It happens just when you think it won’t …
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From Luke’s Journal March 2026 | Vol. 31 No. 1 | God at the Bedside
It happens when the sun is sighing
When last light is slowing down,
Then leaving without permission.
It happens when you think it won’t happen …
To the ordinary people like you & I
It’s when lovers are left alone grieving,
It’s the deaths of suffering mothers & fathers ~
The demise of friends who quietly disappeared.
No one prepares anyone for that last goodbye,
When you’re letting go of warm familiar hands
And you feel like you’re the one dying.
We need the Love which scattered
Love to each human soul held fast
In the thrall of illusion & vainglory.
We need a love which will not abandon,
Which refuses to deceive & betray.
We need Jesus the sublime & supreme ~
Who died for Love (for all the darkness),
Who will never walk away … we need
His redeeming Love which said,
There’s no last goodbyes.
Anonymous
The writer lives in the Hunter and is married to a midwife. He has worked in Education and Chaplaincy and is still involved in Pastoral Care. He grew up as a devout Roman Catholic until his unexpected conversion at 21. He attends an evangelical Presbyterian church in Newcastle.
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