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Thanks Kevin, we sure see enough valleys.  Beautiful poem.    Sometimes we are given longer lives and I fall back on "only the good die young" and I consider anything and up to my age as young.  One thing with loss, we have a lot more valley's to explore.  I wrote that she had passed away but cannot find the article I read to back that up, so maybe she is not.  I hope not.  We need more poems like that.  

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Thank you for sharing that with us, Kevin, I believe it wholeheartedly and know it to be true.  It's just awful darn hard to feel that way in early grief!

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Kevin, 

It looks like your part of heaven looks a lot like mine! :)

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On 5/27/2017 at 6:42 PM, kevin said:

Just got back from the Funeral and I am pumped....This is great  Poem that was recited and appropriate for our individual Valleys....

Sometimes life seems hard to bear,
Full of sorrow, trouble and woe.
It’s then I have to remember
That it’s in the valleys I grow.

If I always stayed on the mountain top
And never experienced pain,
I would never appreciate God’s love
And would be living in vain.

I have so much to learn
And my growth is very slow.
Sometimes I need the mountain tops,
But it’s in the valleys I grow.

I do not always understand
Why things happen as they do.
But I am very sure of one thing.
My Lord will see me through.

Forgive me Lord, for complaining
When I’m feeling so very low.
Just give me a gentle reminder
That it’s in the valleys I grow.

Continue to strengthen me, Lord
And use my life each day
To share your love with others
And help them find their way.

Thank you for valleys, Lord
For this one thing I know.
The mountain tops are glorious  

But it’s in the valleys I grow!

by Jane Eggleston

Though as I've said before I'm not in any way religious, I found some meaningfulness to that poem, thanks for sharing!

 

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