Your Dying Spouse 599 - DONKEY! {FMF}

OK, I have Barb's permission for this one. Otherwise, I'm a lot sooner a dead man than otherwise.

The other day she found a strand of hair in her bangs that was rather longer than the rest, and asked me to cut it.

She's brave.

Anyway, she stretched it out, I cut it, and when the tension on the hair was thus released, down came her hand on my rather sensitive upper-abdomen, which nearly dropped me to my knees.

"Damn!" she said, mortified. "I feel like such an ass!"

And with my reply, she has thus entered the Shrek pantheon.

No lasting harm was done, and the laugh we got out of the new nickname put paid to her beating herself up over self-perceived 'carelessness'. It's just life; things happen.

Wherever life takes you, you're always being measured for a nickname, and measure is the Five Minute Friday Prompt this week.

And she trusted me to trim her hair!

I really don't like being fragile;

touch me wrong and I might die.

Far better to be strong and agile,

leap the chasm, grab the sky!

But delicate's my lot today

and maybe not all bad

because in weakness comes the way

to depend on Jesus' Dad.

I have to say it breeds compassion

for those far worse off than me

and, after some transcendental fashion

makes me care for an enemy.

As painful as this race has run,

I'd wish it not on anyone.

So let's be Livin' La Vida Loca with Donkey and Puss, from Shrek 2.

Thanks to Carol Ashby, Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart is back on Kindle, and will be available in paperback soon.

Friends are everything. I couldn't have done it.

Marley, the canine waif from Afghanistan, whom WE helped save, has a Facebook page! Please drop by to see how happy he is today.

Below are my recent releases on Kindle -please excuse their presence in the body of the blog. I haven't the energy to get them up as 'buttons' in the sidebar. You can click on the covers to go to the Amazon links.

Your Dying Spouse 598 - The Grace He Brings

I suppose it's inevitable, that you finally come to a place where your strength can't carry you any more, where all of the motivational tricks fall flat, and where even will becomes a very slender reed.

And that is where you find youself standing on bedrock.

There is no place of refuge,

there is nowhere to run;

no shelter from the deluge,

no shade against the sun.

You cannot call for mercy

from demons' ripping claws

and when strength deserts thee

there shall be no pause.

The days are never-ending,

the nights are longer still,

no point in now pretending

that former steadfast will.

Here at the end of things

hearts open for the Grace He brings.

Music from Manafest, with Every Time You Run.

Thanks to Carol Ashby, Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart is back on Kindle, and will be available in paperback soon.

Friends are everything. I couldn't have done it.

Marley, the canine waif from Afghanistan, whom WE helped save, has a Facebook page! Please drop by to see how happy he is today.

Below are my recent releases on Kindle -please excuse their presence in the body of the blog. I haven't the energy to get them up as 'buttons' in the sidebar. You can click on the covers to go to the Amazon links.

Your Dying Spouse 597 - He Is With You

The worse things get, the more I know...

...I am not alone.

Turn, and face the music.

Turn, and face your fear.

You sense with ev'ry clock-tick

that death is drawing near.

You dread the loss of morning

and the lease-hold of the night

and the unbidden though a-borning

that you will lose this fight.

The road you walk is lonely

but you are not alone

and the chill you feel is only

the ague of flesh and bone.

Your heart was meant for more than this,

salvation bought through Judas' kiss.

Music from Mandisa; He Is With You.

Thanks to Carol Ashby, Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart is back on Kindle, and will be available in paperback soon.

Friends are everything. I couldn't have done it.

Marley, the canine waif from Afghanistan, whom WE helped save, has a Facebook page! Please drop by to see how happy he is today.

Below are my recent releases on Kindle -please excuse their presence in the body of the blog. I haven't the energy to get them up as 'buttons' in the sidebar. You can click on the covers to go to the Amazon links.

Your Dying Spouse 596 - The Reward {FMF}

The pain you bear,

the fear you hold,

the falling tear

from an eye yet bold

will keep you true

to these dying dreams

and see you through

this vale of screams.

I know it well,

this place I roam;

you may call it hell

but I call it home.

Impaled by cancer's flaming sword

this deadly fight's its own reward.

Nothing Is Over.

Thanks to Carol Ashby, Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart is back on Kindle, and will be available in paperback soon.

Friends are everything. I couldn't have done it.

Marley, the canine waif from Afghanistan, whom WE helped save, has a Facebook page! Please drop by to see how happy he is today.

Below are my recent releases on Kindle -please excuse their presence in the body of the blog. I haven't the energy to get them up as 'buttons' in the sidebar. You can click on the covers to go to the Amazon links.

Your Dying Spouse 595 - The First Day Of Spring

It was almost like the old days;

it was almost like a song,

before my life went sideways

and everything went wrong.

It started before sunrise,

dawn greeted by the birds,

telling of the day's surprise

in a chorus without words.

My buried hope arising,

expectation near awake

and a spirit, enterprising

to repair a lost heartache.

It's been years since I felt a lift

like this morning's spirit-gift.

Music from Barry Manilow, with Daybreak.

Thanks to Carol Ashby, Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart is back on Kindle, and will be available in paperback soon.

Friends are everything. I couldn't have done it.

Marley, the canine waif from Afghanistan, whom WE helped save, has a Facebook page! Please drop by to see how happy he is today.

Below are my recent releases on Kindle -please excuse their presence in the body of the blog. I haven't the energy to get them up as 'buttons' in the sidebar. You can click on the covers to go to the Amazon links.