaming, fragrant coffee, she sat there for ten minutes describing in vivid detail the birth of her latest grandchild - her first granddaughter. More amazing for me, I was sitting there with an inane grin spread over my face, highly excited over the recital, instead of landing in a heap on the floor! (I am useless with blood and gut
Up and down we go, suddenly exposed...How long could this go? We dare not think ahead...We first find out this love, so deep from up above, then we forsake it for the turkish sin, to hurt at the time to step out and not begin...but then just like we knew we would, we feel the pity of our shame, once over again, wanting something but not the "Consequential" pain... This must be a sign of searching for an excape, we think that we are christian yet we look for purpose in the wrong places...It's the battle against love that takes us for a spin, first we think we've found it then we dump it in a whim... It all comes down to Love for that is where it all began, satan knows what is ours by the blood of the the risen lamb...it's ours for our accepting, but deep,deep down inside we are too scared with our failures, or our battered human pride...So how can we live it when we haven't changed inside, no we know God desires hollines but we don't feel the power to reside...We can confess Him over and over, we can sin and turn back again, but in truth it all comes down to healing and a belief in love that never ends...How can God punish if we 'never' loved Him true? and how can we love if our wounds arn't healed over in the light of his holy truth? The Truth of Love...back and forth, to and fro how can this be possible for someone who knows? No, True Love never ends...we are unfaithful but still it comes back to Love...We can realize His love in a moment, or perhaps trust it for a day, but we must "sew it to our souls" so the knowledge of it can't ever slip away...then we will not turn for it wil be stitched into our souls: the words "I do truly Love you, and I'm never letting go". - Lindi Childs/ Purpose Proposed
ReplyDeleteO Love that wilt not let me go,
ReplyDeleteI rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
That in thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.....
- O Love that I should believe,
I ask to wash me through;
I cannot give you what I do not know;
for only 'true love' comes from You
Come teach me love, show me love
so in your hands I'll stay;
for you know I cannot remain without it,
and I'm lost without Thee today
So I shall not pity of what I fear may be,
for I know I dwell upon it cause "real love" I cannot see; so teach me to carry on, and be brave always ahead, and teach me to be joyful not matter what, or where I tread
O Love that will not let me go,
I trust my unfaithful way to Thee:
that in thy comfort I may grow,
and find the 'me' you've designed to be