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Hi Joanie! x:0D<br /><br />Hi Joanie! xPen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-12842360611118316232010-12-08T17:46:35.957+00:002010-12-08T17:46:35.957+00:00My dad died on Christmas dad 1997. It was the day...My dad died on Christmas dad 1997. It was the day I also count as my spiritual rebirth. The culmination of my long journey to Christ occured after I spent those 2 weeks he was dying in the hospital coming to THE understanding.<br /><br />Men are strange creatures sometimes, so lots of dads are!! It is much talked about - the fact men often have trouble dealing with their feelings. My dad certainly did. I am surrounded by men who definitely have no problem expressing their feelings, who love to hug and talk deep. One of the funniest memories was of my husband, a big brawny guy, picking up my little dad and hugging him - I forget what the holiday was or the event, but we hadn't visited in a while. I thought he would pass out from shock!! He laughed, though. <br />Joaniejoaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06786607020220841570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-16260960482593310282010-12-07T23:35:30.793+00:002010-12-07T23:35:30.793+00:00Hi Anna - John WImber was one of the best preacher...Hi Anna - John WImber was one of the best preachers I ever heard. He came to England with his Signs and Wonders tour, and I just loved him. He was Christ's man; humble, funny, honest, kind - full of love and faith.Pen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-76598448490232009532010-12-07T23:32:59.974+00:002010-12-07T23:32:59.974+00:00Hi Amber - how beautiful! Thank you! xxxHi Amber - how beautiful! Thank you! xxxPen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-65458791695985390462010-12-07T18:19:44.214+00:002010-12-07T18:19:44.214+00:00John Wimber - wow, you knew who he was! I was in t...John Wimber - wow, you knew who he was! I was in that circle of fellowship for several years.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11726695185559261264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-56081277619378021762010-12-07T12:51:11.017+00:002010-12-07T12:51:11.017+00:00Poem for Dad
I wrote this the eve my Daddy died)
...Poem for Dad<br />I wrote this the eve my Daddy died)<br /><br />Today<br /><br />All the white petals fell from the rose<br /><br />My beautiful rose.<br /><br />And all that was left of the strong stem <br /><br />Was an invisible spiral aspiring heaven bound<br /><br />Like an umbilicus <br /><br />Connecting the clay to beyond the stars.Amberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01644554358904840837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-32214429408372142612010-12-07T08:08:00.182+00:002010-12-07T08:08:00.182+00:00Hi Christine - nice to meet you!
:0)Hi Christine - nice to meet you!<br /><br />:0)Pen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-84409907648252154962010-12-07T02:00:18.464+00:002010-12-07T02:00:18.464+00:00I have been thinking of my father a lot. We weren...I have been thinking of my father a lot. We weren't close either but last year I made my peace with him and last April he passed away. I miss him, or what he could and should have been, but know he did the best he knew how as we all do. It has been tough lately and even more so that it seems no one understands.<br /><br />God bless you. I enjoy your writings.<br /><br />http://proverbs31-27.blogspot.com/dizzijoihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15542763951432159793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-17801923270985239082010-12-06T22:47:27.798+00:002010-12-06T22:47:27.798+00:00Ganeida. Hello my friend. xGaneida. Hello my friend. xPen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-80783243619584951582010-12-06T22:44:00.149+00:002010-12-06T22:44:00.149+00:00Does one resolve grief? One moves on, of course, ...Does one resolve grief? One moves on, of course, but suddenly, out of the blue, depths of grief for the father I wasn't even thinking of a moment ago & whose relationship with me was so difficult & fraught the only way to maintain any equilibrium at all was to put up a barrier of polite civility without closeness. Yet he remains: traces in my children's faces; in their likes & dislikes; in the gifts they have. My Star, with whom I am so close, is so like him it's scary. Go figure.<br /><br />I do know it has made my relationsip with God unnecessarily difficult ~ but that is another story. It is indifference, not hate, that is the opposite of love. Far too often for comfort love & hate are the same thing. I'm not sure we are condemned for either our loving or our hating. Remember Laodecia? The great sin is indifference. <br /><br />As I grow older the more I think we can only do what we can do given who we are to start with & for each of us that will be something different & bring different regrets, different challenges. I don't opeate the way most people do on any level but I am blessed that my husband & children write it off as another *mummy quirk* & just acccept that that's the way it works round here.<br /><br />I think I'm waffling. You've probably hit a nerve. Will go away now. Have a very blessed Christmas full of love & simple delights & the Christ~light brightly burning.Ganeidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17176246964466185315noreply@blogger.com