For my days are vanishing like smoke
my bones burn away like a fire.
My heart is withered like the grass.
Psalm 102
April 4
There are losses that can never be replaced. Sadness and loss can swamp you unexpectedly long after you thought you were healed. Are you letting God down?
There are losses that make you acutely aware of your own failures. There is death, and there is the failure to give life. Can you refuse God's forgiveness and healing?
April, always April. "Breeding flowers in a dead land." MLK died April 4, 1968. Many perished in Xenia April 4, 1974, and one died a distance away at the same time. All deaths are equal in God's eyes. All life is from him. Can you refuse life?
No. Before you there is life and death. Choose life, with all its cyclic pain and rebirth, joy and sorrow, death and resurrection.
It's the blight that man was born for. It is Margaret that you mourn for. (cummings)
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
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