FOR YOU DAD

Mindy Aug 13th 2009 08:16 am Contributors 19 Comments Trackback URI Comments RSS

19 Responses to “FOR YOU DAD”

  1. Mindyon 13 Aug 2009 at 10:06 am link comment

    I apologize for being so sappy this week, but apparantly I need to be. I made this video for my family, but I want to share it with all of you. I hope you can see it. I couldn’t get it to pop up automatically so just click on the link and it will take you to you tube to share the video.
    I miss my Dad soo much and this week has been a very emotional one. Bold Grace has been an outlet for me to get these emotions out. It feels better when I share myself with others and I am thankful that I can be open and honest with all of you who are reading. I am also blessed with an amazing family. We love each other very much and the funny thing is that when one of us is having a bad day we all are having a bad day. We are connected and I believe that is the working of our Lishy.
    I love you all! Thank you :)

  2. Lisa Perryon 13 Aug 2009 at 10:28 am link comment

    Thanks Mindy so much for this blessing! I smiled through my tears! Love you all!!

  3. Bruceon 13 Aug 2009 at 6:00 pm link comment

    Loved it! Love you!

  4. Dougon 13 Aug 2009 at 6:19 pm link comment

    No sorries MINDY, nOT THIS WEEK OR NEXT, u r the BaBY girl ur DaddY RASIED u 2 B, UR SA,PPy iS liKE TAST,ING NecTOR Of a maple Tree.

    loVE aLWAYs

  5. SteveWon 13 Aug 2009 at 6:25 pm link comment

    Great video of a great family. Love you all.

  6. Don Ron 13 Aug 2009 at 7:21 pm link comment

    Helped me move a little closer to a friend I never met.

  7. Michelleon 13 Aug 2009 at 9:19 pm link comment

    Don’t apologize for being sappy, Mindy! You can be sappy all you want. Your father was your father and he was a great, well-loved man. You miss him! Many of us do.

    My father has been gone since 1984. I still get sappy and I still have those days. I always try to appreciate and enjoy the memories. I still talk to him and wonder about life with him, but I have been fortunate enough to meet many great people like your father. They have helped create memories for me that I will cherish forever. Some memories that I did not get to create with my own father….like when I got married. Your dad was there! :) Some people really leave footsteps on your heart. Your father was that kind of man.

    I loved the video! I know I hardly ever see you, but I have great memories of you when I was a kid. I think about you often and I love you dearly.

    Thank you again for sharing! Keep your spirits up! :)

  8. Mindyon 13 Aug 2009 at 9:36 pm link comment

    Thank you :)
    Michelle,
    Thank you for your words. They were words I needed to hear. Comforting and kind. Love ya girl!

  9. Mindyon 14 Aug 2009 at 10:40 am link comment

    This experience is crazy!! I have felt so lonely this week, but today is a good day. Last night I talked to God and my Dad like they were both sitting next to me. When I took a deep breath, closed my eyes and let the breeze sweep across my face I could feel them. I know that may sound strange to some, but I believe in this process it is something you HAVE to do. You have to open yourself up to the earth and all its glory. I looked at the trees swaying in the wind, I listened to all the chirping of the crickets and locust and the croaking of the frogs and toads. I watched a bat fly around the front yard. I watched my little girl walk around the front porch in high heel shoes.LOL!! I listened to my husband talk about his day at work and I sat in silence taking it all in. I kept thinking to myself, “I know what you are trying to tell me Dad.” :) This process is difficult, but if I pay attention I know they are walking beside me every step of my journey.

  10. Dougon 14 Aug 2009 at 11:19 am link comment

    “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. 18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the dead.”
    There is a false comfort to live in the fringe of reality, it is only when you stare directly throw the window of God beautiful glory that you can see “The tree of life”.

    Love always

  11. Dougon 14 Aug 2009 at 5:25 pm link comment

    For the last couple of hours, as my wife cleans the carpet. I have been exiled to my deck to bask in the beautiful sun and contemplate the wrath i will endure the next time i walk into the house with muddy feet. Instead of lingering in fear of the inevitable, I chose to admire the beauty of life. As i sat there i was enchanted by the dance of a butterfly as it went from flower to flower, and it brought to mind something i read a while back.
    I doubt if i will qoute it right , but this is what i remember.
    “Souls in the state of transition are like, butterflies in there chrysalis”

    What a wonderful thought that there is a time our soul can break from its hard encasement and be free to feel the beauty of Christ. I know that this transition happens always at the razor edge moment of death, and everlasting life, but i also think it happens the moment after you know that your more then you were before.

    I will retreat now again to my deck and contemplate to true fears of life.

    Love alway

  12. Dougon 14 Aug 2009 at 6:03 pm link comment

    Ive snuck in again. This is more of a question then a comment. What are the seven consciousness of Christ?

  13. Dougon 14 Aug 2009 at 9:36 pm link comment

    There is the day of endless task
    The moment of clouded view
    The beauty of perfect love
    The restricted time of the not known

    Eyes glazed with truth unknown
    Cheeks gray wanting to feel
    Dancing in shadows of forests
    Silent leaves leaving u lonely

    Pale hearts whisper wanting words
    Resounding in a silent cries
    A soft hand touches the perfect
    Messages for the one and only

    Winds caressing dampend eyes
    Suns warming cold hearts
    Leaves of love screaming to you
    You are you are you are
    The one and only

    For my sis Nancy

    Love always

  14. Nancyon 14 Aug 2009 at 10:19 pm link comment

    I love you Doug!

  15. Dougon 15 Aug 2009 at 12:50 am link comment

    Our darkness is pointed and piercing. Mine is a day in February. A Saturday , i was alone at my business, listening to Enya on my computer and sulking within my own pitiful unworthy pity about things unimportant.
    My brother Cliff stop by to say hi, and i unloaded all my troubles on him. He stood patiently and listened till i was done. He said very little, but gave me a smile of comfort as he said goodbye.
    The rest of my day was uneventful, i did what i normally do, expecting nothing, with the exception of noting in my mind that my brother looked gray and tired.
    As brothers we have never parted saying, “I love you”. I guess its because it was an accepted fact.
    That night my phone rang, it was Cliff, he just wanted to tell me he , “Loved me”.

    “Say what you need to say, with open arms”

    Love always

  16. TitforTaton 15 Aug 2009 at 7:24 pm link comment

    Thanks, sometimes I miss the simple fact that we all have a life.

  17. Dougon 16 Aug 2009 at 8:23 pm link comment

    My adventure into this mystical and magical world of exploring the heart of Jesus has been somewhat like a purple martin on the eve of a summer night, darting from one opportunity to another.
    Its been a beautiful journey so far, but as most of you know i started with only one true belief, and that was that, God gave his son so that i would be saved.
    My resent thought have been how deep, how clear, how close am i to understanding the message of JESUS. How conscious am i? We all seem to believe in different ways that we know God. We all agree that God knows us, but do we know him in the same way as we know the date that Columbus found America?
    My resent quest has been to understand the the levels of consciousness that we have of the one fact that we all seem to believe, “THAT WE KNOW GOD”.
    I ask the question “what are the seven consciousness of Christ? I can tell you i dont even know if there are seven, but i read there were. I wasn’t able to get an answer from you or from anywhere else, but i did come to some conclusions.
    My main conclusion is that we are all at different stages in our consciousness with the ultimate goal of truly knowing God.
    Based on what I’ve read, what i believe, and most importantly what i feel, i will share what i think is the levels consciousness of where I’ve been and where i want to go.

    1 THE UNBELIEVER
    The place where you can mimic what others speak of but see a tree as a tree, and believe the world is yours to own.

    2 PRIMITIVE BELIEVER
    You will see God in the flowers , the clouds, beautiful mountains.

    3 TRUE BELIEVER

    You believe in a God of compassion, love and forgiveness, but also inwrath vengeance, and destruction.

    4 SPRITUALY TOUCHED
    You began to realize that God is with in you, I believe this is triggered by something unexpected (a brothers death?)

    5 THE KNOWING
    There is no question that there is more to know, and that you can access it.

    6 ONENNESS
    I cant speak to this I am not there, but i hope to be.

    7 ONE
    With GOD.

    As Ive told you i will enjoy my journey with out fear, enjoy yours.

    Love always

  18. Dougon 16 Aug 2009 at 9:22 pm link comment

    Get over it there is no more comings of God. how many sons dose he have to send.
    Christ is in you as you walk and breath, he is hidden in your heart, no one else can show him to you. All u need to do is know.

  19. Dougon 16 Aug 2009 at 11:08 pm link comment

    I CAN DANCE THIS DANCE ALONE.

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