I don’t have time for a decent post…I’ll fill you in on this fabulous weekend soon….I hope. Until then here is something that really, really spoke to my heart….
I’ve introduced you to Christine, my bff from FoReVEr ago…well, let me introduce you to Christine’s cousin who is a writer and my friend as well. She is a beautiful young woman with an amazing knack of putting ponderings of the heart into words. It is really quite beautiful and so often I have found solace for my restless soul when I read her quiet words.
Here is a poem she wrote a few days back that just struck me and has stuck with me all week.
Severances
If I could turn tears to words,
if I could figure–at least outline–
the shadow of Eden flung over our hearts,
and all the hopeless hopings entertained after her fall,
and all the thousand smaller fallings
in that one long drop . . .
then I could explain how much I long for you,
and how much I don’t.
Barn Swallow
Those last two lines have really stuck with me, they explain so much…it was like a light-bulb going off in my head, this war between flesh and spirit that is constantly waged in my soul! ……then I could explain how much I long for you,
and how much I don’t.
read more of her writing here, at her blog called “Our Place”.
