Strangers From the Past
By Larry Linville
I’ve moved around a lot.
Many people have I known.
It’s a lot like a gardener
after many seeds are sown.
No matter where I seem to be
I often am aghast
when I least expect it
there’s someone from my past.
Sometimes it’s someone I have known
whose name I can’t recall
when eating at a restaurant
or shopping at a mall.
I visit with a stranger
who is completely new.
We find they know someone
and I have known them too.
When we share our lives with folks
as we live upon this earth
God will take those experiences
and give them added worth.
This happened just the other night
when I made a hospital call.
One I thought would be a stranger
was an acquaintance after all.
© Copyright 2007 Larry Linville (UN: larrylinville at Writing.Com).
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1 comment:
I think this is a good thing---for all of us---takes us back to our past and those people that were in our lives and helped us get where we are today
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