Sic Vita

I am a parcel of vain strivings tied
By a chance bond together,
Dangling this way and that, their links
Were made so loose and wide,
Methinks,
For milder weather.

A bunch of violets without their roots,
And sorrel intermixed,
Encircled by a wisp of straw
Once coiled about their shoots,
The law
By which I'm fixed.
........

And here I bloom for a short hour unseen,
Drinking my juices up,
With no root in the land
To keep my branches green,
But stand
In a bare cup.

Some tender buds were left upon my stem
In mimicry of life,
But ah! the children will not know,
Till time has withered them,
The woe
With which they're rife.

But now I see I was not plucked for naught,
And after in life's vase
Of glass set while I might survive,
But by a kind hand brought
Alive
To a strange place.

That stock thus thinned will soon redeem its hours,
And by another year,
Such as God knows, with freer air,
More fruits and fairer flowers
Will bear,
While I droop here.

~Henry David Thereau~

Hello to family and friends !

This is my first entry in this "Blog". I have been told that this is a good way of sending updates and pictures to people, so i thought i would try it for this summer, and we will see how it goes.

As i do not really know where i will be for chunks of time or really where i will end up i think that this is a strange place to be...but i strangely feel like this is where i am being led, and this leading i am bound to follow for in Him there is Life and that is how i choose to use these days that i have been given.

So this site is for you if you wish to use it, to follow where i have been and where i am heading. I will try to keep it up to date.

Thank you in advance for your love support and prayers as i pursue following in a manner worthy of the calling to Which Christ has lead the way.