Erika Ching

When I think of you -

I think of what we've been through;

a wringer, it was!

I want you to know...

Erks, through it all - I love you.

I'm so proud of you.

Walk always

in Beauty.

---<--@

Beauty seem woeful and static when associated only with externals. Its meaning can never be confined to the merely physical.

For beauty is the virtue of those whose art is life.

Indeed, there is something true about the beautiful that escapes time and place...

So trust in God, Erika, and walk always in Beauty.

Natalie

Petite, erudite,
shining with another light,
beautiful and bright.

Hollywood glamour
was never your life's measure;
means to better ends.

Your starlight
is your own.
---<--@

I simply refuse to believe the Black Swan rumors...

Life is Hard

There's nothing easy

about this life - we all must -
climb the mountain path.

The one easy thing
is to quit the fight and fall
backwards, to the dust.

But we have
each other.
---<--@

Life is a Warfare

Life is a battle,
a war to end all wars - fought -
from within the soul.

Christ is our vict'ry
set your hearts upon Him - and -
never quit the fight.

A will lost,
loses all.
---<--@

God Alone

What must we live for
in this world of endless strife
eclipsed by much death?

We are not from here,
life here is not possession
but a confession.

God Alone,
that is all!
---<--@

Music of the Heart

In the soul is song
the music of our witness;
the hymn of our lives...

An ode to our LORD
Who gave us reason to sing
letting each song be...

We are song,
one music.
---<--@

Sports

Sports is discipline,
the discipline of motion -
the language of life...

The medium of play,
venues for togetherness,
fostering friendships.

It's virtue
is justice.
---<--@

Art of Life

Life to be lived - must
in Beauty be realized,
as Her expression...

This motion is art,
it paints, acts, sings, and creates;
it fills with colors...

Art reminds,
remembers.
---<--@

School

What we learn in school,
we learn from others, from teachers,
who teach us of truth.

What we learn from life,
we learn through others, from the LORD,
Who teach us of self.

Learning is
forever.
---<--@

Change

The heart that stands still,
is the peace that keeps it's will
in the maelstrom.

All around ourselves,
moments flee, time ticks, scenes change,
until there's stillness.

Life is change,
so keep still.
---<--@

Death

Death is mystery
a veil of shadow and tears
and feared by many...

Yet death is a help
that life may be lived with love:
The sum of our faith.

To lose Love
is to die.
---<--@

Pink Flowers

Pink flowers in bloom -

fragility, tenderness...

sweet like my Anne.

Pink is for softness.

Gentler than red for braveness.

Like a sweet embrace.

Pink reminds

me of her.

---<--@

(light pink, actually...)

The Best Things

The best things in life

are often things we can't see

that the heart perceives.

The best things in life

are often things we can't hear

that our heart receives.

The best things

are not things.

---<--@