Thanksgiving

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Despite the heartache

and anguish of endings

faltering footsteps

and wilderness wanderings

the training ground
of unforgiving terrain,

this soul-defying sea of sand

the Day finds me

Still Standing

Stronger

Kinder

Human

and Whole

ever grateful for,

ever undergirded by

this Pathway
Paved with Grace

~***~

-e.a.a. "Hindsfeet", Thanksgiving Day 2011

"The LORD God is my strength, and He will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon my high places."
-Habakkuk 3:19

Moments

"Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The moments fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them."

-Psalm 139:16

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My friend, Jen, author of Ripplespeak, wrote to me recently, and offhandedly (or perhaps intentionally) mentioned "the Timing Thing"...

...this sparked what few synapses are still firing in my noggin and sent me down this poetic path.....considering what happens, what can happen, in a moment....

Jen, this one's for you, my dear friend...

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Since before Millenia

our moments were formed

Gift boxes given

to be filled

with our chances

our choices

daring dreams

and

harvested hopes...

...each one a Seed that Becomes...

...Love Given

Love Received

Left turns at Albuquerque,

taken, and not taken...

...Moments filled with

Plenty and Enough,

there for the taking

there for the giving...

Miniscule measures

of our Lives as a whole

the flutter of each

felt far beyond

what we can imagine...

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e.a.a. "Hindsfeet" 11/20/11