Archive for March 2014
Going Grey
Posted on: March 12, 2014
As I grow older my hair is starting to go grey.
It has a mind of its own I would say.
Why is it that the hair is so coarse and wiry?
I wish that grey hair would not last and came with an expiry.
It demands attention even when you don’t
As it shoots up like a spring every time that you are out.
Here I go and make myself look pretty in makeup and high heels
But again the grey hair takes centre stage
In popping right out like it feels;
“Is that a grey hair I see?“
Says my friend who is sitting next to me,
“Oh my, there are actually three!!!`
Oh great, I just wish I could pull each strand
Rather than letting them just be,
As they have become such a bother to hide
But unfortunately I have been told if you pull one,
Many attend its funeral and then reside.
They say these grey hairs represent wisdom
But in my eyes they are caused from stress that comes.
Some of us like to cover them up with colour
Or with stain, as my husband likes to call it;
Others let theirs shine because
They are proud and not afraid to admit.
Be happy with who you are, whether you are grey,
Bald, curly or straight,
For no matter what you will always look great.
Because after all you are a gift that GOD did beautifully create.
Written By: Diane Van Bommel
(Pictures are from netanimations.net)
Life’s Embarrassing Moments
Posted on: March 8, 2014
Life has some very embarrassing moments you will find.
It happens to all of us in just a matter of time.
You would be surprised at how many have
Had these moments happen to them.
But some would not care to admit out of embarrassment,
For fear it would cause even more mayhem.
Have you ever tripped over a carpet and scraped your knees
Or better yet gone to a restroom
And forgotten to untuck your skirt from your undies?
Maybe you even managed to get toilet paper
Stuck to your shoe
And while walking out the paper held tight as if it was glued.
What made matters worse is you didn’t properly look at the sign
And ended up in the wrong rest room at the same time;
Only to push rather than to pull the door
So the embarrassment ended up being even more.
You then began to laugh; only it came out as a snort
Instead making you wish you could deport
But unfortunately the only thing that did
Was a boogie that came from your nose.
Making your face flush from
The embarrassment it now shows.
When you finally made it outside something
White falls from the sky
Landing on your head, oh my!
It came from that huge bird that just flew by.
To make matters worse you were meeting a friend
In just a few short minutes,
So you felt you could almost now cry.
On the way to see your friend you didn’t watch where you were going
And stepped in dog poo.
Unfortunately, you didn’t realize it until your friend said,
What is that smell, pee-yew?
You looked down at your shoe and oh no,
This aroma was coming from no other than you.
When you smiled and managed to laugh.
Your friend looked at you kind of funny
As between your teeth was leftover
Peanut butter and honey;
The two of you then sat on a bench to talk
But then you decided to get up and walk
Only to find that gum was stuck to where you had sat
And you thought to yourself
Who was the brat that did that?
The gum was now sticking to your bum
Making you feel as though you
Were going to explode and have a sudden tantrum.
That day was getting cold for it wasn’t very sunny
So you decide to go home
As today you were feeling sort of crummy.
On the way home you thought you noticed another
Dear friend so you scream,” HELLO TOMMY!!!!”
Only to find out it wasn’t who you thought but a stranger
Who looked at you kind of funny
Because it wasn’t even a he but actually a her,
The female kind;
That stranger must have thought you had lost your mind.
You thought I should just get home
Because I don’t want this day getting any worse,
For it felt as though your day had been cursed.
As you finally made it in your door
You looked down and realized
You had left open the barn door.
Oh no, the pants you had changed into the zipper was open,
Making it look like your trousers had then tore.
Today, you thought wow in everything that happened to you
That you must have looked like an eye sore.
Luckily, tomorrow is a new day
And happiness you will once again get to explore.
And you can put behind all that happened at your front door,
Including all the embarrassments of today
Because most things will be forgotten in a day,
At least that’s what you’re hoping that they may.
Written By:
Diane Van Bommel
(Photos taken from free stock photos on google)
(I wrote this writing because I thought sometimes we take our lives a little too serious at times and we forget to take the time to laugh. I hope that I am able to bring a smile to your face and somehow manage to also make you laugh.)
This is Not Good-bye
Posted on: March 7, 2014
Many years have passed since you went away;
If only you didn’t have to leave and you could have stayed.
Then I wouldn’t have been missing you so much today.
I still hang on to the memories each and every day.
It is what gets me through and allows me to feel okay.
There are so many things I wish we would have done
You always made me smile and made life rather fun.
To say good-bye is always hard to do
That’s why I chose then not to.
Because it is not forever that we shall be apart
I know that because of what is deep within my heart.
My faith tells me this is so
And that is why I know.
We shall be together again
As in GOD’S promise future of eternity life
To which we will later gain.
Written: Diane Van Bommel
Sometimes when a child is young
And picks the surface of their sore for fun,
From their banged or scraped up knee,
The scab falls off and blood re-emerges for others to see.
If only they were to leave it alone, that pain would eventually ease.
But instead the soreness from it resurfaces,
Making it feel like the pain from it will never go away
Until that wound finally closes.
The same goes for the emotional pain we may carry,
As in holding grudges to others who may have wronged you
And because of that your anger never leaves.
The wound you carry from the pain can never close
Because you reopen it, every time you refuse to forgive
Or refuse to forget, as that is the way of life that you chose to live.
Sometimes that person who hurt you so badly,
You feel in your heart they don’t deserve any type of forgiveness, sadly.
Because how can they, from what they have all done to you?
As they managed to put your life upside down and in bestrew.
They should have said, “Sorry”
But sometimes these words may never come to be,
So forgiving them doesn’t come very easily
Because some people can be very stubborn, you see.
But, if you choose to hold on to that grudge,
You are letting the other person empower you
For the pain is carried in your heart now weighing you down too,
Whereas that other person may not even give it another thought or two.
When you finally open your heart now to forgive,
It is like putting an ointment on your wound in allowing it to finally heal.
Eventually with the help of prayer that pain
That has burdened you for so long,
Will no longer be there so the sadness you will no longer feel
And for once in your life, that anger will not steal
Any happiness brought into your in life because that joy is real.
Written By: Diane Van Bommel
(Inspired by a priest, Fr. Ben, from his Mission at our church. He had some wise words for every one that I thought I would like to put out there, for we can all hopefully learn from them. Please, reach down into that heart of yours in finding the strength to forgive those who may have hurt you. When you choose to make that decision, happiness and freedom will await you.)
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