Yesterday A Dream Away
“Yesterday a dream away…a snapshot from another day…a shoebox filled with memories…of Polaroid’s and black and whites…of birthdays past and first prom nights…a lifetime filled with smiles and tears…with children’s laughter…passing years…a snapshot from another day…as close as now…a dream away…“ When I first came across this abandoned homestead I could not help but wonder what untold stories it held within. An elegant lady in an earlier day, dressed in a crisp coat of white, adorned with tasteful hints of spindles and trim. Surely a source of wide smiles and pride, a favorite gathering place for family events, where memories were made and milestones came and too quickly went…a child’s first steps, first tooth, and first bike. Summer potlucks out back, cousins laughing and playing, dad’s well-used old truck parked in the shed. I have to admit to being left melancholy by a find like this, knowing that this empty shell once called home now sits abandoned filled with a family’s stories, some perhaps left untold. I glance at this house and have thoughts of the many times that I have sat on the couch with other family members in mom and dad’s home, with the tattered box filled with favorite old photos and the stories that unfold…laughter and sadness, loved ones we miss…a moment in time held there in your hand, emotions relived, captured on film, saved in a place reserved in your heart. Snapshots of children, now parents themselves, memories visited from the box where they sit. A simple reminder that treasures don’t last, possessions held tightly, eventually must pass. A difficult life lesson which my loved ones and I are now living out, like so many other families dealing with loss and change and difficult decisions, prayers and requests for God’s tender love. Memories and snapshots stored deep inside turn out to be the real gold, the true source of belonging and happiness and pride, to value and hold on to as long as we can, as long as we share them and tell them and keep them alive. My hope is to leave here with no stories left untold, with loved ones left knowing that I loved them because they were...
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