ECHOES

Who remembered us in our lowly state, For His mercy endures forever;    Psalm 136:23

It is very humbling to live alone in your golden years.  Echoes of laughter and the scuffling of tiny feet play through your mind, as long ago fragrances of Sunday feasts and Holiday turkeys are still so fresh that you can taste the goodness.  Memories of wonderful blessings hang on the wall, shrouded with a coat of summer dust.  If you close your eyes you are transported sweetly back to the moments so carefully etched in your heart.

You thank God for those wonderful times of your life, and you thank Him, too, for erasing the “not so good” to a fading shadow.

With your prayer list you re-etch each name and need with your finger and heart, earnestly petitioning God for resolve.  Then with your closing Bible you dream and pray and wonder when those once small lives will come again, bringing new friends and loved ones to birth a new memory and added echoes.

I Praise you Lord for the echoes of yesterday – and for tomorrow!

Written 10-27-2018