Monday, April 6, 2009

An afternoon of reading

Today I spent the afternoon reading /finishing the book I was reading. It was a good read-"Home Another Way" by Christa Parish. It was about a young woman who had a lot of anger in her lfe....she had led a hard and fast life, and had isolated herself from the love any person would try to give her. She said she hated her father- for reasons which she thought had happened (not abuse).....Her father dies, and leaves her some things. There was a box that he had stored a lot of things in, and they were things of her childhood that he had saved during the time that he had not seen her, about 16 years. One of the things in there was a piece of paper- with white handprints on blue paper. They were her hand-prints from when she was about 4 years old. Under the hand-prints was a poem, and I would encourage parents to save the things their children make because it is so precious to read some of them when you (parents) get older.. Here is the poem:
Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always leave my fingerprints
On furniture and walls.
But every day I'm growing
I'll be grown some day
And all those tiny handprints
Will surely fade away.
So here's a little handprint
Just so you can recall
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small.
So all you Mom's and Dad's get those little handprints on a piece of paper, or whatever, and save them for the day you want to think about those years that went by too fast! 

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Celebration

Today we celebrate Palm Sunday-..where were all those people who shouted 'Hosanna!'; Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord? ...Where were they when Jesus was arrested? How soon they forgot............
After church tonight I go with a group of people to our annual Palm Sunday Hymn Sing. We have been doing this for at least 50 years. When we started it was all couples, and now there are serveral of us who are widows..You wonder where the time goes..seems like yesterday that we were all there. It's a wonderful time of singing, and of course good food- we all bring something, and that's a big help. What a joy to sing all the songs- old and new ones- We usually end up by singing "The King is Coming"!
Jerry and I missed a few of them, but usually we managed to be home in Michigan to be with our friends and join in lifting up our voices in song!
May this be a thankful time for all of us - thinking on what Jesus did for us!