Today Angela and I observed remembrance Day. Not only did we remember those who gave so much to our country in war but we most of all remembered you, the one who gave us so much in life. As well as that, we remembered the trenches. We were there with you in that horrible war that took you away from us. All of us who loved you so much each have memories of that battle that we fought right along side of you. Each of us have scars and wounds that we will have for the rest of our days, yet here we are, we live on but we will never forget.
You can see our reflections as if they have been etched into the stone as if we had become a part of the epitaph. In truth we are. We were such a part of who you were just as you were such a part of who we are. In this way you will always be remembered. You will always be a part of who were are. Time itself can not erase this. You will always be remembered by us and when we are gone and time has removed all of us who remember you, we will be with you.
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come,
our shelter from the stormy blast and our eternal home.
Before the hills in order stood or earth received her frame,
from everlasting thou art God, to endless years the same.
A thousand ages in Thy sight are like an evening gone,
short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun.
Time like an ever rolling stream bears all its sons away,
they fly forgotten as a dream dies at the op'ning day.
O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come,
be Thou our guard while troubles last and our eternal home.
Amen
1 comment:
I remember singing that song somewhere.
And the memorial stone is very nice.
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