Sailing Ships

Aug 25th
"When a boat disappears behind the horizon it is not "gone," just out of sight. "
                           

                                             Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Prayer Of Thankfulness

  I am thankful
  a humble servant
  to that act of faith
  that brought you into my life.

    I  know love
    because of you,
    what people call "unconditional love"
    I  imagine the conversation we would have
    we're having it now.
    What other kind of love is there? we say to each other.
    Love, by definition, is unconditional, if there are conditions, it's not love.

      Yes, you say.
      And we agree.


        I can ask for nothing more,
       to do so would seem ungrateful.
        I pray now to practice what you taught me.
        Day after day,
        to person after person.

        I pray that your ship ( we would laugh your soul is too big to be a boat)
        has just gone over a horizon I can't see.
        I pray that place is somewhere  "over the rainbow"
        corny, but a nod to Mom and her singing.
        "She sang like an angel,"  you said.
         She's singing for you now.

A picture my dad took of me while he was in the hospital last year, his feet are in the picture.
I'm so thankful I have this picture.  It makes me smile,  especially when I look at his feet,  smile through the tears.

heaven

I touched heaven loving you.

August 24th

August 24th

"Said Jesus, on whom be peace: The world is a bridge, pass over it,but build no house there."
 Inscription on Abbar's Gate of Victory


I pray to have thankfulness in my heart

to be thankful, as you were, for all blessed life.

I pray to understand what I don't understand

and can not bear.

I live each day like a spoiled brat

not knowing what I have.

You, who are gifted in your loving, guide me.

I pray for guidance, for patience,

not to abandon myself on the

crossing before I walk

over the last bridge.

august 23rd

August 23rd


I pray for you Dad

May peace be with you

may you keep me with you forever

your love is in the heart of my heart

May all that is blessed and beautiful find you.

Amen.

homemade prayers

August 16th

I pray for you:
Be well on your "adventure."
I pray whatever it is and wherever it is that you can just
"jump off the cliff hands open." **

(*from a zen saying)





Aug 17th

I pray for your soul, brilliant and brave.
may peace be yours.
My love is eternal, may it help light the way home.



Aug 18th

"You are the peace in all things calm, you are the place to hide from harm"

Celtic prayer


May our love for you
sail on all your seas
I pray for you,
my heart is with you.



Aug 19th

"Lone fliers are rare and when seen have an air of being in pursuit of some flock which has overlooked them or gone on." The Outermost House, Henry Beston


I pray for you
out in the vast heavens.
I pray that you
are safe.
Hold our love for you in the soul of your soul
may other heavenly souls keep you with them.



Aug 20th

"There is a candle in your heart."
                                     Rumi


A light that will never go out
you and your love
I pray on
I pray that my prayers are heard
and reach the stars that keep you
I pray that my prayers are heard
and send a sweet sound to
the heavens that hold you.
I find you in the silence inside my soul.


August 21st

Bohemia lies by the sea
           Anselm Kiefer Painting
         quote from a poem by Ingebourg Bachmann

I keep wanting to return to the way things were Dad,
your hand in mine
your eyes looking into mine.
It is all a mistake
I want to say.
That utopia
has rested now
That heaven has returned to some other divine place.
Now Bohemia by the sea is in my mind


I pray for you
day after day
moment after moment
I pray for your love, your wisdom, your laughter to continue
I pray that my love for you lights up the night sky
sends the wind through the trees
and remains everlasting in this life and the next.


Aug 22nd

I pray
that love may find a way
to keep you with us always

aug 23

you have to have endurance and patience to get through grief.


grief scares people.

they don't want to be reminded of death

they don't want it near them

if there is a god, why did he take my father away from me.

why?

and if there isn't a god, why is life life

where did he go

and how can I find him

there were so many things i didn't get to say

I know I had months and months and years when he was sick

i could never find the moment the time to say it all

and there would never be a time when I would say there I've said it all

I'm finished I'm complete

because the relationship was ongoing, evolving, not static

not dead

it was alive.

we were living a life together

and growing and discovering each other through that life.

and there never would have been a moment I could have said

ok, now it's time. never.