The Passing of Time

This past December, my great-aunt Kakey passed away. We knew the day would come, and while you don't want to hold on to someone while they suffer, it is still sad to know that they are gone. Kakey was a name frequent to these blogs. St. Teresa may have been her greatest love. For many years, she was the matriarch to our beachhouse. As much as she could she spent time with family and friends on the coast.

This past summer, I attended church in Carabelle with my family. The reading that day stuck with me, and I thought that if we ever put up a memoriam at our beachhouse these words might be the most appropriate:

"O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom have you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
Here is the sea, great and wide,
which teems with creatures innumerable,
living things both small and great.
There go the ships,
and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

These all look to you,
to give them their food in due season.
When you give it to them, they gather it up;
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die
and return to their dust.
When you send forth your Spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the ground." - Psalm 104: 24-30