2003 The Best Thing I Did...Kaile's Challenge

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nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines

0 posted 2003-12-31 05:56 AM

2003 The Best Thing I Did...

I learned to let anger slide
until its meaning turned to a consoling of spirit,
allowing the presence of an affair, and a loss of love
to set me on a course of strengthening my resolve
to never act upon that kind of hurt again.

In its place, confrontation is gone,
tears are no longer wasted and words have replaced
the emptiness in my heart.

I have learned this year, prefaced by the few before,
that all God's prayers cannot be answered
and that though not triumphant in the healing of my sister,
he has brought us closer together than I have ever remembered,
the competitiveness gone, similar memories rekindled
even those taking place in a childhood but seven years apart.

I have learned as of yesterday that despite a liver donor found,
that could save one life that has been waiting three long years,
its need must now go to the next on the list, as another affliction,
has ruled it no longer an option...
and instead of feeling anger and dismay, my sister and I know
that someone else will live because she has been handed
the shorter term of life.

Maureen

*Kaile, this may not be exactly what you mean...but it is all this year has meant to me.

"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
(Will Moss)

[This message has been edited by nakdthoughts (12-31-2003 12:30 PM).]

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

1 posted 2003-12-31 09:42 AM

OhMaureen~
God, what a tender heart-pour~

I hold you and your sister in daily prayer~
Love you, my friend~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram
noles1@totcon.com

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

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Between the Lines

2 posted 2003-12-31 10:09 AM

Thank You, Marge...been a tough year, with still more to come. But I am surviving it with calm and having the flu does something to prevent you from getting too excited anyway

love and hugs
M

[This message has been edited by nakdthoughts (12-31-2003 10:11 AM).]

passing shadows
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displaced

3 posted 2003-12-31 12:25 PM

I wish I could be there

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

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Canada eh.

4 posted 2003-12-31 12:30 PM

Maureen, it has been such a difficult year for you.
And, you have stood by and cared for your sister with amazing strength.
I wish you much needed peace and happiness in 2004.
~Heart Hugs, Nancy~

In the midst of winter..
I found there lives within me,
an invincible summer.

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

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Eternity

5 posted 2003-12-31 12:43 PM

Dear Maureen, this is very touching, thank you for sharing your heart. Through so much pain you have grown in strength.
May the New Year shower you and your sister with abundant blessings.
Love and hugs. Margherita

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

6 posted 2003-12-31 03:28 PM

Later, perhaps, my friend,
you will feel the wisdom of this write
quilt you warmly on some cold night...

It is an excellent response to Kaile's challenge.

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