The Person that We Are...

I can almost here our bare feet splashing through the dust, dashing from beyond the tree-line in the photo below,  to the top of this hill to get a closer count of the freight train cars, then ambling back the way we came, arguing about how many there were...Those children and that railway are long gone.(back then this road was silky dust in the sun and slippery mud in the rain before it became a graveled and busier through-way for farmers.)

Was it not farther than this?! 

I feel like a stranger standing on the echoes of Then. It seemed like a world away when mother's permission allowed us to 'walk to the little tree or the creek,(it still sleeps in that dip) for the best peanut-butter and soda-cracker picnics known to little girls:)

We come from where we’ve been

And whether near or far

Life shapes through what we’ve done and seen

The person that we are

The person that we are

Is ever subject to

The highs and lows that jive and spar

To shape our points of view

To shape our point-of-views

We draw from difference

For I have never worn your shoes

Or your experience

For your experience

And mine, the done-and-seen

Patterns pursuit and consequence

We come from where we’ve been

We come from where we’ve been

And where we’ve been thus far

Creates from life’s gray-gold-blue-green

The person that we are

© Janet Martin

…but no matter where we’ve been, we began in the hands of our Creator and we will end in the hand of our Creator. 

This little ‘in-between’ shaping the person that we are, is never very far from Him. 

God’s love for all of us is our common birthmark, for from Him, through Him and for Him are all things.To him be the glory forever! Amen.
Rom.11:36

What you see of me is the shape of my skin

God and me see the person within

No matter what happens, He is never far

From the becoming of who we are