Emptiness fills the room Like a very desolate tomb Alas how I look for You Your with me now and I am new I searched for meaning and future plans Oh what are these menacing world phantoms You said stay with me on this eve Yet you may once again believe Refreshed I am and I thank You For letting me be me Tomorrow comes as it will But all along are We The Three That guideth souls through thick and thin So that We shall ever win Their hearts back home beyond the troubles Our love for them it...

I hope that your Christmas finds you as happy and at peace as is possible in this lifetime. I know that's not always possible but when I am lost for words, I am happy to reflect on the story of God humbling himself to become a man in the form of a child. I suspect that we don't know from Scriptures a lot of what Christ endured as he lived and worked. I am grateful though for that ray of light that he represents for we, a fallen humanity. Thank You Lord for coming to save us from ourselves...

After my dad passed last Spring at the age of 93, suddenly our whole daily routine came to an end. It was a hard summer of change that was kind of forced upon me. I will admit that I struggled for a while there. It was hard but I always knew that by trying to be of service to him that I had done the right things. Now I am resting. 15 or so years of intense (at times) caregiving takes its toll. I am at a point that I can rest deeply now though. No, my life if far from over, but for now, it is...