CONDOLENCES…IMCOMING SALVO…5 AUG. A.D. 2022

BLESSINGS TO THE FLOCK EXPERIENCING LOSS,

Some words at least for me have very little meaning when said by those close
or even from strangers.
Condolences is one of those words to me.
Here are two definitions for condolences from separate sources:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/condolence

Jul 25, 2022 … Condolence and Condolences … When used in the singular, condolence generally refers to sympathetic sorrow, and particularly sorrow with regard …

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/condolence

A condolence is an expression of sympathy and sorrow to someone who has suffered a loss, like the letter of condolence 
you send to a faraway friend who has…

You may ask yourself what is the poet saying in this poem:

 No Condolences

Seventeen weeks post-treatment

Doc asks me

was it worth it?

Compared to what, I say,

being dead?

Which reminded me

of emptying Dad’s

assistive living apartment

carrying clothes and furniture

past a little old man sitting on a bench

in the shade outside the front door.

On the sixth or seventh pass

I apologized:

excuse me, I’ve been gone

from town for nearly forty-five years

and I know I should know you

but I just can’t recall …

He said, I’m Tom Holst.

Ah, you were on MacArthur’s staff

and our Scout leader.

Yes, he continued, I’m sorry

I can’t offer you any condolences

for Barney.

I’ve been sitting here nine years

waiting to die

and he jumped the line ahead of me!

Frank Poduska

Sometimes words come up so short of conveying sympathy to another.
We need to meet the person suffering and join in their suffering in all sincerity and be led by the Spirit to what is on the grieved one's heart.

https://biblehub.com/john/11-35.htm

Verse 35. – Jesus wept. The shortest verse, but one of the most suggestive in the entire Scripture. The great wrath against death is subdued now …

INCOMING SALVO…YESHUA (JESUS) BRINGS US PEACE…5 AUG. A.D. 2022 
COUNTING IT ALL JOY 
Ron

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