all that i am

all that i am
the feast of the Assumption


today's prayer...

Mary has left death behind her
she is totally clothed in life
she is taken up body and soul
into God's glory
and thus placed in glory
after overcoming death
she says to us 
Take heart
it is love that wins in the end! 
           Pope Benedict XVI


....May we see heaven as our final goal...


yesterday at mass 'the girls' sang
David Haas' "Magnificat"
and
"We Walk by Faith, and not by sight"
and the tears just flowed...


so much
so fast
       a whirlwind  
  
the years since this blog began...
{named after the lovely Magnificat refrain}


the years since it all began
       for us
       a wedding
       babies
       sweet baby days
       one
       two
       days at the pool
       back to school
       eighteen
       twenty four out of the house
       out of the country
       out of our life
       out of sorts


everything whirling by
only the cyclone remains ever permanently still
even the PRT is back up and running
another year of round and round on it's ceaseless track
       
and here we are
where another summer ends
       carrots on the counter
       and peach cobbler in the oven
fall begins
in just another month
       there's a trip to the beach
       and  do does... another drive across the country!
       {to  Seattle}
       
another month and a half before the new life together begins
       a wedding
       a dress
       tuxes and toys
       a son in law
       added to a daughter in law
       and before we know it 
       it'll all begin again
       babies
       sweet baby days
       one
       two
       eighteen
       twenty four
       out the door

bim moves this weekend
       grad school
the nephew's family moves next weekend
       and begins their third year of married life 
       in the home of their dreams
coco moves gradually 
       merging their things
       so that they can...live together!!!
       after their honeymoon....in their 'newlywed house'


and then do's big move to far away
       
it's happened all too fast
it's all I can do to grasp and hold on
to comprehend
or not


if I could...would I have changed anything/everything?


would I have found that little barn house on the cliff
overlooking the sea 
renovating and painting
and being just by myself 
me
instead


but then
I would miss these two arms that hold me close
in the night 
when the  whirling and spinning of days into years does not stop


America's TODAY'S THE DAY
Hold me close 
You turn nighttime into day
And you're the most
Brightest star that lights my way

So come home to me now
'Cause it won't matter anyhow
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day

Turn me out
Turn me out on this fine day
'Cause all about
All the people like to play

So come home to me now
'Cause it won't matter anyhow
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day

Hold me close
You turn nighttime into day
And you're the most
Brightest star that lights my way

So come home to me now
'Cause it won't matter anyhow
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day ...America's TODAY'S THE DAYall that i am