May you LIVE all the days of your life!

I was browsing thru myriad photo's of various special occasions held this year -- milestones, turning points, learning curves all!  I was also trying to create a slideshow of them set to appropriate strains of music in the background.  Pfft! and Piffle!  The internet around here makes no concessions whatsoever for a random moment of creativity.  But this will do.  It says what I want to say to my posterity.... that indescribable and almost unbearably beautiful gift of little people in our lives....

May You Live 

Carolyn Arends

If there is a cup of life

And we each get our quotas


May you drink yours down, pass the rest around


And not waste one iota


And if there is a winding road


And mountains meant for climbing


May you be strong and brave, and constantly amazed


By every new horizon


And may you live


All the days


Of your life.


And if our days make up a dance


Then have no hesitation


Turn the music loud and send a crowd


Of friends your invitation


And if it’s true that love's a song


We sing in joy and sadness


Then may your song be sung at the top of your lungs


And may it bring you gladness


May you live


All the days
Of your life


And if there is another world


That waits beyond the curtain


Then when your time has come may you hear "well done"


And may you know for certain


That you lived …

ALL the days of your life!

About the Song 

by Carolyn Arends

...every nano-second of this life is precious, because our lives and what we make of them matter deeply to God. So live this life abundantly, moment by moment, as fully and deeply and passionately as you can. But there’s more to the equation. Live this life in the light of forever, knowing that the God who keeps His loving gaze upon you has prepared a place for you that will be more than you can hope for or imagine. We are called, by God’s grace, to live for both the Now and the Not Yet.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith… (Hebrews 12:1,2)

I'll try and link her music/song/site to this post but shucks, with the satellite performance I've been having lately....

www.carolynarends.com/