There’s a vista far above Enchanted Valley (also known as “The Valley of 10,000 Waterfalls”). It is one of the more difficult (to put it mildly) to reach.
But after ascending those 2,000 feet of elevation, do you know what you can see from there?
Everything.
You can see far below where you’ve come from, with the fog still lingering over the trail through the valley.
You can also see stretching out far beyond you the baby blue haze hovering over the Pacific Ocean.
And as you look at the beauty surrounding you as you catch your breath, you begin to understand why the weathered signpost near where you pitched your tent simply says, “Home, Sweet Home.”
Now, today, over a half-century later, my wife and I are at home awaiting a visit from hospice care.
We’ve arrived at this place called home through much toil and trouble, a place difficult to reach, but a place where we can now see clearly how blessed we’ve been and how far we’ve come.
We can see from here everything that matters.
Psalm 37:18
I write of this perhaps because it provides a release of some sort for me, certainly tears are ever present, but also so that maybe readers will take comfort and hope given we can likely all identify as we are all somewhere along that journey.
Life can be happy, life can be fun, BUT life can also be very sad. I am sad for you and your family David. Wish it could be different too. But God has his plans for each of us, and that is the path we must walk. Holding you all in my prayers, as God is holding all of you in His arms.
Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know that I am.
Be still and know.
Be still.
There is a time for everything and for every activity under the heavens.
God bless you all.
Thank you for sharing such a heartfelt message. I could not stop thinking about the words you wrote. Novelist, Presbyterian minister, preacher and theologian Frederick Buechner wrote, “If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” From Then and Now by Frederick Beuchner
I sense you can appreciate the message he conveys. God bless you and your wife.