Love like you are running out of time
+ a really great book summer reading giveaway!
On Sunday I went to a funeral. My friend Denise spoke so beautifully about David that I asked for her remarks so I could paint them.
I’ve long observed - our greatest joys in this life are family relationships. I’ve also long observed - our greatest grief and pain come from family relationships.
Denise said that she believed David would say -
LOVE LIKE YOU’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME
be SLOW TO ANGER
QUICK TO FORGIVE
HAVE MERCY
David wasn’t particularly religious, but he was spiritual. He had written in a red-letter bible (did you know a red-letter bible is a bible that highlights all of the words Jesus said in red? I didn’t!) that he had figured something out. If this was it - amen, David. Amen.
It reminds me a favorite poem, The Summer Day:
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
-Mary OliverAmy ❣️
A Four-Book Summer Reading Giveaway
Ya’ll this is an awesome giveaway from some of the best middle grade, award-winning authors writing today. Go to my Instagram @amymakechnie to easily enter (ending this evening!) We are picking three winners to win all four books - WOW!
Where I’ll Be I Want You to Be!
In New Hampshire this Thursday, June 27 2023:
Utah next month, August 12 2023
On the horizon: Sept 9, 11am, Toadstool Bookshop, Peterborough NH + local library
And lastly…lightening literally strikes…
That was a beautiful poem shared. Thank you. 😊
Amazing quote. Such beautiful words to be spoken at an important time.