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Lent Photo-A-Day (February 10 – March 27, 2016)
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Day 31 — Sorrow
There have been lots of times in my life when I’ve felt sorrow — in the death of my parents, watching my sister’s struggle with her husband who has cancer, seeing the disappointment on my daughter’s face when she failed to make the basketball team in high school, and the disappointment on my son’s face when his name got left off the back of a school T-shirt with the band members names… There have been oh so many times.
But there was one time I felt totally helpless and sorrowful as I knelt in the snow in the backyard and tried to save a little sparrow. Some of you have read this story. I’ve posted it a couple times. But after 30 years that sorrow still makes my heart ache. Nothing, even the death of loved ones, has ever affected me like the death of that little bird. Perhaps because for the first time I came face to face with my own human limitations.
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A Sparrow for Mother’s Day
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Sorrow too is a part of our growth. It gives us depth and breadth. And yes, we mourn our own mortality 🙂
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I think that was a first run-in with it for me. It’s an awful thing to find our you’re not all powerful, isn’t it…
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Shatters the ego 🙂
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That made me cry, how could you ever forget.
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I never will. I don’t think I’d ever felt so helpless. Of course that was before my folks died so you might say I was a sorrow virgin?
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Because when another dies, we feel a part of us has been taken away. I know exactly what you mean.
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Yes, as I posted in the sidebar:
Everything changes,
Everything is connected,
Pay attention.
(Jane Hirshfield)
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Oh, that so sad. It’s strange the things that stick with us like that, isn’t it? I hope you’re not feeling too blue remembering these things.
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I always feel a little blue about it, but I think it was a very important lesson to learn. And finding God speak to me in the scripture verse was something I needed so badly just then. Thanks for stopping in and commenting, Becky. Nice to meet you.
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