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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=449665" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stories Of Hope Series #4 The Elders</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His wife died fifteen years past, and he knew<br>Living with his children would not last.<br>They would want to put him in a assisted living home<br>Just so that they could be left alone.<br>They could not foresee that one day they would be elderly.<br>They joked about him becoming senile<br>But he knew that would not happen for quite a while.<br>He was only sixty two with so much more living to do.<br>He knew the only thing he had left was HOPE.<br>And with life’s burdens he would have to cope.<br>So he decided to go back to school<br>And learn a new trade, and show his family <br>that he could make the grade.<br>He learned carpentry, and bought all the necessary tools<br>And what he couldn’t get, he borrowed from the school.<br>He already had in his mind of what he’d like to make.<br>And he knew that a long time it would take.<br>He decided to get the WESTERN RED CEDAR<br>For its softness and durability, and aromatic smell<br>This wood he knew would work quite well.<br>He found the perfect picture of what he had in mind<br>And viewed every detail and every line.<br>He wanted it to be about three feet tall<br>And two feet wide because that size would be just fine.<br>He started off very slowly, just chiseling away.<br>And sanding it down perfectly<br>For that’s the way it had to be.<br>He used each and every sculpting blade he could find<br>To define each and every line.<br>He did each part with delicate care<br>For with this piece there was a love he shared.<br>Slowly but surely it started to take shape<br>He was impatient, he could not wait.<br>But he knew that this was the way it was meant to be<br>So that everyone could see the beauty that had to be.<br>He worked on it every day, and his worries<br>Seemed to slip away.<br>Being put in a home was no longer his concern<br>And that his children would have to learn<br>That as long as he could breathe and walk<br>All of this was just talk.<br>This sculpture became his obsession <br>and his passion and made him grow strong<br>And doing this is where he belonged.<br>His teachers were very impressed and said<br>He was the best student yet.<br>They said that this was a work of art and of beauty<br>And should be put on display<br>And that for this the public would gladly pay.<br>He knew there was something missing<br>And that it was not complete, <br> and this problem he would defeat.<br>Then it dawned on him that it was needing color.<br>He needed the darkest blue and the deepest brown<br>And went about painting it without making a sound.<br>The darkest blue was for the piercing eyes<br>And the brown for the shoulder length hair<br>This was the perfect pair.<br>For three months he had toiled with perfection<br>For this was of the LORD and his resurrection.<br>And this was how it came to be<br>That this elder found harmony</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HOPE IS THE KEY TO SET OURSELVES FREE</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louis+Rams">Louis Rams</a><div class=q>
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Living with his children would not last.
They would want to put him in a assisted living home
Just so that they could be left alone.
They could not foresee that one day they would be elderly.
They joke..."></div>
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