Graveyard

 A place to reflect.

To acknowledge.

Lives been and passed.

 

To observe footsteps in history.

Young women died in childbirth.

A miner and his mates.

 

To take time for the fallen

People who fought for our freedom

 

Similarities and differences.

People banding together in the same plot, different family name.

 

What are we doing with our today?

Are we banned together, or apart?

Do we still fight for justice and better treatment for those less privileged than we are?

 

Have you considered what will be written on your gravestone? Tree? Or marker?

‘a life well lived’, ‘at peace’, ‘he is risen’?

Yours may be different than mine.

“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know the way to where I am going.”

“No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

 

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. If you had really known me; you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!” John 14 1-7

Mine will say.

‘There will come a day the Lord did say, when my people will be made new . I will bring them back to me, and they will be made new’.

For that is my hope as a Christian.

I pray that others might read it and reflect so that it may be there’s too.