Good afternoon dear Angels; I hope All are doing very well-----
Yesterday, I Spent the day working around the house, staying busy occupied. Guess we have more than the 6 inches of snow meteorologist predicted last evening. It’s probably more like 8 to 10 inches of snow on the ground here at my mountain cabin home. Snow has fallen all day and stopped not long ago. Though it’s beautiful and I’ve taken several photos of it. But earlier this evening before sunset, I was standing on our porch watching the birds at the feeder as they gathered.
As I was watching the snow quietly falling, taking in the scenery before me---the pond down over the hill below the orchard my nephew Jimmy had planted for us., where he caught a fish the Summer before he graduated college, those summer nights spent sharing hopes and dreams, plans for his future, telling me he’d like to have me to decorate his own home someday---as I walk past the snow covered flower garden where our roses grew only last Summer. I’m reminded of the corner stone he had placed in the garden. He had said, “ when you pass by your garden and see the rock, you’ll think of me and remember I was here and put it there for you”-----I replied I didn’t need a rock to remind me of my love for him or that we are family and we help each other-----
But I do think of another rock just as this one is placed in the corner of the garden----so is Jesus Christ our Cornerstone, keeping Him in the center of our lives, no matter what happens in our lives, He is the guiding light, the key to peace, real contentment and our very salvation--------I recall not long after that conversation Jimmy prayed the prettiest prayer at suppertime-----then, a few months later he would be so cruelly taken from us at the hand of an evil manipulative family. Left with so many questions, without answers, still wondering why as the snowflakes softly blanketed the trees, while buds on limbs and on flowers peeking through the snow, reminding me Spring will soon be here------
I looked toward the barn and my husband’s woodwork shop. All these memories seemed frozen in time------ Seeing his John Deere tractor through the falling snow----- parked in front of the closed barn doors when only a few months ago we were working in that same shop making stools for our flowers we planned to winter----- he had been driving his tractor clearing one of the fields. I attempted to capture that moment second with a photograph yet I know it could never capture what it is I’m feeling in my heart, the realization hitting me how final it is and how much I now cherish our last parting------at least on this side of heaven….
as I walked along, noticing my own footprints in the snow-----I thought about how each of us leave a legacy-------I pray that someday, there will come a time I will think about not how my beloved left----but of the love ----- the special person he was, the goodness that was in his heart, his caring and love for others, he lived to help others and that amazing love starts with God’s amazing grace, what a legacy indeed~
Happy Palm Sunday USM
Blessings~
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