“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.”
Dalai Lama
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
Hermann Hesse
(honey bee visits a purple cone flower in Nashville, TN / Julie Cook / 2015)
We live our lives rhythmically, lulled into the complacency of the ebbs and flows of our routines-
Yet. . .in the blink of an eye, our lives can be altered forever. . .
I ask for your prayers. . .
My dear daughter-n-law’s childhood home, the home of her grandparents, was destroyed in an early morning fire yesterday.
The cause is still under investigation.
There was currently some renovations taking place and that construction is being eyed as a possible cause.
We do give thanks however that her grandparents and mother all escaped harm—yet they have lost everything.
It is to those cherished family heirlooms and photographs—those momentous and images from the birth of children and grandchildren, to the wedding albums, wedding dress, cherished children’s toys, to the tokens remaining from a parent taken far too soon. . .those sacred items of the past which help to shape a family. . .those things which are now suddenly lost, seem to be the hardest loss to bear during any sort of tragedy of this nature.
A home which seemingly offered strength and stability. . .the representation of ones family’s structure and unity, having now vanished in the blink of an eye, leaves a bewildering sense of the surreal gnawing deep within ones psyche.
My daughter-n-law began her nervous first day in her new school yesterday only have to suddenly leave in order to travel across the state back home, to see with her own eyes that her family is indeed thankfully intact—alive and well of body yet shaken of spirit.
She and my son will now join them to mourn the loss of what was. . .as my daughter-n-law now offers her piece of fabric to the quilt which has made them, and will continue to make them, a family. . .
As we now join in the prayer. . .Oh Lord, that all things shall be made new. . .
You make all things new
You make all things new
Yesterday and forever
Your love never changing
This hope never fading
Hallelujah
Hillsong Worship
All Things New Lyrics
“And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new. . .”
Revelation 21:5
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