Gold Coast, Australia
New stories update on 29 May 2010
New stories update on 29 May 2010
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Leave your Mark our enduring worth
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A Note for You
...from Graham and Bev (continued)
Life has an ebb and flow to it and what can appear impossible hurdles are temporary and, with the passage of time, the light of wisdom shines in us from experiencing not just the brilliantly good but the sometimes extraordinarily painful.
Too often we measure ourselves by what we see as perfect in others when there is just who we are right now with all our strengths and weaknesses which, rolled together, make us unique and the only one of a kind - A Work in Progress.
Tragedy + Time = Laughter (at the ridiculous in life) + Joy (being thankful for the good times) + Peace (life can blow me over but it can’t take me out).
Tomorrow is a new day, every day and you never know what adventure is just around the corner for you♥
Bev D
Light through Clouds, Burleigh Heads
Love is Stronger than death
...how love is timeless and forever
My Dad died when I was 22. He was in hospital when I was young and my parents divorced. When I was 13, he was back in my life and we’d meet sometimes on Sunday afternoons.
I was 35 when I pulled out some
old photos - the ones at the beach
with tiny tot me and him with a
silly Dad grin. Another snap, I am taking the photo and he is smiling at me. I remember a music concert and him tapping his foot so everyone nearly fell off their seats with Dad bouncing us around, lovin’ the music.
I look back at his life and see great courage and perseverance through enormous adversity. He was enthusiastic and loved life, was excited to see me and really listened. He walked his talk and encouraged many others.
I see myself in his genetic code and spirit passed on to me somehow. I don’t have memories of sitting on his knee as a child. I have searched for his character and see his persistence reflected in my life - a great strength and annoying as well - to keep going - forcing myself back onto my feet. His enthusiasm and living a free-spirited life have grown like seeds, firmly planted, working their way into my life.
One night, reading my favourite book, these words spoke to me. “I believe that Love is stronger than death” and realised though I couldn’t talk to my Dad, he still goes on. Like he’s “on holidays on an island and there’s no phone”. But the memories of what he would say and how he thinks - it’s a part of me.
When my Stepfather, Alan, passed away, I recall walking into the hospice room where he was lying on the bed and witnessing the very physical act of his spirit leaving his worn out body, something I had never seen before. I felt the unexplainable, tangible presence of his personality and spirit still in the room with us. It is a picture simply remembered of my Stepfather's spirit leaving a container which was past its usefulness and so left behind as he journeyed on.
I did not lose my Dad or his love. It’s in my heart and his face - blurred with time now - smiles at me. I know what his love feels like on the inside and live in the circle of his love and there is peace in knowing out in the great somewhere he is smiling.
So if someone loved by you - a friend, someone you feel close to, a mum, dad or stepfather, a sister or brother, a partner or your one true love - has passed away from this life, you have not lost them - they are just "away from the phone" - but you know exactly what they would say, what their love feels like, their laughter, their smile and how it feels when they listen to you.
Take heart, for the love and laughter between you is not gone - it is still there and it is timeless for both of you.
You see
Love truly IS stronger than death♥
(Story by Bev D in Sunshine Coast Daily News in 2006)
View of Surfers Paradise from Burleigh
Sunset at Carrara, Gold Coast
Magnolia Exmouth
Leave Your Mark
...our enduring worth
The only thing of enduring worth we leave behind when we pass out
of this life is the mark of value we deposit in the hearts and minds of
people - the watching children, our colleagues and partners - both men and women - and the sons and daughters who are so courageous in their fight to assume the mantle of who they wish to become and in the struggle to be heard.
For every little heart that is healed, it is a gift to God.
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© 2010 Copyright www.aworkinprogress.com.au. Stories by Bev D. Photos by Graham D. Website by Bev D. The Authors, Graham and Bev, assert the moral right to be identified as the Authors of this work. No part of this website may be reproduced and published without the prior written permission of the Authors. All rights reserved.
© 2010 Copyright www.aworkinprogress.com.au. Stories by Bev D. Photos by Graham D. Website by Bev D. The Authors, Graham and Bev, assert the moral right to be identified as the Authors of this work. No part of this website may be reproduced and published without the prior written permission of the Authors. All rights reserved.