propensity

...... to love...to cry... to laugh .... to ache... to live with GREAT intensity ....

In  love she befriended, she trusted, she cried and she endured.  Then she learned, she defended, she preserved and she healed.  There is no truer friend  peers can find away from her.  Some have appreciated.  Some are still learning.  But in the end, her capacity to love as she does will continue to shed light on who she truly lives for....and it's not for herself. 

So quick this school year has come and gone.  I know not where time goes.  Does anyone?  The challenges, though seemingly surmountable at the time, have come and gone.... leaving much for reflection and pondering.  But, as always, life marches on and so do issues and lessons.  Coming and going as they please as if to tease with, "I'll be back", "catch me if you can", I bet you'll never get over me" and "next time I am sure to get the best of you".  I'm sure they'll be back.  Some with a vengeance, some with a subtle lure.  They'll be back with their spurs and claws.  But in the mean time, I will sharpen my sword by digging further into the Word.  Sharpening the skills to better breath and count my way to ten.... and then pray us all through to the other side.

But the year was heavily laced with moments of great sentiment too.  Memory makers for the future. Breath takers and tear droppers.  Frills of giggles and puffy sleeves of uncontrollable laughter.  Oh, how these moments stir the sappy sentiment that longs for the standing still of time....just for a little while.  Just long enough to saturate the heart with indescribable intense capillary pulsating satisfaction while inhaling life's next breath.

Longing for more of something....to have and to hold,  to cradle to caress, to cry and giggle over, to take my breath away and to scratch my head over.  More of life's most challenging moments I apprehensively but gladly take.  Because that is where one grows the most when they are intent on doing so.  Humbly I stand, embracing humility and sacrifice. Sacrifice to selfish ideals and and me-isms of sorts.  May more friendships come with lessons so vital.  For I long to grow and learn even more than before.

May this summer be full of serving others..... to help us refocus for the next school year fast approaching.

At last he seems to have found a great friend in someone so beautiful.  So graceful and gracious. So sincere and deliberate in all that she does.  A gem of integrity and a pursuant of godliness.  She befriended and loved his sisters long before she even gave him a curious thought for potential romance.....long before.  We couldn't have asked for a better family to be his "other family", to love him as we do and to live so passionately as we do....for the same reasons that we do.