Remembering Liam

A year ago today our faith community lost one of our most courageous and compassionate members, Liam Lowe. If you read here at the page you might have noticed a link above to Liam's Wells, Liam's still ongoing effort to help dig wells in Third World villages who lack clean water sources. Last year when I wrote about Liam many of you generously donated to Liam's Wells.

Liam was incredibly creative and a wonderful artist. This last fall much of Liam's artwork was displayed in a show at the Abilene Center for Contemporary Arts which was covered in this article in the Abilene Reporter News.

During Liam's 14-month battle with leukemia I wrote a few poems trying to capture and express the grief many of us were experiencing at our church. This was one of them:

There is so much sadness
in the world.
And the edges of it
so icy and sharp--
the territory of our bleeding.
And there a numbness
too cold for weeping.
But deep inside
the concavity of pain
there is a warmth--
the ache of love--
that thaws all loss
to the torrent and dew
of grief.