As If...No Time Has Passed At All

For Jesus-followers, as hard as farewells are, 

we have a bond that goes beyond miles right through eternity!

There is nothing in this world like the bond between fellow-believers!

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Cor. 13

Never enough time with those we love!
I was going to do this post way before a month passed but...
you know how it is; the days feel twice as short, it seems, since we're back,
 catching up on fall work and adjusting to a new child-care routine!

I have a lot of thought-hugs (aka prayer:) for this gal (an old neighbor) since visiting a month ago!

And when we meet each other, sisters in The Faith, it's as if no time has passed at all...

This gal had a huge welcome' sitting on our counter and in the fridge when we got in...

 (in a  house lent to us for our east-family visit) by its owner-angel we have never met!

I cherish the face to face moments we had...almost a month ago already?!!

...and some moment are nice immortalized in poem!

A few people have asked how many poems my East-trip-visit inspired
and my answer is always the same...I don't know yet!

I was thinking as I cleaned a mundane lunch mess, 

about where we were a month ago and how nice it was to just sort of pick up where we left off...

..to a heart-neighbour (not an old neighbour:)

...As if our children had not grown

taller than she or I

where year on year has softly flown

into That Big Oh My

as if a couple thousand miles

did not exist twixt Touch

so then hugs drowned in teary smiles

Don't hurt us quite so much

as if, deep down we try not to

dwell on the Big Fat When

of days-weeks-months, a year or two

until we meet again

as if her house was next to mine

or not far down the street

we say with Confidence Divine

farewell until we meet

Janet Martin