We should have parties just before death visits.  Celebrating lives, remembering stories, crystallizing what people have said and done.  But lots of times death comes too fast, in the night or on the highway.  Still we should have parties.

Humans still weep, though, at missing the presence of loved ones.  That’s just the way we are.

I am a bit numb today.  I have spent the weekend celebrating lives.  One to one, eyes deep into eyes, soul to soul speaking to aches and dreams and fears.  Stories of who they are right now.

I’ve been to many memorials this weekend of some I will never see again. I honor their mirroring eyes and compassionate laughter.

Thanks for the memories of me through you.

I call on the energy of steady rain to keep me constant in Your heart today.  Refresh and restore my soul as I drive by the soothing streams.  Allow me to side-step the valley of the shadow of bad dreams today and to allow the chariot of your love to fill me with ease, comfort and clarity.