I’ve been busy with celebrating Ken and my anniversary of meeting each other here in Almaty, Kazakhstan 15 years ago to the day. We went to church yesterday where we met, thanks to the pastor who introduced us. Of course, it has changed locations and denominations but the music was the same vibrant beat and all in Russian. Great to catch up with the pastor’s wife and meet her two youngest sons, the youngest they adopted 6 years ago as an infant. Cute kids (wish I could figure out how to put my photo of these two on my blog today) Anyway, here is a poem I like from Streams in the Desert:
Don’t let the song go out of your life
Though it change sometimes to flow
In a minor strain; it will blend again
With the major tone you know.What though shadows rise to obscure life’s skies,
And hide for a time the sun,
The sooner they’ll lift and reveal the rift,
If you let the melody run.Don’t let the song go out of your life;
Though the voice may have lost its trill,
Though the tremulous note may die in your throat,
Let it sing in your spirit still.Don’t let the song go out of your life;
Let it ring in the soul while here;
And when you go hence, ’twill follow you thence,
And live on in another sphere.
