Comments on: Time Be Still http://www.monasmusings.com/372/ Mona's posts and podcasts share how to create and sustain married love: follow her romantic twist on a turn abroad... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:08:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: mona http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-309 mona Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:08:51 +0000 http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-309 Angie: I'm so delighted that you found Musings! It means so much to me -- I admire you very much. Thank you for coming with your dad to the funeral. You were such a support to us and your very presence was such a tribute to Dad. I love you! Angie: I’m so delighted that you found Musings! It means so much to me — I admire you very much. Thank you for coming with your dad to the funeral. You were such a support to us and your very presence was such a tribute to Dad. I love you!

]]> By: Angie Davis http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-307 Angie Davis Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:25:38 +0000 http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-307 Your fan, daughter and obvious supporter, sent me your blog information. What a godsend. Your writings regarding Uncle Ken's passing certainly add clarity. I feel truly blessed to have an amazing extended family and look forward to an eternity of "get to know you moments". Bless you & Dale. Your fan, daughter and obvious supporter, sent me your blog information. What a godsend. Your writings regarding Uncle Ken’s passing certainly add clarity. I feel truly blessed to have an amazing extended family and look forward to an eternity of “get to know you moments”. Bless you & Dale.

]]> By: mona http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-259 mona Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:03:16 +0000 http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-259 Bless you all for your consoling thoughts. I continue to need them. Bless you all for your consoling thoughts. I continue to need them.

]]> By: Kim Anderson http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-257 Kim Anderson Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:55:46 +0000 http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-257 Ramona, your words are so touching with so much meaning. One cannot read it without absorbing advice from what you are going through. Time marches on, its like reading a book chapter to chapter. Now your life is in a new chapter. Try to understand it, and look for something new and good that will embrace you through it and onto the next chapter. As you step through the waterfall I pray the lord will shower you with peace, and the ability to live through this difficult time with a new found happy and healthy heart. Kim Anderson Ramona, your words are so touching with so much meaning. One cannot read it without absorbing advice from what you are going through. Time marches on, its like reading a book chapter to chapter. Now your life is in a new chapter. Try to understand it, and look for something new and good that will embrace you through it and onto the next chapter. As you step through the waterfall I pray the lord will shower you with peace, and the ability to live through this difficult time with a new found happy and healthy heart.

Kim Anderson

]]> By: Kristy d http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-254 Kristy d Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:30:05 +0000 http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-254 Your tender experience was so well written & something all of us will face. Life as an orphan as u stated is something no one really knows or understands until you face it head-on. I loved your honesty Mona. thank u for opening your heart so deeply so we can all learn a little more about the realities of life &live it more fully. Your tender experience was so well written & something all of us will face. Life as an orphan as u stated is something no one really knows or understands until you face it head-on. I loved your honesty Mona. thank u for opening your heart so deeply so we can all learn a little more about the realities of life &live it more fully.

]]> By: Bri Z http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-253 Bri Z Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:38:23 +0000 http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-253 At a different stage of life, I see Time not as an unruly Two-year old too impatient to sit still, but as a stoic Taskmaster placing fetters on my wrists and ankles and then prodding me on at a horrific pace and ironicly not fast enough. What I wouldn't give to shake the shackles and freely fly to the place where I will long for him to still! I think how painfully the water, more like a leaky faucet to me, drips on my head until I cannot be restrained there anymore and shout, "Enough!" How can I comfort you with no empathy for what you feel? I long to step into the sun so badly, but perhaps the waterfall distorts the picturesque pasture beyond and only tricks me into thinking it will be greener. I admire your gratitude for the abundance around you and your desire to remain. I feel like each future moment can only be better than the present. I am so eager to race forward to a promised land while presently being driven forth before the wind. How differently we all experience the same events? I love you Momsie. I cannot comfort you in the change you're going through. I wouldn't know where to start. I can only tell you how time did stand still while you and dad were here and how I ache to be together again. That eternal promise of forever family with all of us: Dad, Chris, You, Grant, Hannah, Taylor, Me, and future loves we have yet to meet supplies sweet solace to my heart. At a different stage of life, I see Time not as an unruly Two-year old too impatient to sit still, but as a stoic Taskmaster placing fetters on my wrists and ankles and then prodding me on at a horrific pace and ironicly not fast enough. What I wouldn’t give to shake the shackles and freely fly to the place where I will long for him to still! I think how painfully the water, more like a leaky faucet to me, drips on my head until I cannot be restrained there anymore and shout, “Enough!”

How can I comfort you with no empathy for what you feel? I long to step into the sun so badly, but perhaps the waterfall distorts the picturesque pasture beyond and only tricks me into thinking it will be greener. I admire your gratitude for the abundance around you and your desire to remain. I feel like each future moment can only be better than the present. I am so eager to race forward to a promised land while presently being driven forth before the wind. How differently we all experience the same events?

I love you Momsie. I cannot comfort you in the change you’re going through. I wouldn’t know where to start. I can only tell you how time did stand still while you and dad were here and how I ache to be together again. That eternal promise of forever family with all of us: Dad, Chris, You, Grant, Hannah, Taylor, Me, and future loves we have yet to meet supplies sweet solace to my heart.

]]> By: Trina http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-250 Trina Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:41:07 +0000 http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-250 I've called myself an orphan since my mom passed away also. Just because we're adults doesn't mean we feel any differently about our parents. I'm so grateful for the peace that comes from knowing we're only separated for a smidgen of Eternity, but I sure do miss her now. What I wouldn't give to cuddle with her like I did when I was young. I'm sorry for your loss. I'll say prayers for you and your family. We share a fear. Change. Stability means peace to me, whether it's staying put in the same home or my kids moving on in their own lives (my oldest just moved out 2 weeks ago). I want change to stop so badly that I'm fighting my husband on changing the living room furniture around again. I guess this is how we become stronger right? It reminds me of Elenor Roosevelt's quote "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." Thank you for your post. I needed it now. I think I'll go catch a glimpse of fear and change my living room furniture around. My husband will be so happy and I'll be a bit closer to the bulwark of strength I know I should be. Trina I’ve called myself an orphan since my mom passed away also. Just because we’re adults doesn’t mean we feel any differently about our parents. I’m so grateful for the peace that comes from knowing we’re only separated for a smidgen of Eternity, but I sure do miss her now. What I wouldn’t give to cuddle with her like I did when I was young. I’m sorry for your loss. I’ll say prayers for you and your family.

We share a fear. Change. Stability means peace to me, whether it’s staying put in the same home or my kids moving on in their own lives (my oldest just moved out 2 weeks ago). I want change to stop so badly that I’m fighting my husband on changing the living room furniture around again.

I guess this is how we become stronger right? It reminds me of Elenor Roosevelt’s quote “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” Thank you for your post. I needed it now. I think I’ll go catch a glimpse of fear and change my living room furniture around. My husband will be so happy and I’ll be a bit closer to the bulwark of strength I know I should be.

Trina

]]> By: Lynnett http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-249 Lynnett Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:27:45 +0000 http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-249 May you find comfort in the words of the Lord given to Sarah as she was 90 yrs old and going to bear a son. "Is any thing too hard for the Lord?" Gen 18:14 In my primary lesson it said that all we need to do is "TRUST HIM"..."Thy will be done". May you find comfort and may the Lord bear you up in your season of life, in my own way I just wanted to share because I too am facing change. May You be blessed with the sweet comfort of the Spirit to guide and bless you. May you have enough "trust" in him to allow his healing balm. I love you and you are beautiful inside and out! May you find comfort in the words of the Lord given to Sarah as she was 90 yrs old and going to bear a son. “Is any thing too hard for the Lord?” Gen 18:14 In my primary lesson it said that all we need to do is “TRUST HIM”…”Thy will be done”. May you find comfort and may the Lord bear you up in your season of life, in my own way I just wanted to share because I too am facing change. May You be blessed with the sweet comfort of the Spirit to guide and bless you. May you have enough “trust” in him to allow his healing balm. I love you and you are beautiful inside and out!

]]> By: Sarah E. http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-248 Sarah E. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:27:29 +0000 http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-248 My heart hurts and aches for you. Your expressions are so penetrating. How I mourn and grieve knowing you do. Thinking of you dear loved one. Sarah Elliott My heart hurts and aches for you. Your expressions are so penetrating. How I mourn and grieve knowing you do.
Thinking of you dear loved one.
Sarah Elliott

]]> By: kathy http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-247 kathy Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:47:57 +0000 http://www.monasmusings.com/372/#comment-247 Mona: your words are my words. Having lost two dads this past year, feeling the emptiness of being an "orphan" now, missing their wisdom and their presence. At the same time feeling the emptiness of an empty home void of the children that once filled my time. Now left to ponder my own destiny and my own journey. It is still something to celebrate! Mona: your words are my words. Having lost two dads this past year, feeling the emptiness of being an “orphan” now, missing their wisdom and their presence. At the same time feeling the emptiness of an empty home void of the children that once filled my time. Now left to ponder my own destiny and my own journey. It is still something to celebrate!

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