another year has passed and my wee brother is 31 today... which makes me...older...
happy birthday bro.
i get to see the man himself in less than a month, along with his beautiful ladeez.
in the meantime i'm relishing hanging with joodles. all is chilled and calm and we're having a lovely time.
so i'm celebrating the joy of these two wonderful folks, whom i love so dearly...
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on a sadder note...
got news last night of another suicide within the wider community... not someone i knew but known to some i love...
we keep on living with hope in the face of loss and tragedy around us by not entering into the darkness of others so much that we lose sight of life. empathy rightly has its limits. and if god is love and love is god, then hell is the place where love is absent. there is no such thing as hope in hell. when others are there, it is not good for us to descend into that place. hold onto life, and hope. there are some places you cannot or should not follow others. hell is one such place. stay here. where there is light. and love. and life. live in hope. it's how we keep each other going. it's how we keep anchored, even in the face of horror and tragedy.
it will come...
LB,x
Happy Birthday to your brother... raising a glass here as it's my husbands birthday too...
ReplyDeleteindeed stay in the place where there is light and life and hope and love,
take care, RD,x
thanks for that cary. very wise words.
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