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Glorious Diminishment-A Lenten Meditation on Aging
This is for everyone whose life seems to be getting shorter. Do not despair, for greater things lie ahead. Sometimes what seems to be a suffering, just draws us closer to Divine beauty and is really a blessing.... A Poem by Joseph R. Veneroso, M.M.
Autumn splendor of the leaf whose life appears all but past and yet there, in its final days, reveals a glory heretofore hidden by its youth.
Stained and pungent from harvests past only when the winepress crushes grapes can life's fermentation yield a choice and worthy vintage.
So do not fear or fret when youth passes and beauty fades as they always have and surely will. Memory, too, may well grow dim with time and strength diminish in due course. Forget all else but remember this: A deeper strength, an inner beauty will emerge, as a statue from the living rock chipped and polished by the Sculptor's hand.
But should wisdom not come with age and time and illness rob a once proud and noble frame of all comeliness; should humor fail, kindness flee and even hope and faith take flight then, even then, especially then recall how from the ruins of fallen humanity a Savior rose and will return and in the flesh we too will one day rise and ascend.
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There is no need to believe that fairies live there too, to appreciate the simple beauty of the garden.
Nice poem, Observer.
To be honest... the only reason I behave myself at all is so that one day I'll meet Johnny Cash in heaven.