Dear Lucy, I'm Learning Things I Thought I Knew...

Lucy and I loved this song

I'm sending it out to her family, and mine, from both of us.

I remember her telling me she wants to share this song with her children

till it drives them crazy 😅...and I said, 'me too!' 

You Are Loved

We chose to interpret this song as God singing to His children

One of the blogs I subscribe to is Barnstorming, click HERE

after Lucy suggested to me a number of years ago 'that she thinks I would love it'. 

And I do!

OH, one of things that has left a gargantuan hole in my life 

are our sister-soulmate loves and being able to share them with each other.

 How I miss the unexpected surprises of 'you would love this, Janet!

and visa-versa. 

How often I still whisper' you would love this, Lucy'

 though I know she is in a place of unimaginable wonder and beauty

 in the presence of our Beloved Savior-King forever!

On today's post HERE, about grief, 

the author, Emily Gibson, shares some words of timeless wisdom;

'We don’t have control over the amount of time,

 but we do have control over how extensively

 our love for others is heard and spread.'

Barnstorming~

And those words inspired today's poem...

Dear Lucy

I'm learning things I thought I knew before the sudden loss of you

Before I understood how tears can mark days turned to months then years

After what I now realize I thought I did, but didn't, prize

Of time I thought we had until you donned wings to where Time stands still 

 

I thought that you and I would weather the 'joys' of growing old together

Where I would blaze a trail and find you following, not far behind

And in its grin-groan-grunting art we'd keep each other young at heart

I never thought I'd turn to see only frames, where you used to be 

I'm learning, as I vainly rue the things no wishing can undo

To take each opportunity that comes without time's guarantee 

To wear love's second-mile-grade shoes as if I had no time to lose

And not to be unduly vexed, but love/live as if I could be next

I'm learning to revere love's role as I advance toward the goal

(where none of use can see how far from its eternity we are)

But all of us should take to heart the privilege to do our part

To consider our fellowman and love each other while we can

I'm learning to fully embrace the gift of looking at your face

Of cherishing both high and low of holding on and letting go

And never minding quite so much the humour of Father Time's touch

As I learn what I thought I knew, dear Lucy, before missing you

Janet💔

Years ago, the chorus to the song below was a prayer

Lucy and I shared...to live till our children are grown, if God wills!

God willed her/our prayer to be answered.

Moe Bandy Till I'm Too Old To Die Young 1987

And this, straight from the Word of God...

Jer.31:3

“I have loved you with an everlasting love;

 I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.