Focus On What Lies Ahead

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This husband of mine…

Likes to visit cemeteries…walk the grounds…read the headstones…think about their stories…

Visited one a couple years back in that Texas town of ours…an old cemetery…a small cemetery…a cemetery where some of the founding fathers still lie…

The first school teacher…first families…first government officials…recognized names after visiting the town museum and reading tales by a local author…

In the center was machinery…a sign describing some groundbreaking…the building of a special central seating area…decided to go back and see the new addition…celebrate progress…

But that was not to be…for it appears over the last two years no work had been done…the groundbreaking now just a hole full of weeds…in fact much of the place was now filled with weeds…

And so it is…in life…those plans…those dreams…sometimes stall…don’t go the way we wish…

Have hope…keep moving forward…leave the ghosts of the past in the past…and focus…on what lies ahead…
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And this husband of mine…agrees…