Dear April 20, 2019 …

Cherry

By Rhiannonw

Mon, 20 Apr 2020
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Did you a year ago today
think cash would constantly increase,
easing life’s way,
and music, meeting friends would fill
your future happily,
no thought of ill?
Globe-trotting, seeking thrill,
adventure, sun
hopeful that life go on
in endless fun?

… would you have dreamt within the year
the world would all be locked in fear?
– all distancing – no human skill or ploy
could trouble by a virulent virus
easily destroy.

…if so,
would you have valued health
and simple pleasures more than wealth?
and given serious thought to death,
to ‘is there’s living after breath
fail in this body?’, had you heard –
put off awhile much thought about
directing and equipping word?

                    sent from April 20, 2020

[IP: a letter to past, present or future]

 

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Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi Rhiannon,

I like the idea of writing a letter to April 2019. It goes to prove you can never tell what's around the corner and how life can change in an instant.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jenny, yes, we've all been shaken out of comlacency to serious values and thought. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by airyfairy on

Last April does, indeed, seem like a lifetime ago.  This works really well, Rhiannon.

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you. Glad you thought so, Airy. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you for the cherries. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by hilary west on

Would we reevaluate everything, I'm inclined to think not at all. People just get on with what's in front of them and to hell with the rest !!!

Hilary     devil

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Mmm. Thanks, HIlary. Maybe now there will be some shaken re-evaluation? We hope so, for much of the security that breeds complacency is removed or not so certain! For so long the words of scripture have been pushed away that direct to foundations for living this life and provision for acceptance into the next by the ransom bought at that first Easter …

Time to push off the lies and find the happiness and support that sees us through all! Rhiannon