Ready For Then

In the past month and a bit, Death has reminded me of its nearness like never before!
My neighbor's elderly dad sits in his easy-chair waiting for her to come and pick him up to go out for groceries.
Instead Death comes and whisks him away...

My husband's co-worker's son dies (age 38) in the middle of a conversation; brain aneurysm

My sister-in-law's mother; (age 74)cancer returns and death visits four weeks after diagnosis.

My cousin's wife, a mother and new gramma (mid-forties) drowns.

I return home from her funeral yesterday, walk into the house, my daughter hands me the phone and my neighbor-friend tells me her friend just passed away (age 30-ish) due to complications from pneumonia...

On Fri. night my parent's friend, a seemingly healthy 74 year old man who just returned home from a wedding (he was the minister who performed the marriage ceremony) dies suddenly from a massive stroke.

How much we should treasure moments with loved ones.

 Take a lesson from the birds maybe?

Moments don’t sleep

They turn to days and weeks

Months into years

…and then, comes Death

In one half-breath

A lifetime disappears

Ah, talk is cheap

No one can keep

The hand of time at bay

And none knows when

Death’s final Then

Will seal life’s breath away

This little lot

Of lilting jot

Before forevermore

Is like a hill

Of days until

Death bares An Awesome Door

Moments don’t sleep

No one can keep

Death from this breath of sod

This is the day

The Lord has made

To ready us for God

© Janet Martin

 "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

Matt.24:42