The long-dead leap to life.
They smile between bites of watermelon.
Our youth restored, we run along
the beaches of memory.
Families are reunited; lost friends return;
and just by running the tape backwards
broken things can be mended.
—Elaine Parker Akin

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up;
do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.” – Isaiah 43:18-19

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