Time and Love Enough

 

A Welcome Mat of beautiful Texas wildflowers dazzle the eye!

 

 

 

Ready to be headed home...And yet...

 

The leaving was hard.

 

We are not ready to say Good-bye.  But jobs, and farm and life pull at us...  Millie and Don are in a "holding" zone.  Weak, yet stable.  Content, yet facing uncertainty.

 

The hugs were long, the 'I love you's' whispered hoarse, eyes blurred wet as we set out for home.

 

We have left a "safety-net" of neighbors, family, and meals-on-wheels for Don.  He seems satisfied with the arrangements, but knows he will have struggles.  Missing Millie will be the biggest.  And yet, she is doing well in the rehab center.  The rest, attention and therapy are what she needs most right now.  Don is resigned to the fact that he just can't provide that for her at home... And so, for the first time in over 62 years, they sleep under separate roofs but just a few miles apart.

 

And for the first time in all our married years, we say Good-Bye, truly not knowing if we will see their sweet faces again in this place.  Praying for added days and months and years, but knowing, in all honesty, that God has already graced them with time and love enough for this lifetime and beyond. 

 

We have been given that gift.  Time enough.  Love enough.  And we will rest in it... even when worries gnaw and hearts ache.  Their living example of Romans 12:12 is a constant reminder of a confident Life Walk with a God who has lead them all the way, even to this, the final walk Home:

 

"Be joyful in hope,

patient in affliction,

(and) faithful in prayer."

                        ~  Romans 12:12

 

  Praying moment to moment,

trusting in a God, whose Love is Ever-Present,

All- Powerful and Completely Sufficient,

 

for even this.