I'm about to fly off to sunny (I hope) California to visit my eldest son and family, and get in some beach time. This will be the last blog for a while, but I'll be back in a couple of weeks!
Here are excerpts from "The Next Place". I should say, as a Christian, I miss references to God and heaven and the trinity, but the words are still lovely, I think. This was given to me last summer by a dear, dear friend.
"The next place that I go will be as peaceful and familiar
as a sleepy summer Sunday and a sweet, untroubled mind.
And yet...it won't be anything like any place I've ever been..
or seen.. or even dreamed of in the place I leave behind.
I'll glide beyond the rainbow. I'll drift above the sky.
I'll fly into the wonder, without ever wondering why.
There will be no room for darkness in that place of living light,
Where an ever-dawning morning pushes back the dying night.
The very air will fill with brilliance, as the brightly shining sun
And the moon and half a million stars are married into one.
I will finally be perfect. I will be without a flaw.
I will never make one more mistake, or break the smallest law.
I will travel empty-handed. There is not a single thing
I have collected in my life that I would ever want to bring
except..the love of those who loved me, and the warmth of those who cared.
The happiness and memories and magic that we shared.
I will cherish all the friendship I was fortunate to find,
all the love and all the laughter in the place I leave behind.
All these good things will go with me. They will make my spirit glow.
And the light will shine forever in the next place that I go."
I hope you find a measure of peace in these words. Meanwhile, keep looking up!
Beautiful!
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