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Southern born, Southern reared. It's a quirky place and we are unique folk... These are my people and these are my stories.

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Love is Patient ...


Like a young mother-to-be waits for her baby's arrival date ... love is patient.
Like a young mother waits for the day her baby calls her by that most precious of names "Mommy" ... love is patient.
Like a young mother runs behind her toddler until she thinks she will drop and wonders if nap time will ever get here or if the house will ever be righted again ... love is patient.
Like a young mother sits, hour after hour as her child learns the pain-staking efforts of reading and writing and adding the sums ... love is patient.
Like a mother sits, hour after hour, watching her child at soccer ... at ballet ... in theater group ... at choir ... at youth group ... at music lessons ... and so on and so on ... love is patient.
Like a mother sits, hour after hour, over her child's sick bed, watching, praying, believing ... love is patient.
Like a mother waits, minute by minute, as curfew comes and curfew goes ... and prayers rise up, "Oh, Lord, keep him safe ... keep your eye on her" ... love is patient.
Like a mother prays ... week by week ... month by month ... year by year ... for God to become as much a reality in her child's life as the friends they swear they cannot go a day without ... love is patient.
Like a mother who grieves the time--the seemingly endless time--her prodigal is away, believing, believing they will return to her heart ... to her home ... love is patient.
Like a mother listens ... word by word, sentence by sentence, descriptive word by descriptive word ... as her adult child tells her of the "man of her dreams" or "the girl he is going to marry" and she knows that nothing in their relationship will ever be the same again ... love is patient.

Like a grandmother-to-be waits for her baby's baby's arrival and she knows of all that's necessary for what will follow ... love is patient.
by Eva Marie Everson
c. 2013

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Cranberry Fizz Cocktail (non-alcoholic)

Just in time for Christmas!


Bring this to your next get-together and become the hit of the party. I love this drink!

Ingredients
4 cups cranberry juice cocktail
1 cup grapefruit juice
1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups ginger ale

Mix together. Chill. Serve garnished with sliced lemons, oranges and cranberries ...

(You can also double the recipe or adjust to your own taste.)

Friday, December 20, 2013

Southern Leaves

I watched a leaf fall
photo c by Eva Marie Everson 2008
                 to the ground today
Alone in its dance
                 twirling ... twirling ...
I wondered as I watched it fall
if it could possibly know
                 at all
that it fell so gracefully
         to the earth
                 to die

c Eva Marie Everson 2013