Dear Joe,

It is good to see you moving forward again! Prayers are with you.

Thank you for the music, which I would never have known otherwise. Paul Robeson - what a voice! I can imagine the feelings of the little boy sitting in his lap.

Candles burning.
Juliana

"Speak Peace in a World of Conflict" (M.B.Rosenberg)

Dear Joe,
I too am pleased to see you moving forward again. By no means are you the only dad to have this happen to them. My Son had a similar (or worse) accusation made against him while battling for custody of his little daughter from an alcoholic drug using mother. Just like you it threw him for a bit, but he has had custody now for more than 7 years. Keep faith.
 
That is so good that you have had some pleasant reminders from childhood. There are no coincidences! Yes, we could have a thread "music remembered from childhood" I can think of a few already.
 
I will keep candles lit for you.
 
Love,
Jude

Love is the only way

Joe, thank you for the songs. I've never heard either of them before. I was amused to hear all those Welsh towns mentioned in the Peter Seeger song.
 
Paul Robeson was a favourite from my childhood too, though I never met him.
 
Jude

Love is the only way

I too am pleased to see you moving forward again. By no means are you the only dad to have this happen to them. My Son had a similar (or worse) accusation made against him while battling for custody of his little daughter from an alcoholic drug using mother. Just like you it threw him for a bit, but he has had custody now for more than 7 years. Keep faith.

It is so good to hear and see stories like mine that have happy endings.  I got very lost in the pain and sadness and anger, and it has been a monumental battle to see anything but disaster and darkness.  But with the help of my beautiful gratefulness family, and some very extraordinary other people like my sister Kim I can now see a future which is not filled with pain.

I can also say with certainty that I would not have made it without help from above.  So many times I have felt the gentlest of touches, soothing me, reassuring me, guiding me ...........................  I remember someone saying to me some time ago "The time when your faith is most tested is the time that you need it most".  I can say without hesitation that my faith is stronger and more immediate than ever.

I am also sure I would not have made it through without music.  One of the pieces from my own "Missing Darcy" suite has sometimes been the only way I could find to open my heart to the feelings instead of pushing them down.  I still play the whole suite every evening.  Three songs have also been monumentally important to give me the strength I've needed.  Walk With Me - Lizz Wright  Open Your Eyes - Lizz Wright  and Old Man - Lizz Wright (she goes down to the D below middle C - that's about an octave below where most female singers start from).

I not anywhere near finished this journey through darkness, but I feel like the light ahead is now visible, rather than something I had to simply believe in.


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Moving forward, but carefully

Joe

Dear Joe,
 
Blessings on your continued journey! I am glad you are finding yourself in a better place!
 
A candle is burning for all of you!
 
With love and prayers,
Edda

Peace and joy!

I not anywhere near finished this journey through darkness, but I feel like the light ahead is now visible, rather than something I had to simply believe in.

 
Dear Joe, your journey may not be finished, but this is a much better place to be I'm sure, seeing a glimmer of light and knowing it is there.
 
"Happy is the person who in a dark sky rejoices at seeing a speck of light."
 
 
 
Liz Wright has an extraordinary voice! Her words are very meaningful.
 
Love,
Jude
 
 

Love is the only way

Well, I took the camera with me, but it was a rainy, blustery day, and I couldn't get a photo.

Any day can be worth a picture . . .
I am actually partial to rainy days.
Thank you, Joe,
for the songs.
Paul Robeson has a wonderful voice!
I grew up with the songs of Pete Seeger,
who actually lives not too far from me . . .
'God Bless the Grass' is one of my favorites.
I couldn't find Pete singing it on youtube,
but here is someone else singing it . . .
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWFEIpIuJ14
 
Prayers of healing and light for you
with love . . .
sparrow
 

everything counts... ♥

'God Bless the Grass' is one of my favorites.

 
 
Great song!!

Love is the only way

Dear Joe
 

"The time when your faith is most tested is the time that you need it most". I can say without hesitation that my faith is stronger and more immediate than ever.

I do believe it's in our 'darkest times' we are sustained 'the most'.We can't always feel this at the time but looking back I feel this must be the case.
 
Take good care Joe of yourself 
  
 

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

I have to share this song.  It's by Lizz Wright, and I get shivers every time I listen to it because of the beauty of her voice

Lizz Wright - Hey Man

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I'm still standing
Joe

Dear Joe
 
I came across this song tonight and I felt I needed to share it with you...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4c1woKwjWw&feature=PlayList&p=E7FC41E6B3B0A73C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1
 
Take care Joe

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

Dear Joe,
 
That's truly a very beautiful song!
 
Sandra, thank you for your song choice. I also came accross it a week or two ago and I think I put it on the "Music" thread.
It is very appropriate for me this morning.
 
At circle dance we do a very meditative dance to this song, and we think it is God talking to us.
 
Love,
Jude

Love is the only way

Dear Joe,

I do believe in happy endings - I have lived to know many of the kind! It can be terribly tough going through the time before the happy ending. But if we keep the end in mind, trusting, trusting...  (not humans, but the Holy One), we get through them and come out stronger and enriched...

Prayers, candles, and my best wishes to you,
Juliana

"Speak Peace in a World of Conflict" (M.B.Rosenberg)

I do believe in happy endings

It's a bit hard at the moment to see an ending to this battle.  I don't believe Julie will change, just because a judge says she should.  I think I'm going to be battling for a long time for Darcy and me to have the relationship we deserve.

But hey, I've been wrong before. 

It's been a hard couple of days.  I've had major anxiety all day, two days in a row.  Finally tonight I found where it was coming from, so now I can deal with it.  Hardest part was that it stopped me writing my music.  I now have three pieces in the middle of being written. 

It used to be normal for me to feel like that most days, before I started healing from the sexual abuse.  Anxiety and fear were constant companions.  It's hard to feel like that now, because it's so rare.

My prayer is that I will be able to have Darcy with me for Christmas.  Celebrate the birth of a special child with another special child.  That would make it the best Christmas in my whole life.

My prayers also are for all the parents who do not see their children, for whatever reason.  And for the kids who then go through life with an empty space inside where the parent is supposed to be.


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Maybe if I walk backwards it wouldn't seem like such a long journey

Joe

I do hope your dream will come true!

Juliana

"Speak Peace in a World of Conflict" (M.B.Rosenberg)

My prayers also are for all the parents who do not see their children, for whatever reason. And for the kids who then go through life with an empty space inside where the parent is supposed to be.

 
I would include grandparents here too. With so many broken families there are a lot of isolated grandparents and grandchildren who don't get to see them.
 
Lighting a candle for you Joe.
 
Blessings,
Jude

Love is the only way

I would include grandparents here too. With so many broken families there are a lot of isolated grandparents and grandchildren who don't get to see them.

Yes, and that included me.  My dad never got on with my mother's parents, so we only saw them at Christmas time.  My grandmother I have some memories of playing the piano, and I am sure she has guided my music many times.  My granddad I didn't really get to know until I was 20, and I visited him while my mum was overseas.  I have such good memories of sitting listening to him tell the stories of his life on the land, and his love of the bush and the animals.  I have regretted a lot the fact that it was not until the latter part of his life that I spent time with him.  I also wish I had learned to play the piano from my grandmother.

Here's a couple of photos. 

My granddad was 90 years old in this photo!  The horse was a wild one which no-one else could even get near to.


A little blurry, but one of my most treasured photos.


Thank you, Jude for taking me down that path of beautiful memories.

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Who put that great big hole in the middle of my path, and why do I keep falling down it?

Joe

Dear Joe,
What beautiful photos! Your Grandad was 90.....my goodness, I wouldn't have put him beyond 65 perhaps.
 
Is there a family resemblance I see in the second photo?
 
I didn't get to know my Grandparents either because I was a late child and they all died in their 60s. A great sadness for me, particularly as my older siblings got to have time with all of them.
 
Keep searching for those happy momories Joe,
 
Blessings,
Jude

Love is the only way

Dear Joe,

Thank you from me for the photos, too! Yes, Grandparents are a great treasure. I never got to know those on my mother´s side, and only the father of my father for a very short time during my childhood. But something nice has happenend to me. Although I have no grandchildren of my own, the son and daughter of a former student of mine call me "Oma" ( = German for Granny). That´s a beautiful relationship we have, which makes me very happy. (It´s not always the ties of blood which unite... Love can flow everywhere...)

Hoping you are walking along, with Hope in your heart,
Juliana

"Speak Peace in a World of Conflict" (M.B.Rosenberg)

(It´s not always the ties of blood which unite... Love can flow everywhere...)

 
Thank you Juliana for reminding us of that fact
 
Jude

Love is the only way