Bärli,
This simple, profound collection of words came to me from your Godpoppa, in 2016. He has always been my soul’s brother – connected to a deep part of my inner self and I am connected to his. He sent me these words as a lifesaver in the midst of an intense tempest storm, before your birth. My recollection is that he made this supplication everything I needed: short for ease of repetition, sacred for immediate connection to God and Mother Mary, and soothing [for the breath pattern – breathe in God, breathe out the reminder – allowed oxygen to balm my panicked brain].
God of time and space…remind me this is temporary.
In a fascinating and somewhat surprising turn of events, the Godpoppa Prayer has become something else for me lately. I’m unclear if this is the turning of the clock, which turns for us both my love, or if this is the roar of the hustle & bustle of being a professional in my career field and a single mother? I only know that this prayer has become a centering reminder for me that you are a small child for only so long. That I am receiving cuddles and only the occasional, “you’re the worst mom in the world” (which I know you do not mean) for now only. My own development as a person has allowed me the space to live in the moment and to see that there is beauty or pain or a growth or something to learn or any of a myriad of possibilities in every experience. Just as these bad moments are temporary? So, too, are the good moments, those flashes that are pure and full of wonder. I want to grab it all.
God of time and space…remind me this is temporary.
Your birthday morning recreated a scene from 2016 with a few alterations in the tableau. Lindy, PopPop, and Momma were together, just as we were on the day you were born; but, you were there, greeting a new year of life with your beautiful spoken words and laugh. We, the four of us, were not in a hospital in the land of mountains and lakes, rather enjoying the comfort of our home in the land of stars and stripes. Transfiguration, indeed.
God of time and space…remind me this is temporary.
It is the perfect prayer.
Amen.
The World of Before You 