Joining with
the community that is Five Minute Friday with the lovely Lisa Jo Baker. We like to write, not for comments or traffic or anyone
else’s agenda. But for pure love of the written word. For joy at the sound of
syllables, sentences and paragraphs all strung together by the voice of the
speaker.
Five minutes on BRAVE
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Every
person in that place held their breath as you made your way slowly to the front
of the church. You turned and stood to face us and sing with a voice weakened by
chemical battles, reedy but clear:
Amazing grace
how sweet the sound
That saved a
wretch like me
I once was
lost but now am found
Was blind but
now I see
Not
a dry eye or heart in that place as the words soared above us all. The waters
of baptism gently washed over you and all our souls that day.
Some
would say that was a brave performance, not technically perfect. But perfect
would have been so wrong and not at all brave.
And
later when your body was even weaker and threatening to leave this earth, and your parents cried out, God
stepped down and showed me in a moment that bravery is sometimes to walk away
from fighting. To stop engaging in pointless power battles.
Oh
how I wish it had not been that way, that you would have lived a long life.
But
then I doubt if any of us would have looked upon any truer bravery, grit, determination
and the face of Jesus.
And
we would be all the poorer and more wretched for it.
In
memory of W who died age 14 years
Beautiful. Tears before breakfast.
ReplyDeleteAwesomely beautiful post, bless you.
ReplyDeletea great loss, a great one ...
ReplyDeleteLinda
Thank you sharing this. You've touched my heart this afternoon. Blessings to you.
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