I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
~In Memoriam, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
At the end of another year we contemplate the past with a willingness to review all that beset us the trials, the tribulations that daily test our trust in Our Father's love for us. For within the rational mind there resides the thought that revealed truths can never be proved, when science reasons us to believe that there is nothing beyond the organic matter staring at us from our bathroom mirror, inviting us to believe that this is all we are, and can ever be.
If e'er when faith had fallen asleep,
I hear a voice 'believe no more'
And heard an ever-breaking shore
That tumbled in the Godless deep;
Tennyson's doubts were ever present when ever disaster struck, and life appeared to be less than fair...recovering from his momentary loss of faith to write:
No, like a child in doubt and fear:
But that blind clamour made me wise;
Then was I as a child that cries,
But, crying knows his father near;
Doubt becomes the catalyst of our faith that Our Father is always present at our side, drying our tears in those moments when our trust is tested by life's tragedies.
The year ahead will also be fraught with difficulties there being an awareness that life offers each, and every human person their birth right to overcome, and surmount all that adversity heaps on us to grow our self confidence that we can overcome our easy choice to surrender to our fear of failure by continuing to trust in Our Father's love for every human person, becoming aware that doubt fertilizes our faith in The One who even now stands our side asking us to do all that He asks of us to better cope with all that life presents to us to grow us into wiser, and more resilient children inspired by Our Father to wait upon His timing, knowing that all will be well.
In Memoriam
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