My Day's Long and Arduous Journey

by compound complex 20 Replies latest jw friends

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  Sail Away

  What must be borne with calm, with dignity, with rejoicing, has been prepared for me from earliest times. Its accomplishment requires nothing of me . . .

  (((CoCo))), I'm relieved to see you are posting again! May you gain strength each and every day! Thank you so much for your kind words of support toward me concerning my husband and his illness. That you would respond to me when you were struggling with your own health issues speaks volumes as to the kind of man you truly are! 

  Sometimes it is all about acceptance, isn't it? May you be well and continue to add your beautiful insights and words to this community. 

  ETA I wish I knew how to do the quotes thingy properly!
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  compound complex

  I'm very grateful, Sail Away, for your words of appreciation. It's good to be back -- my doctor said that I was lucky to be alive.

  Wishing you and your husband well, in particular his improvement toward better health.

  Love,

  CoCo
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  quest81

  Good to 'see' and 'hear' from you CoCo. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
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  violias

  My husband had a heart attack and recovery was slow. Depression always seems to follow and makes it  challenging but  he  recovered and is doing much better.  I pray that for you too. 

  Even though you are speaking to us via the computer , it feels as though we are sitting down with a cup of tea. You have such a gift to reach people. I hope we can be of support to you too.
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  Slidin Fast

  I think CoCo you qualify as our poet laureate.  Not all poetry rhymes, not all prose is poetic.
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  compound complex

  Greetings, Quest81, Violas, and Slidin Fast:

  You are such dear people -- thank you so much!

  Only now do I realize that there was damage to my heart, confirmed by my cardiologist. I wrongly concluded that "heart attack" simply meant PAIN!!! So then, as you would understand, there will be a protracted recovery time. I'm passed all the "shoulda, woulda, couldas." 

  Time to lay my mind and emotions to rest -- and let the healing begin!

  Tante amore,

  CoCo
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  compound complex

  One always hopes for better, but this one, this poor and lonely poet who rarely manages a rhyme, contents himself that the sun both rose and offered him warmth, albeit a thin and pale warmth this lonely winter's day.

  The waning day has become more somber, more gray, yet the advent of Sol's dipping below Earth's horizon fills me not with dread of looming Darkness, but reminds that on the morrow I shall have another chance at life . . . at love.
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  doofdaddy

  • COCO

    Sad to hear of your health issues but very glad that you have been given more time to spread your thoughtful words and gentle attitude

    
    

    Your words reminded me of this piece I am sure you have read and contemplated

    
    

    
    

    JAPANESE MAPLE

    
    

    Clive James
    

    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    Your death, near now, is of an easy sort.

    So slow a fading out brings no real pain.

    Breath growing short

    Is just uncomfortable. You feel the drain

    Of energy, but thought and sight remain:

    Enhanced, in fact. When did you ever see

    So much sweet beauty as when fine rain falls

    On that small tree

    And saturates your brick back garden walls,

    So many Amber Rooms and mirror halls?

    Ever more lavish as the dusk descends

    This glistening illuminates the air.

    It never ends.

    Whenever the rain comes it will be there,

    Beyond my time, but now I take my share.

    My daughter’s choice, the maple tree is new.

    Come autumn and its leaves will turn to flame.

    What I must do

    Is live to see that. That will end the game

    For me, though life continues all the same:

    Filling the double doors to bathe my eyes,

    A final flood of colours will live on

    As my mind dies,

    Burned by my vision of a world that shone

    So brightly at the last, and then was gone.

    
    

    
    

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  compound complex

  How very kind of you, doofdaddy, to think of me and offer this beautiful poem.

  I relate to it on several levels and will read it again and again, allowing its simplicity and truth to sink deep within.

  Blessings and peace.

  CoCo
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  OrphanCrow

  my doctor said that I was lucky to be alive.

  Ah..and so are we. We are lucky to have you back at the keyboard CoCo.

  Get better...A little bit at a time...breathe deeply. 

  And live. With each and every breath.