The promise of journeying

Thank you all so much for your prayers and concern.

We heard on Thursday that the hospital do not expect Dad to see out the coming week. As a result I am shortly going to Birmingham to spend Dad's final days with him. I'm expecting then to stay in Birmingham to make arrangements for and to hold Dad's funeral.

All of our family would be grateful for your continued prayers that we will be open to the Spirit, exude humble strength, celebrate life emergent, and find the promise of journeying.

Death

A death
takes the wind from our sails
the petrol from our tank
the spring from our step
if we are wise
we reflect
in the silence
we may not connect
with anything
but, as we arise –
as we must,
it is what our loved one
would want –
we believe that
peace will come
God is near by
and hears our cry
and that
life goes on.

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Daniel Lanois - The Maker.