Sometimes we see long lists names and more names line after line page after page Then it happens The particular letters that label one person, known and treasured We know 'the rest of the story' therein lies value like treasure buried in a field causing the discoverer to sell all they own to buy [...]
I have caught a flavor of some of creation I've found it in people who I know Some are close for many years my learning grows from them I've watched them can you see in many different places I've seen them laugh I've seen them cry I've seen them study hard I've seen them [...]
A little girl of 6 smiles and frowns party gowns and frilly things A thousand million things flying around her world Once was a toddler looking up giving hugs that warmed some hearts Still she leaps and hugs some folks some day she'll knock them down! Her mind is growing quickly she likes she [...]
She Knows This place... From ceiling color to spider web from every crack or scratch on every floor From every wall where pictures hang Every window Every door She knows this place... These people From parents who begat her Held her, marveled at her birth and loved her ever more deeply through the years [...]
A family gathers round a bed with crisp white sheets the patient lies quietly, eyes closed simply breathing Someone holds her hand warmth passes between them The hand that has touched since our life began now squeezes ours "I'm here", the message sings Our hand caresses her brow smooths the gray hairs back the moments [...]
Dreams come in flowers of differing shapes and sizes colors and textures, to become paintings and murals that speak to us all Room settings at Jan's found out of doors speak imaginations worked into being While God created flowers Jan puts them together in most pleasing ways to 'talk' to us with pleasure to color [...]
Birth and death are linked just so often it seems, as an older family member passes a new one is born I've been touched by death along the way Grandpa Warfel, on a hospital bed my sister and I had been brought so his final wishes could be spoken In my mind's eye, still at [...]
An office sits quietly the desk chair empty for 74 years the door would close and confidential matters passed between client and counselor Documents streamed from typewriters and then from word processors putting down in black and white lives coming, passing deeds and contracts and taxes forms filled out and witnessed to wit Ah, it [...]
Passion and peace can so melt together a little glimpse of heaven can be had When the created come together as the creator did purpose with His blessing and the blessing of the family the blessing of community the blessing of the church and the blessing of society youthful passion can certainly soar The mysteries [...]
It happened just yesterday a voice was stilled a hush settled over us instantly This season of concerts of music swathing us wrapping us in emotions and hope lifting us up higher and higher has that moment, when, the concert finished the songbooks are closed so often the soloist folds the book to her heart [...]