If We Could See Beyond Today

After a run to the grocery store this morning for salad fixings,

I returned home to alter some nightgowns for Mother.

 This involves sewing up the fronts of some and splitting the backs of all.

I rarely get my trusty little sewing machine out these days...

As I scheme and sew, I find myself wishing Mother was here with me

(and that I'd paid more attention when I was younger).

She would know just how to do this, 

and it would be finished so much nicer than I can do with my humble attempt

to make these gowns serviceable and appropriate to her condition.

 I'm also working to write in the third part in one of the songs I may be singing

with my two sisters this Sunday.

Its words have taken on a whole new layer of meaning for me

in the past two years.

 If we could see, if we could know,
We often say.
But God in love a veil doth throw
Across our way.
We cannot see what lies before,
And so we cling to Him the more
He leads us till this life is o'er,
Trust and obey.

(3rd verse)