Just now, this song shown below came on my Pandora at my office. Tomorrow, my wife will have surgery to remove what appears now to be a small cancer in her colon. How is a song, and a surgery related? I am not sure how, or if at all.
But maybe they are.
Maybe the mysterious and slightly frightening events of the past month or so are, in fact, under the hand of control of a God we cannot see, and do not understand more than a shadowy imagine of a man in the desert two thousand years ago. Just maybe.
Tomorrow, as Nancy sleeps in sedation, surrounded by gifted hands a surgeon and staff, at a remarkable hospital, I am choosing to believe its all connected. In a way I may never understand, but can try to embrace with my feeble heart, and mind, and arms. It seems the Shakers got some things right.
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gain'd,
To bow and bend we shan't be asham'd,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
Till by turning, turning we come 'round right
3 comments:
So beautiful sweetie.
Thanks for sharing this and your love with me.
i love you.
All is well with my soul.
Thoughts and prayers today from Lubbock for you and your family.
Steve, I love Simple Gifts and appreciate this artist's offering.
It is all connected just as we are all connected. And I imagine and believe we are in His hands every minute of every day.
As a dear friend once said..."and He didn't bring me this far to drop me on my head."
We are celebrating your good news, we are giving thanks for sterling medical care and a glorious peace which passes ALL understanding (and has washed over us all) and for effective drugs, and we are sitting on hard surfaces and we are eating ‘hard’ stuff…ALL with your beautiful NANCY in mind.
Simple Gifts indeed.
Hallelujah!
sally & tracy
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