A Goodbye for Flynn Gallagher

We will never be the same
As we were before this loss
But we are ever so much better
For having had someone
So great to Lose.
~Leigh~

A young friend of mine was called home to Jesus today. My heart bucks and fights against the reality. I cry out in pain at the tearing of another sacred bond. I fall to my knees and cower in fear. Thank God He does not leave me there.

John Denver’s Wild Country song comes to mind and beckons my retreat. St. Paul’s Romans 1:20 alongside it.
I run to the wild of Granite Basin Lake. My grandkids and son are happily basking in the cool waters and in the joy of being together. This frees me to seek God’s invisible qualities all around me;
to look up at the granite boulder mountains and the crisp blue sky and choose to be comforted by God’s invisible qualities, by His eternal power and divine nature that can be understood from what has been made. I focus on He, Who calls us home and He, Who holds me up when I cannot stand. He, Who assures me that through the brokenness of this world, through my own brokenness, He will bring beauty.

Somewhere down the broken road, there will be answers for this loss but for right now, I can feel this brokenness because I know my Lord goes before me. I know I am ever so much better for having had someone so great to lose.

Goodbye, sweet Flynn. I imagine that the completeness of your mother’s and father’s love have prepared you well for the love of Jesus Who welcomes you with His shining radiant love this very day.

Loving you,
Anne
July 16, 2023

Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made.”

To the Wild Country
By John Denver

There are times I fear I lose myself
I don’t know who I am
I get caught up in the struggle and the strain
With my back against a stonewall
My finger in the dam
Losin’ strength and goin’ down again

And I take a look around me
My eyes can’t find the sun
There’s nothing wild as far as I can see
Then my heart turns to Alaska
And freedom on the run
I can hear her spirit callin’ me
To the mountains, I can rest there
To the rivers, I will be strong
To the forest, I’ll find peace there
To the wild country, where I belong

Oh, I know some times I worry
On worldly ways and means
And I can see the future killing me
On a misbegotten highway
Of prophecies and dreams
A road to nowhere and eternity

And I know it’s just changes
Yes, and mankind marchin’ on
I know we can’t live in yesterday
But compared to what we’re losin’
And what it means to me
I’d give my life and throw the rest away

To the mountains, I can rest there
To the rivers, I will be strong
To the forest, I’ll find peace there
To the wild country, where I belong
To the wild country, where I belong.