Everybody thinks I'm fine. They think I'm great. I make them laugh. I swoon over life...Everybody thinks I'm strong... I'm the one who never gives up. I'm the one who fights, and keeps fighting. Everybody thinks I'm indestructible. They think so, and then wait for me to fail. I'm the one running off the cliff. I'm flying, with no wings.
And there I am; the one nobody sees, clinging to your flickering in the dark--hope of hope, dancing from shadow to shadow like a nocturnal butterfly. I am the one praying this all works out, trembling over my children while they sleep. I am the one praying my worry away on long walks up into the English hills.I am the one, weak and wanting, waiting for a word from the Word--I cannot bear when the silence comes.And it does.And so, the impatient one, must wait and walk, walk and wait. For the unseen pulls me on, and into silence I walk, into silence I wait. I find, there in the silence, the unnerving presence of a giant, a spirit, the Phantom. In my flesh I push on the Phantom, wrestling him to the ground, yelling, crying, accusing and demanding. I push on him. He does not give, but he takes it."Why do you not answer," I growl as we tumble down the countryside. "Do you not care?" And then he pins me, and stares at me, and dives into me and, with new eyes, I see as through his eyes, I hear with his ears, and roll over in the hillside mud, embarrassed of my doubt, shamed for my impatience, abashed for my lack of listening.Then, he comes out me, offers his hand, and pulls me out of the mud."Gather yourself...The world is coming. And you must be strong ... in me."
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| On the way out of the locker room. |
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| "That's where Datsyuk sits to put on his skates!!!!" |
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| Getting ready to head out on Red Wing ice |
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| You always need a Zamboni shot |
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| My girl has gotten so good on skates just from our backyard! |
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| Mommy trying very hard to keep this little man off the ice. |
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| Mini Red Wing |
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| Seeing how the Wings bench feels |
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| Helping each other |
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| Desperately trying to see what's going on |
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| Zoey and Mason on the Wing bench |
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| Isaac coming out of the Wings bench |
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| Jakey getting ready to run out from were the Wings enter the game. |
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| Ice tag on the ice |
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| Sitting on the bench with my babies |
