Shades of Beauty

Beauty is not always visual.

I heard beauty today.

I listened in to the gentle loving voice of a young mother describing her own childhood memories of time shared at the very same duck pond with her own Mother as a young child. The little girl all of 4, blonde pigtails curled up in a swirl, dressed in her eyelet white skirt, pink sandals & bubblegum pink sweater, listened to the tale with such eagerness, as though a prophet was speaking.

Did your Mommy like ducks? she asked. She loved ducks the Mother replied. " I love ducks too"! she smiled. The young Mother leaned down & kissed her daughters head & said " I know you do sweetie".

A quiet still....they both seemed to be contemplating, dreaming, imagining, wondering off into the powder blue skies....when the little girl with a loving daughters soft tone asked .. "Do they have ducks in heaven Mommy?" I didn't see the tears, but I saw the young Mother let go of her daughter's hand for a brief moment to wipe her eyes & face. She rekindled the hand clasping & looked down to her daughter & said " Yes baby" yes!

The little girl nodded & smiled comforted by the thought.

Lifes Blueprint

Within the human gene pool there are dangers lurking beneath the surface, disease genes that can damage or destroy all hope of an ordinary life.

I met a woman the other day, a breast cancer survivor, her daughter has colon cancer, her son has lung cancer, she lost her Mother to Ovarian Cancer, her Father to Colon Cancer, her Grandmother to Breast Cancer, her sister was just diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. She said cancer has taken the lives of most of her family members in the last 4 generations. She cried & then apologized for crying, I was without words. I stood with a parched tongue unable to console her with a kind & understanding word. What do you say? What does one say to another human being who is surrounded by the constant and chronic loss of loved ones? I’m sorry, doesn’t fit the wound.

Cancer is in deed generational, an unfortunate tapestry in the lineage of many families. "There's a saying that genetics load the gun, but it's the environment that pulls the trigger”. Over 1 Million people get cancer every year. Why us?

Love

and so the journey continues.............

11:11 Make a Wish!

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Permanence

Moving beyond Cancer

Conveyor belt

In blows “the wind of change”

The deed is everything, the glory naught. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Believe

Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. Romans 5:4.

You become what you believe. I’ve embraced this philosophy perhaps from an unwillingness to accept the negative forecast.
Hope, an emotion or state of mind? I haven’t decided. However I’m compelled to pronounce that in my case, I believe hope primarily is a learned concept. I’ve adopted hope, made it part of my family, I’ve given it a lovely place to dwell within my heart of hearts. I nurture it & integrate it into all that I am. Hopefulness is a conscious choice; optimism is good, especially in the unkind face of adversity.