A Special Place

Dad's memorial bench at Valley Green.

Special messages heard that autumn afternoon. A moment of grace. Real, enduring, not fleeting, not my words, not my projection, messages holding great clarity and as solid as a rock, sources of newfound strength, invisible yet visible, mysterious yet ordinary, and unequivocally true. In brief, a moment that healed a life.

"Fragile, unconditional acceptance, ask and your shall receive and seek and you shall find".

Now, in this moment, when fearful I carry his words and honor this gift.