Joining with
the writing flash mob that is Five Minute Friday at the home of the lovely Lisa Jo Baker. #FMFparty
Five minutes on: small
It’s funny as the generations carry on we all get slightly
bigger. Not unlike Russian dolls, a slightly larger version of what has gone before. All
starting off from small.
The children all tower over me now.
The children all tower over me now.
I come from a line of small women on Dad’s side. Nanna was
just shy of five feet and Nanny (great
grandma) was even smaller. Nanny died when I was very young and for years I
thought she was kept in the wooden hinged box in the loft room at Nanna’s. Such was the small mind
concept of death at the time. It took years to realise that was not true.
The last time I saw Nanna she was curled in a foetal ball on
the hospital bed, sleeping peacefully, breathing softly. I kissed the small,
fragile, woman-child goodbye one last time, she resting in womb-secureness,
just before she stepped over the threshold and into the light.
Dear Jo
ReplyDeleteI have the exact set of these dolls. Yes, it sometimes seems so nice to be the smallest to hide deep in the middle of the bunch. But that is not wise for we all need to learn how to hide our lives in Jesus alone!
Blessings XX
Mia