IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL
Every year at Christmas my family and I gather around a beautiful Blue Spruce Tree that stands tall beside my Grandma’s bedroom window. It shines bright with the colors of the Christmas lights and we all hold hands and sing It Is Well With My Soul in honor of my Grandfather. My Dad always lead us into the song. I don’t know who will lead us this year and this year will be a little more difficult for as we sing in honor of Grandpa we will also sing for Dad as well. I am not sure the words will come out well, but we will sing with every ounce of love and strength we have.
My Uncle Doug sent me the you tube video of the story behind the song. It is a story of strength which inspires me to stay strong during this time of year and focus on those that have gone before us. As we hold hands they are in each others arms looking at all of us knowing that they are leading us through our journies one by one and it is well with my soul.
Love you Dad 
As we walk this life and search for the truth, and hang from the threads of our strength, and look for the cable of that will hold us when all things seem to fail us, and break us. As we cling to the belief that there is more then our minds can feel, and we beg for the comfort of the peace we deserve, but trust our minds to touch our hearts with the love attached by the strength of cotton candy. As we seem to fail over, and over, the light of Jesus continue to shine, the cable of his strength is there to hold us without question, without conditions, without limits, and is endless.
Let go of your cotton candy, and hold the cable of love.
love always
MC says: Id rather run a life time in the shadows of the lights of GODS moons and stars, then to be warmed once by the light of mans fires.
is it illegal to shout cats in Indiana?
dam cat
The wick of my candle flickers as it starves to survive the mind of its life. It fights the mass of confusion trying to drowned it as it burns. It wants so much to shine bright enough to light up its world, but it has chosen to shroud itself in all the garbage of life that lets it look pretty in the wax of its death, and it will not stop burning till it shines with the love of GOD.
LOVE ALWAYS
i woke up today with what felt like a renewed spirit. My first thought was maybe it was the cry i had yesterday, but then i thought maybe it was because i was so tired i feel asleep at 10:00 and didn’t wake till 8:oo today. I cant remember the last time i did that, usually i get up 7 or 8 times a night to pee, or i just cant sleep, but last night i slept hard and even dreamed.
It felt good today, the first thing i did was put Christmas music on my computer, and then i told my brother of my dream. It wasn’t much of a dream, but it was enough to keep a smile on my face all day.
In my dream I was standing at Andy’s desk at work, and we were talking about unimportant stuff then i look out the big plate glass window of my business and there stood Cliff with a big ass grin,and i said to Andy looky there its Cliff. With that big grin Cliff gave one of those muscle builder hercules poises that he would do if he lost five pounds on a diet. My dream left me there, but in my dream i tried to return to my dream, and i must not have, but today i look out my window all day and felt good.
I dont know if i felt good today because of my cry, because of my woman in a funny hat, my brother in my dreams, or just because i had a good nights sleep, but I’m ready want any of them tonight
love always
BY THE WAY, that was a beautiful post Mindy, and whether any one else ever dances with us, we’re dancing a dance that your daddy danced and is still dancing with us baby.
love you so much, Uncle Doug
I hope all of you have an amazing Christmas and New Year. I know I will do my best to stay strong and focus on my little girls face as she opens her presents on Christmas day, but I will not hold back the tears. It is much more difficult trying to hold them back rather than just letting them flood my soul. I realize now just how difficult this day can be for people who have lost someone they love soo much.
Doug, I love the thought of Dad doing his famous hercules pose. It is a memory that fills my soul. I seem to be thinking about him a great deal today. Lots of memories are flooding my mind. I guess I am preparing myself for the holidays as I am sure others are doing.
Dad I thought that MC and clucky would like this poem!!
The Owl And The Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!’
II
Pussy said to the Owl, ‘You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?’
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
III
‘Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?’Said the Piggy,’I will.’
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
Awh Sarah, now you got MC so missing Clucky.
Love you baby girl.
As winter snows blanket the earth like a pure white burial tunic of life that has been, we give pause to renewed life to come. As heavenly tears fall in frozen crystals of sparkling beauty covering the footprints of those who have walked before, leaving only the footprints of those who walk now, soon to melt, and reveal the footprints left on our hearts, we give thanks for the Son.
I love the first snow of winter.
Love always
The story of the song, “It Is Well……” is a wonderful one. Makes us all thankful we have the family members we have today. Blessings to Cliff’s “tribe” at this season.
I miss snow.