Frank Lamb Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Dear Santa: What do I ask this year? I have perused each ad in my mailbox, pored over the colorful ads in the newspaper. So many lovely things, and yet I need nothing. I realize this as I walk up the hill on my strong legs. I can hear the air fill my lungs. I feel the cold on my cheeks. I smell the smoke of the fire that warms my home. I see the snow-capped mountains and the slate gray river peppered with fat geese. I need nothing: there are people who love me. There are people who forgive my sometimes wretched temper and who touch me with loving hands. There are neighbors who smile in the store. There are shopkeepers who are tolerant when I don’t have enough money. There are kind faces in public places. There is a fat pregnant cat who sneaks into my garage. Dogs and other cats share my hearth; I love to feel their fur with my feet. There are hawks that teach their young of flight, right there behind my house. There are deer that tiptoe into my yard and savor the fat apples in the snow. Rows of glassed vegetables; green beans, tomatoes, peas and carrots color my pantry. And a rusty bucket of hand tools and neatly dried seeds promises next year’s riches. I need nothing! Christmas promises already fulfilled redeem my foolish life, and occasionally I glimpse the feast that awaits me when this earthly one is done. Today I discovered a hole in my jeans. I felt the December air slither down my leg. How mighty is the hand that sweeps the wind along the mountains. Santa, dear old soul, just give me another day like this one in my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 I need nothing either, Frank, but another day! Thanks for reminding me of that! Love ya, Kase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikkala Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Thanks for the reminder Frank. Always keeping you in prayers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyW Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 thanks Frank !! RIP Friend.. Seems quite appropriate about now in a lot of ways.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dianew Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 How true. Thanks for reposting this Randy - we all need to be reminded of this occasionally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet B Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 Thank you so much for "bumping" that up! I had never seen it before and it gave me goosebumps. I never "knew" Frank, but I wish I had, what an amazing man he must have been. The post reads like an amazing poem, begging to be illustrated. I am copying it and saving it to read and re read. What a nice gift on this cold gloomy day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 Truly a gift....The best things in life aren't things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyW Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 every once in a while I go through and find some encouraging gems..... You never know....... hugs to all of my friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyW Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Holiday bump up ... Miss Frank and Dean also ... those guys had their sense of humor going on ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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