Love like you are running out of time

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Love like you are running out of time

On Sunday I went to a funeral. My friend Denise spoke so beautifully about David that I asked for her remarks so I could paint them.

I’ve long observed - our greatest joys in this life are family relationships. I’ve also long observed - our greatest grief and pain come from family relationships.

Denise said that she believed David would say -

LOVE LIKE YOU’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME

be SLOW TO ANGER

QUICK TO FORGIVE

HAVE MERCY

David wasn’t particularly religious, but he was spiritual. He had written in a red-letter bible (did you know a red-letter bible is a bible that highlights all of the words Jesus said in red? I didn’t!) that he had figured something out. If this was it - amen, David. Amen.

It reminds me a favorite poem, The Summer Day:

Tell me, what else should I have done?Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver

Amy ❣️

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