Today is Tuesday, November 21st, 2006; Karen's Korner #937
When we traveled across Tennessee last month, Jim and I stopped at my Uncle Bud and Aunt Tillie's home -eating lunch together, spending the afternoon, and traveling to meet up with another aunt, Carol Mae for supper. The day would have been their older son, Mark's, 50th birthday. Mark had passed away a handful of days earlier after a multi-year struggle with multiple sclerosis.
Bud and Tillie shared a poem that was written by Mark's friend, Kathy Pippin, and it is fitting for more than just their family:
Thy Will Be Done
When things aren't they way I would wish them to be
When struggle and strife overwhelm
When storm of the heart keeps battering me
Grown weak now, my hand on the helm
As cringe of the soul becomes common place
New nature and not passer by
Tis time to grow still, and turn up my face
To the One far greater than I.
Is not mine to know in the whole of the thing
Why the trials are given to each
Enough to let go all the sorrow I bring
And listen for what He would teach
In trust moving on, taking life as it is
Giving thanks for both sunshine and rain
Knowing it's safe, that the outcome is His
I'm released from the worry and pain.
-- Kathy Flippin
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