Streams of Mercy

It’s been said that people come into our lives for a reason, or a season or a lifetime. Recently I participated in a graveside service for a member in a former congregation. He became a very special friend to our family in those years.

My children’s dad was a pilot and their experiences with airplanes and airport life made them fast friends with this gentleman in the congregation. We became family to each other in our years together. In many ways, I feel he and his wife were reliving special times shared with their family as they shared life with us. As I spoke at his service, I thanked his children and grandchildren for sharing him with us.

I wanted to say something about flight and came across this online a few days ago:

“For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of worry there is peace; for the wing of pain, there is healing; for the wing of hurt, there is forgiveness; for the wing of giving, there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy, for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance.”

Such a good life lesson, and a prayer that we live with right wing and left wing in place, ever grateful for the people who come into our lives for a reason, or a season or a lifetime.

Elizabeth