How do 'you' feel?

How do you feel Lord?
When one of you children,
falls to the depths
of sickness disease.

How do you feel Lord?
When cancer destroys,
One of your dear ones,
Lord how do you feel?

Is it with mixed emotions
you take them to heaven
knowing the heartache,
others have as they go?

Or is it celebration,
when they bow before Jesus?
How do you feel Lord?
When we let them go?

------------------- written 2006 - LarryG

I remember deciding that when we mourn he mourns,
when we cry he too cries,
and his presence brings a comforting peace along
with the empathy and sympathy he brings. - Larry

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. ~Psalm 31:24 KJV

How do 'you' feel?

Love Letter No 28 - Excerpts from Love Letters

A link and an excerpt for each love letter posted on this blog.

1. New Love - "New love creates new worlds to delve into."
2. Absent Love - "Why must love be absent! for it is not. Yet you are absent and I love you."
3. Tender Love - "

   This tenderness, yes,

   all the way through,

   just what we’ve been hoping for.

   We giggle, then laugh, ... uncontrollably."
4. Patient Love -"Cradling our hopes of love with deepest care, patiently giving room for the struggles of love"
5. Healing Love – "All you must know is this, “love heals.”"
6. Messy Love – "It's a mess, my life is upside down, I want to turn it back over, I know you will be there because we are in this mess together."
7. Our Love - "Our love is life, it's light, it's peace, it's joyful."
8. Morning Love – " I rise to your touch, you are with me."
9. Fun Love – "You tickle me! One of many reasons I love you."
10. Simple Love – "And how those kisses simplify the statement our energy makes together."
11. Surprising Love – "What was made alive by love is the very thing keeping our love alive. Surprise!"
12. Real Love – "the harmony of our hearts has beauty that continually unfolds"
    
13. Hurry Love – "Hurry love, hurry, for I am humbled."
14. Encouraging Love – "The heart we share together, the heart of our joined hearts, is a pearl of great price."
15. Tacit Love – "Silence deepens our hearts, deepens our thoughts, deepens our presence to one another and all the possibilities life brings us."
16. Autumn Love – "The gift of the season is the gift to be shared, colors of harvest and colors of love."
17. Sparkle Love – "Love goes far beyond our ability to verbalize."
18. Invisible Love – "I desire a word to describe an invisible feeling"
19. Light Love – "Beginnings are simple, yet "the devil is in the details."
20. Overflow Love – "love’s sketch is designed to overflow with the beauty of all the colors of life."
21. Christmas Love – "always attempt ... the greatest love"
22. Empty Love – "This emptiness is a soulful sister to silence and restraint."
23. Flowing Love – "May the flow of life, love, and laughter, possess you"
24. Wild Love – "To lose wild love's passion is to lose our very selves."
25. Mythic Love – "a story that when shared will teach fundamental truths of love"
26. Question Love – "is it "the desire to love and bless" ... or are we only hoping "to be loved and blessed"?"
27. Overwhelming Love – "To fill love's deepest wounds ... is desire's ancient ache."

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These excerpts from the first 27 weekly love letters, may they serve as a reminder of an enjoyable post, or inspiration to read one you missed, just click a link to read the entire letter. And have a happy Valentine's Day with much love, LarryG

"goodbye" to you

If I could spend my life saying

"goodbye" to you,
a moment in forever reminding

us it was all true,
how real and oh how sweet,
to bend and kiss your feet.

how many times you held me,
and squeezed me so lovely.

if I could spend my life saying

"goodbye" to you,
I'd gladly take time out

each day to do,
a moment of reflecting

how we cared,
the days together

that we shared.

a moment each day

held in mind,
to remind me

of a goodbye so kind.

a to z meme (in rhyme)

attached or single?----------------------------------------------

single describes me

best friend?----------------------------------------------

i have best friends that don't deny me

cake or pie? ----------------------------------------------

the correct answer is both

day of choice? ----------------------------------------------

Saturday, a great day to loaf

essential item? ----------------------------------------------

this is easy, paper and pen

favorite color?----------------------------------------------

the rainbow reduced to one, it's green

gummy bears or worms? ----------------------------------------------

gummy whichever is always good

hometown? ----------------------------------------------

Small town USA, live out in the wood.

indulgence?----------------------------------------------

don't buy them or sell them, just cut yourself slack

january or july? ----------------------------------------------

whichever ever I am in there is something in the other to want back

kids?----------------------------------------------

there are three, two girls and a boy

life isn’t complete without?----------------------------------------------

another easy question, love, hope and joy

marriage date?----------------------------------------------

July 4 nineteen eighty six

number of magazine subscriptions? ----------------------------------------------

currently one paid, others i ditch

orange or apple?----------------------------------------------

is answering both twice called cheating?

phobias?----------------------------------------------

mostly being in over my head, or taking a beating

quotes? ----------------------------------------------

far too many to inscribe on this post

reasons to smile?----------------------------------------------

any day breathing should be a boast

season of choice? ----------------------------------------------

I will go with the fall

tag 5 people... yip, you again----------------------------------------------

if you are reading and haven't tried this I'm tagging you all.

unknown fact about me?----------------------------------------------

all i have are known

vegetable? ----------------------------------------------

anything organic, not genetic, not a clone

worst habit? ----------------------------------------------

compulsive and too quick to respond

x-ray or ultrasound? ----------------------------------------------

both for a third time, may i go on

your favorite food(s)? ----------------------------------------------

i have a taste for quality

zodiac sign? ----------------------------------------------

Sagittarius is me

to bless a caregiver

As need increases may the task be lightened with assurances and affirmations.

May nurturing intuition guide your choices and deeds yielding fruitful days of interaction with and on behalf of the one receiving care.

With wisdom and trust, may you record the gifts of each day as reminders of personal blessings shared and received through caregiving.

May "gracious thankfulness" for mutual life be your watchword, enjoying the special quality of each days passing and sharing life's stories with one another.

And as the tension builds and heartaches strain, may your physical presence during daily struggles express with eloquent understatement the mystery of divine omnipresence.

May the depth of relationship be always reminding to care for yourself, for in being there is responsibility first to self and secondly for the other.

Without anticipation, but in confident knowledge that new phases of life will come, may existence beyond the impending struggles gather gentleness around your own needy heart.

May the breezes of new days speak your name with the spirit voice of your loved one reminding you that for a time your name was called and you were chosen to be that special someone in the fragility of life.

And finally, may this bring the hope and promise needed to sustain you now and in the days of warmest remembrances.

Not a problem to Conquer - Remix #6

seek, seek, seek
find, find, find
mystery, mystery, mystery
all the mystery we live in
revealed in a moment of life

work, work, work
solve, solve, solve
problem, problem, problem
all the problem we live in
resolution in times of life

do i want to discover,
uncover, revel in unveiling
do i want exertion,
question, dissolve in purpose

graciousness grabs the gentle engagement
till work becomes play
and solution leads to truth and beauty
the mystery, expose'

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This remix based on

Saturday - Not a problem to Conquer

Hard truth vs Acceptance

How will hard truth come into lives between?

Not knowing when, only that it soon would.
Places, heart's hope, emotion is unseen,
Unkind to speak and give insight that could
Tell all, candor, deceit has been so rude.
Confront stone wall that's built cannot be done,
Though pain is caused by this I now ought run.

"the mystic mind never intended for truth to stand alone, for it must always be balanced with beauty." -o'hOgain

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This response poem for Elle -
based on her poem Goodbye posted yesterday.

Have I?

Have I dreamed? Have I jaded? Have I doubted?

Have I tried? Have I hurt?
Have I accepted?

Have I healed? Have I lived?
Have I questioned? Have I died?

Have you?

Love Letter No 27 - Overwhelming Love

Dear Bond,

A poet once asked, "How do I love thee?" and arrived at a lovely moment of repose. Love allows loss of order; counting is useless. Love surpasses the heights men have soared; it is unlimited. Life may have an immense enormity of depth and width. Yet, love's spirit fills all space that is not physically the beloved. Imagine how that mingles with all and in all.

There is a complete peace in the beauty and truth sustained through consummate love. This permanent climate is perfected for the satisfaction of love's embrace and release, involvement and disengagement. To fill love's deepest wounds with healing light, be it sun, twilight's gleam or midnight moon is desire's ancient ache. Add to this fluidity pouring over every ill, hurt, right or wrong. The freshness of chilled breeze to sing brand new life each day. The fire of love born instinctual, breeding fervor that comes oozing from each pore. The light playfulness of trust blooming beautifully through youth's remembrances.

Love's gracious encounter meets each moment of the day in the breath that flows in and out. There is love that encompasses not just "a life", but all of life. That is how this love proclaims itself beyond the ability to express. So if the power that makes life's energy selects heaven on behalf of the lover, even in death there must prove to be something more, greater love, perhaps even more than mortal life affords.

With most tender love and deep abiding affection,

LarryG

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This is inpired by Sonnet XLIII by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Write a love letter and share it with someone special in your life.

Love Letters are a Thursday feature.

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potential, tangle

happens all the time,
unsuspecting or not
surprise with emotion,
do you know what you've got?

it can hit in a moment,
swoop in after days
could be potential
those are its ways

the mind in a tangle
the face in a flush
symptoms too classic
it's a great big crush!

to bless snow

~For Michael~
(be sure to see the video)

May the glisten of moonlight
remind every gaze,
freshness has arrived
on the breath of mystery.

When the natural protection of snow
descends silently in the night,
may the clean cool refresh the ground
of its arriving.

May the lightness of each dazzling form
bring it's unique weight to bear
on flake upon flake,
then the earth supports you
graciously, allowing form
to mimic shape, yet hide nature.

And as the day drifts along
may your friendly character
bring laughter, fun and joy
to all that welcome
your sparkling presence.


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Picture credit: I took this picture in Germany, it snowed overnight our first evening in country.

Through the Day - Remix #5

instinctual faction
embedded circuit
defining action

prayerful pursuit
healing lotion
divine duet

shared emotion
friendly attraction
true devotion




LarryG's note says "Read through aloud two or three times for effect"

Moving Through the Day

Which came from comments to this post by a dear friend. ;)