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I had just come from visiting with my aunt.
As the seasons change, as the leaves turn and the weather gets crisp. It won't be long until the snow falls, the roads become more than a bit challenging to navigate and darkness comes so much earlier in the evening. The range of possible excuses to forsake someone increases. We need to find more reasons to CONNECT with people in our lives. I know my old friend will never forsake his mom. My aunt knows that I'll never forsake her, but I know that there are so many others that would just love for us to spend some time with them. All we really have is our time, and how we spend it. We don't have expiration dates printed on the bottom of our feet - I KNOW, I've checked. We also don't know the expiration date of those folks just hoping that we'll call, or, stop by and, as John Prine would say...say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ85Hep0kD0" rel="nofollow">"Hello In There"
I saw an old friend of mine, recently. I was just about to call out to him,thinking he and I could 'catch up' but, I stopped.
He was sitting on the porch of his mom's house....sitting and talking with her. They both looked relaxed, talking and visiting with each other. It was a really nice scene. My aunt is in a wheelchair. When I'm visiting with her, she likes me to take her around the nursing home, ooops, sorry, the senior residence, where she lives.
There are a few art pieces on the wall that we always visit.
Some pieces we joke about , some are beautiful and some are touching.
There's one which is done in an art form called micography, or, micro-calligraphy. The piece is an image from a chapter of the bible,'drawn' entirely by combining Hebrew letters.
There's another one that my aunt always reads to me, in Hebrew. It's is a work up of http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-9.htm" rel="nofollow">Psalm 71:9.
It (roughly) translates: http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2671.htm" rel="nofollow">Cast me not off in the time of old age; when my strength fails, forsake me not.
Some pieces we joke about , some are beautiful and some are touching.
There's one which is done in an art form called micography, or, micro-calligraphy. The piece is an image from a chapter of the bible,'drawn' entirely by combining Hebrew letters.
There's another one that my aunt always reads to me, in Hebrew. It's is a work up of http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-9.htm" rel="nofollow">Psalm 71:9.
It (roughly) translates: http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2671.htm" rel="nofollow">Cast me not off in the time of old age; when my strength fails, forsake me not.
She reads it to me, then looks into my eyes and either smiles or tears up...sometimes....both.
As the seasons change, as the leaves turn and the weather gets crisp. It won't be long until the snow falls, the roads become more than a bit challenging to navigate and darkness comes so much earlier in the evening. The range of possible excuses to forsake someone increases. We need to find more reasons to CONNECT with people in our lives. I know my old friend will never forsake his mom. My aunt knows that I'll never forsake her, but I know that there are so many others that would just love for us to spend some time with them. All we really have is our time, and how we spend it. We don't have expiration dates printed on the bottom of our feet - I KNOW, I've checked. We also don't know the expiration date of those folks just hoping that we'll call, or, stop by and, as John Prine would say...say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ85Hep0kD0" rel="nofollow">"Hello In There"
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