Tuesday August 24 2015  WE ONLY HAVE THE MOMENTS WE LIVE AND THEN WE HAVE FOREVER!

NO THING IN TIME WILL LAST

By Kathleen Martens

August 24, 2015

Night Is falling, a chill in the air,

Eventide in quiet speaks.

Days are shortening,

Stealthily, Autumn sneaks.

So soon summer will be past,

Lazy days of traveling fun

Wrap up quite quickly

When languid days are done.

Trees adorned in seasonal attire

Too soon will undress,

And piles of leaves will blanket earth

Creating an artistic mess.

And marching in next

Is Mr Frost,

When all the gardens

Will then be lost.

Unhurried days are exchanged

By hurried hours of light.

So much to do in such short time

For earlier will come the night.

Enjoy these last laid-back hours

Before school and schedule resumes

When all of life’s precious moments,

By tasks, will be consumed.

Enjoy the now, it passes quickly,

No thing in time will last.

WE ONLY HAVE THE MOMENTS WE LIVE,

And they too will pass too fast.

We only have the moments we live.  Here on earth, that is!   My cousin Janey Beth died Saturday night.  She was 60 years old, daughter, wife, mother, grandparent, sister, aunt, friend, and cousin.  One life gone too early from cancer, and left behind are all those who love her.  I say ‘LOVE’, not ‘LOVED’ because I am certain that all who knew her, love her still.  I do.  Janey was a one of a kind person, soft spoken, gentle, kind, and ever giving of herself.  She will be greatly missed by all those who knew and love here on earth.  I know where she is and I know our separation is only temporary.  There are so many people in heaven to greet again when my time comes to go there.  I’ll especially enjoy seeing my mother in her new heavenly body, no more pain, with a sound body and mind, and no sorrow.  I can’t even begin to imagine how beautiful heaven is.  Just make certain you know where you are going!  There are only two places to choose from.  I know where Janey was headed.  It makes me glad to know I will see her again too!

I do extend my heartfelt love and sympathy to Janey’s family for the great loss they feel by no longer having Janey’s presence with them.  May all their beautiful memories bring them comfort.

Never allow even one day to be shortchanged by worry or anger or frustration or even sorrow while you are here on earth.  I was listening to a sermon the other day by Damian Kyle from Calvary Chapel Modesto.  He said the one piece of advice he would impart to others that he wished he had learned earlier in life, is to never waste even one moment on worrying.  Absolutely nothing was ever changed by worry except the wasting of your time.  And I feel the same way.  God is in control.  I truly believe that to be true. I put all the outcomes of my life into His hands, listen for His quiet voice to speak to me in my thoughts,  ask for God’s wisdom, and go forth.  Someday I too will die just as Janey has died.  I do not worry about the “IF”, or when, or how.  First of all, there is not an  “IF’, UNLESS I am still here on earth when Jesus comes back to take the righteous up with Him.  Now that would be awesome!!!  So, as I was saying when I began this paragraph, don’t worry, just live each day with the fullness of joy in your heart, doing good, and staying on the righteous road.  Then there is nothing to worry about.

Dave is still on the intravenous antibiotic treatment.  I choose not to worry, but instead I pray that I will have him with me for many more years.  I thank God that we found the brewing of this infection earlier this time.

Hopefully things will start to settle down around this house.  We have Court’s boys from Tuesday night through Thursday evening.  We’ll get to have another family dinner on Thursday when Court and Amy pick them up.  I love the times they are here for dinner.  Perhaps next week we will be able to start a bit more of “routine” living.  Is there really such a thing as a routine???  Come on sister Velma, you should be able to expound on this.  Teach me how!

Hey to you guys out there in blog-land!  I need to hear from some of you on my contact page.  Shoot me an email.  Shall I close out my blog or continue writing?  Even if I don’t write a blog I will continue to write for myself.  Probably a bit different content since I do know that a lot of things I write in my private world need to be kept to my private diary.  But it would make it easier to just write once a day if no one is interested in reading what I write.  Let me know occasionally who is reading.  Just a quick hello would help!  During the summer I had a lot of short correspondence and I loved it.  I’m feeling a bit lonely right now in blog-land.  Thanks to my sister I still have some response and I can see that I still have numbers reading, or at least clicking on the blog, but haven’t had any questions or responses lately.  Would love to hear from you if you are reading.

This will be another short blog since I am trying to shorten them anyway and I would like to get to bed on time.

God bless all of you!