Guest guest Posted July 30, 2008 Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 Hug's Jan xox The Gift Time wants to show you a different country. It's the onethat your life conceals, the one waiting outsidewhen curtains are drawn, the one Grandmother hinted atin her crochet design, the one almost foundover at the edge of the music, after the sermon. It's the way life is, and you have it, a few years given.You get killed now and then, violatedin various ways. (And sometimes it's turn about.)You get tired of that. Long-suffering, you waitand pray, and maybe good things come - maybethe hurt slackens and you hardly feel it any more.You have a breath without pain. It is called happiness. It's a balance, the taking and passing along,the composting of where you've been and how peopleand weather treated you. It's a country whereyou already are, bringing where you have been.Time offers this gift in its millions of ways,turning the world, moving the air, calling,every morning, "Here, take it, it's yours." ~ Stafford ~ (The Way It Is) Web version: www.panhala.net/Archive/The_Gift.html Web archive of Panhala postings: www.panhala.net/Archive/Index.html To subscribe to Panhala, send a blank email to Panhala-subscribe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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