Category Archives: Poetry

The Oneness of Love!

Posted on September 17, 2019 by thebows99krug

Pat wrote in her diary, “I think I can face anything if Eric is by my side.”  That is love; it is two being one. Pat wrote in one of my favourite poems (12th Anniversary poem) that she knew me, … Continue reading →

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Yes Love is forever!

Posted on September 9, 2019 by thebows99krug

I am heart, soul, and mind in one body; our two bodies by marriage united into one. When my beloved died, we remained still one, but something was lost, and it just might be the mind or more accurately all … Continue reading →

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God and Us II

Posted on July 29, 2019 by thebows99krug

C. S. Lewis attempting to describe his own mystical event, says, “I felt as if I were a man of snow at long last beginning to melt. The melting was starting in my back—drip-drip and presently trickle-trickle. I rather disliked … Continue reading →

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Marriage united us as one

Posted on July 25, 2019 by thebows99krug

Pat truly understood what it means for two to become one when she wrote: “12th Anniversary Poem (fragments) 1981” “I know the scent and shape of you: I know you all, yet not at all. I linger with a connoisseur’s … Continue reading →

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The answer to Why

Posted on June 6, 2019 by thebows99krug

“The other momentous phrase that Jesus repeated at the Last Supper is the phrase “for you”. In the accounts of Matthew, Mark and Luke — and in Paul’s too (1 Corinthians 11:24ff.) — Jesus says, my body “given for you,””broken … Continue reading →

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Love and Marriage and Grief

Posted on May 25, 2019 by thebows99krug

Love needs an object; only saints can learn to love without an object. At first, we love only ourselves and our care giver; some never get past this aggressive self love. Most people need another human being, lover, friend, sibling, … Continue reading →

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Grief two years 4 months later.

Posted on April 24, 2019 by thebows99krug

In the early stages of grief we barely care about anything because the worst has happened. We walk in darkness. Eventually, if we believe, that empty hole around our heart is filled with the Presence of our beloved and we … Continue reading →

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Joined together in the sight of God!

Posted on April 8, 2019 by thebows99krug

To love someone “in God” is to love them for their own sake and not for what they do for me. Soulmate love is agape not erotic love. Agape love is selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love. It is the highest of … Continue reading →

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Why is Dying so hard?

Posted on April 7, 2019 by thebows99krug

In her last week Patricia Bow asked about dying, “Why is it so hard?” She also wrote: ” I hate the fact that I am making several loved people unhappy.” The thing about dying is that no one wants you to die. … Continue reading →

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One with God

Posted on April 4, 2019 by thebows99krug

Last night I dreamt Patricia Bow and I were swimming in a blue lagoon (Yes think the movie “The Blue Lagoon 1980”) and after I awoke I lay in bed thinking; these thoughts came to mind: The Gospel says God and Heaven … Continue reading →

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