CLARENCE and MARY SPEARS

50th ANNIVERSARY

WINDS OF TIME

The winds of time roll on and another

year has come and gone.

How can it  possibly be eleven years

since you left to go home.

How often I think of you and some little

thing you shared with me....

or that I would like to share with you now.

So many times in a moment....I can just

get real lonesome for you.

Sometimes it is like the very troubles

of this earth are rolling over me.

Did you ever feel that way Mom?

I know from your diary that you were

alot more spiritual then people

would have ever guessed.

Time helps heal that horrible

crushing pain of grief

that makes the first year

Feel like a thousand hours a day.

What I miss about you most is your

kindness, honesty, integrity,

your faith in humans

As well as your faith in God.

Your death helped me to reach

for that faith that you held with

such a firm grasp.

A faith that would not fail you day or night

A faith in a God that would not forsake you

when all others of this world were so

insensitive to your pain, your fears

The place were the world forced you to

go even though you least of all the family deserved it.

My one consolation is that one day

We will be together again.

Gods promise is for all who call out his name

..........and I call out for Him.

The winds of time roll on and no one

knows what we will go through.

Winds have a way of changing just

when you get adjusted to their

direction and strength.

Winds have an effect on whatever

comes in their pathway

Winds can bring refreshment and

relief  or cause terrible

havoc on what it touches.

Sometimes my life feels much like

the winds of time.

Sometimes gentle, sometimes complete

havoc, sometimes the calm

before the storm.

Whatever the winds of this world

blow in I thank God

that I can call out His name.

I thank God that with all the uncertainty

this old world has to offer

That I can find certainty in Him.

I thank God that when the people of this world

forsake me....He never will.

I thank Him for His love

sometimes sent by others

in a form that surprises them as

well as me.

God is so good to me and I must

grasp that concept that

the people of  this world will let me

down, not because they really want to,

but because they are of this

world and are blind to His love

to faith or knowledge of His ways.

Of all the things I have to be thank full

for Mom, I thank you most for the

     faith which you shard for all to see

in your times of trouble.

As the winds of time continue to blow in

my days ahead you have given me the one thing

No one can take away......FAITH!

written by Helen Burley

In memory of her Mom Mary Spears

January 2000

JOHN, HELEN

TRACEY, BILL