Oct. 24 Mary Sue Edwards passed away. It was a Sunday morning and I had got up late for church. On my way to the door I was greeted by my friend Manny. It was uncommon for me to see him on a Sunday morning and there was a grave look in his eye. It was a numb feeling, it was not a sharp pain that one might think it would be, more of a swelling friction that slowly overshadowed me. He offered me a ride back home, we rode in silence. It was a hard day but everyone in my family had to get through it. This Christmas will be the first without a grandparent on my mothers side. This year my be the last year that my family spends Christmas Eve at Mama Sue's house.
Today I wrote a song that really displays my emotions regarding Christmas:
We sleep beneath the red and white
we read under the Christmas lights
and from that subtle glow
we think and now we know
it the end of the year
and the first one without you we'll know
We will carry on, we'll send our love in song to you
like the baby Jesus Christ you came down here to die
this year
we're sure now of a time when you'll hold your hand in our's again
on an eternal shore no goodbyes anymore
like this year
We will sing our Christmas songs
keep joy inside our broken hearts
when we read those words aloud
we'll know without a doubt
there's a love that cannot die
and he lives in you and I
this year
- Merry Christmas
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