Intricately Intermingled...

Breath-robbing joy/awe

and soul-penetrating sorrow

or

breath-robbing sorrow

and soul-penetrating joy/awe.

This is love.

This afternoon I picked up our grandchildren and their parents,

from the airport, after a two week visit in Nova Scotia with

her husband's family.

My heart thrilled with joy as they emerged from the airport 

(I missed them!!)

and I couldn't help but think of their Mimi and Poppy at the

other end of love's spectrum; the tender sorrow of farewells.

This is love; the fine intermingling of joy and grief.

Last week as I sat in our lawn with dad

(whose dementia often leaves him confused)

the joy of loving such a dear dad

rushes through my heart with breath-stealing sorrow

as he struggles to complete the sentence,

with 'I just can't seem to think how to say what I was going to'...

Across the road wedding prep is escalating as the last of

their children plans to be married/fly the coop on Saturday,

and our neighbours will be empty-nesters!! 

Again, bittersweet are the joys of love!

The end of one era and the beginning of another 🙏💖 

1 Cor.13:7-8

Love...

bears all things, believes all things,

 hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

Intricately intermingled

Joy and sorrow's part

Rushing, crushing,

Waking, aching

Taking us by heart

Making us, of diverse nature

Stature, trait and frame

Bitter-sweetly

and completely

Very much the same 

  So then, having love in common

We weather life's storms

Laughing, weeping,

Giving, keeping 

Love, in all its forms

Manifesting Something Greater

Beyond love's façade

 Ceaseless Wonder

Over, under

Ultimately, 

God

Janet Martin