Have you ever stopped to think about the fact we human beings are a big bunch of losers? From the day we’re born to the day we die, we’re always losing something. Oh, we fight it, some of us more than others. We have an innate desire for wholeness. Life itself is winning, I suppose, but loss is present, nonetheless. Continue reading “What have you got to Lose?”
I’m hours away from getting on a plane to visit my mother. She lives 10 hours from me in the next province over. She has dementia and it’s been worsening of late. For a couple of years now, she’s been slipping, repeating herself, forgetting important things like her health history or that she wears glasses and hearing aids. She’s still an avid talker, but her conversations now revolve around her big tv and the man friend that drops in to watch football. Sometimes when I’m with her and I’m bored and a little mischievous and too tired to redirect her, I’ll bring up the big TV myself. One of her oft repeated phrases is, “At least I still have my mind”, something that makes us smile every time she says it. Continue reading “Christmas is About Love”
For my mother, Sharon Mayforth, in honour of Alzheimer’s Awareness Month.
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There’s a kid picking through a garbage can
While I sit down to breakfast
There’s tired man in an unemployment line
While I head off to work
There’s an invalid struggling to use his limbs
While I climb on my bicycle
And there’s a world out there trying
While I’m watching my TV
There’s a girl, she’s been living in a cardboard box
While I’m warm and sheltered
There’s a child lying broken on a kitchen floor
While I have been embraced
There’s a boy dodging bullets in a civil war
While I take peace for granted
There’s a world out there crying
While I’m watching my TV
I live in a world where I can choose to stay
Will I venture out, will I look and really see
That life is happening all around me?
I’ve been living in a fairytale
Some are living in a tragedy
What can I do?
Will I do anything?
There’s a lonely one pining in an empty room
While I’m loved and wanted
There’s sickly soul looking for a lasting cure
While I’m whole and strong
There’s a muddled mind searching for the simple truth
While I’m clear and rested
There’s a world out there dying
While I’m watching my TV
I live in a world that I must choose to leave
I must venture out, I must look and really see
That life is happening all around me
Lord, I wanna be a living spring
Welling up to eternity
Where everyone can come and drink
There’s a world out there
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So far the days have strayed since when we were together
Oh, how the hours have flown since I last held your hand
I long to hear your voice and trace your face and hold you nearer
And wish to never lose you again
Now time is marking days we spent in celebration
But in your absence, I am at a loss for joy
The day that you first graced this place, now a reminder
That you will tarry elsewhere evermore
Oh, God, who watched his closest friends desert, betray him
Oh, God, who died alone in agony
Oh, God, I clasp your promises in weakness and hang my head in heart-sick misery
I plead, though feebly, with the psalmist
Come satisfy as only you can do
I stumble onward, tearful, faithful, and in earnest
And trust that you will see me through
Author’s Note: This poem was written for a friend who lost his spouse.
Complete the experience. Listen to Danny Gokey’s Tell your Heart to Beat Again.
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