If you’re lost you can look–and you will find me Time after time If you fall I will catch you–I’ll be waiting Time after time
–Cyndi Lauper, “Time after Time”
A few days ago, my son was blowing off pine straw from our roof. His daughter stood on the patio below, watching. “If you fall, I’ll catch you, Daddy.”
She’s three years old and not as tall as the avocado plant she was standing beside. He’s thirty and six feet two. But she’s going to catch him? The truth is she already has. Time after Time.
Of course, I don’t mean a physical catching She has caught him with arms that extend from her heart, with arms of Trust, with arms of Love. (more…)
Translating a World on the Edge 