Pause for Prayer: TUESDAY 4/29

    Me, my parents, my brother and my sister

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, Lord, would have been 

   my parents' 80th wedding anniversary

and tomorrow,

   my father's 111th birthday...

 

This photo brings back the joy of my youth

    and happy, simpler, carefree times

- but it also recalls the worries and fears

    of my adolescent, awkward growing pains... 

 

I'm part of the story of these five Flemings,

    each of whom wrote a part of my tale,

as we struggled to tend and care for each other,

    to be a household, a family of love...

    

From my mother's womb to this very day,

    no others, apart from you, O Lord,

have so closely shaped the man I've become

    and the life I have lived and shared...

 

There's so much that I've forgotten, Lord,

    so much I no longer remember,

but this I know and I won't forget:

    how blessed I am and grateful

for the parents who gave me the life that's mine,

    for the family I call my own...

 

Amen.

     

   

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