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For those who walk alone – a poem dedicated in celebration of my precious one’s birthday, February 9th…Happy Birthday Steve…I will always love you.
For Those Who Walk Alone
For those who walk alone,
There is a privilege, grace and power.
Our strength has no limits, our wisdom abounds…
We walk in a realm all our own.
For those who walk alone,
It’s not a life to be pitied or unnoticed.
Our tears never weigh us down,
They cleanse our hearts, to enable a new harvest to grow.
For those who walk alone,
Remember always, you are never alone truly,
For although God walks with us, side by side,
He was there in the past behind us…and tomorrow, He is already there.
Felecia R. Weber 2016, OntheWingofaDove.com
One of the most powerful memories that I have of my late husband happened on the night that he passed. It seemed he’d been in dreamlike state throughout that day. Amazingly, he walked around the house, up and down the stairs, traveled in the car to his doctor’s office for hydration, just like a “normal” day in his life as a cancer patient. He was his usual soft spoken, good-natured, courteous self. I knew in my heart that indeed that could be his last day here with us on earth, but it seemed like he was already somewhere between here and heaven.
As you can imagine, by that stage, the disease had taken its horrible toll on him. He had wasted away to only a shadow of the man he’d always been. That late afternoon, however, as he rested. stretched out on the bed in the haze of the dimming sunlight, there was a wholeness and serenity to him that I’ll never forget. As he lay quietly on the bed, he stretched out his left arm and held it there for a long while. He wore a slight smile on his face. All I could imagine is that he was being gently ushered into his true home, to be with our lord. As I stood next to the bed just gazing upon that peaceful sight, I closed my eyes, and through the lenses of hope and truth, I could see my Stephen, confidently walking toward the light, toward our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Now as I continue to walk alone, here on earth, I replay that image in my mind…what calmness, what peace…what a treasure our Lord is for those who walk alone.
“However, as it is written: ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human has conceived’ – the things God has prepared for those who love him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9
Peace and love,
Felecia
