I attended a funeral for the father of a good friend the other day. I was moved by her son's poem/song presented in honor of his grandfather. After getting his permission to place it here, I share it with you in hopes it will speak to you as it did me. To me it had a message in it about how time goes by so fast and how we need to take time with those we love because before we know it they will be gone. Please read it and see what it says to you:
WHERE TIME HAS NO HOLD
It really seems like we were laughing
Just the other day.
So it goes that, I got older
and time got in the way.
I never even came close to all I had to say.
I must admit I feel an emptiness
Now that you’re not here anymore,
But I take comfort in believing
You’re only passing through a door
To where there’ll be no regrets anymore.
Where we will be
Forever in the presence of the love that made us whole.
Where we will be
Fulfilled beyond imagination
Beatific new creations where time has no hold.
All the hallways of my memory
Are scattered with images of you.
When I add up all those moments
They still seem too few
But death holds no sway over this truth:
That we will be
Forever in the presence of the love that made us whole.
Where we will be
Fulfilled beyond imagination; beatific now creations
Where time as no hold.
Where a day is like a thousand years.
A thousand years like one day.
We will be there, before the Throne
When He wipes all tears away.
I must admit I feel a happiness
Knowing that I’ll see you again.
I will be here, holding on ‘til then
When real living will begin.
Where we will be
Forever in the presence of the love that made us whole.
Where we will be
Fulfilled beyond imagination, beatific new creations
Where time has no hold.
In Loving Memory of My Grandfather, John
By: Tom Gregory
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