Blue Sheet via Attachment – Memorial Day – May 25, 2009 –

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SUMMER EDITION –
If you receive this it is because you are on my email group designated for the summer mailing. Many are readers of our regular printed blue sheet that is discontinued in the summer. The Summer Edition allows me to put out thoughts without having them accumulate for eventual trashing. This allows you to decide whether to read or not. Summer editions will usually be only one page.
MEMORIAL DAY
I was knocking at the door…
     again…   
     standing dumbly
     wondering what to say.
I had been there before…
     hardly a month ago
     to say good-bye
     to a good looking marine.
As we shook hands
     he told me he was going
     to Vietnam.
Now I was back again…
     same house
     and said to the dad
     “I heard about your son.”
He called the mother…
     we talked
     numbed and dazed
     about their son
     dead at 19.
I imagine Memorial Day
     will always be more to them
     than a three day holiday
     and the Indianapolis 500.
And you can multiply
     the numbness of that house
     by the number of military graves
     across the land.

REMEMBERING ONES WHO REMEMBER
Today I remember
     those who remember.
A young couple
     laying flowers
     at the grave
     of a still-born dream.
A sister
     sobbing not comprehending
     her brothers death
     on a hurtling motorcycle.
A white-haired couple
     straightening the flag
     and breathing a grief breath
     at a grave now 30 years old.
A mother and two children
     standing hand in hand
     misty-eyed at the mystery
     over a missing one.
Grief passes you say…
     passing in weeks
     or months or years?
Yes – God's good time
     mutes grief's cries
     dries grief's tears.
But on some days
     memory stirs ashes
     to uncover hot embers.
Today I remember
     those who remember.

      From Art's “8 MOMENTS for Memory Days” The complete booklet can be found on our Moment Ministries Web Page which also includes the view from our Puget Sound deck.
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