@ Diana Yu

Diana's note.

“Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied”
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,—so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.

she asked for our input. our thoughts.

and so i responded: i once agreed with this poem...but have now found that time does, to some extent, bring relief. and so to discredit time as a pain reliever, at least for me, would be unjust in my case. although the relief i have come to know is not exclusively because time, i do believe that the timing of all things, and a certain open mindset eventually relieves a haunted heart.
the glory is for neither time or individual, but that which whose plan is sovereign above all. thanks be to the One who chooses to show mercy and grace in my life.