The Weathering

The Weathering
began the day she took her first breath.
As air first swarmed her lungs,
and a new mother's caress grazed her god kissed, newborn skin.
It was sculpting her soul to an imperfect expectation
as she was zipped into a swath of butter smooth ivory..
with an unknown and fallible world laid at her feet.
Later it held her hand, as it drew her youthful spirit away, replacing
it with one that was more suited for reality.
In the end it lightly danced on her being,
leaving her with
a sweet, soft smile of peacefully aged
grace.

Live it like it is a test

Life is a test..whether we pass our not depends on our reactions to what is set before us.
I am rereading "The Purpose Driven Life", (I may have mentioned this before!) Sometimes we just need reminders of why we are here, at least I do. Something to keep me on track...as, like the rest of us, I veer off at times.
One of the premises of the this book, is that life is a test.
I can only gage how I am doing by the true feeling in my heart at the end of the day...
letting that feeling be totally honest and true. Sometimes that is a very hard thing to do...

A winter offering

It may be a season with a chill to it, but this weekend it found
a way to offer me a bit of love.
We had our first substantial snow fall last week. Camera in hand I headed out for a walk around the neighborhood.
Fresh, fluffy white snow blanketed the earth, it was so gorgeous to finally see!