Loving Kindness

I wrote an earlier blog about what I think about when I lap swim.

Each time we swim, I do eight laps of the American Crawl; nine laps with the back stroke, and three laps breast stroke. With each lap when I’m doing the American Crawl, I think of one person and think: May you be happy May you be safe. May you be healthy. May you be peaceful. By the time the week is over, I have done laps for all my brothers and sisters, DeRay & I and our children and their spouses; and our grandchildren, including the “unborn ones”.

Lucy is the only one who has died.

I can’t help myself, when I do her lap, I think:

“May you be happy. Is there anything but happiness in heaven? There isn’t any sadness, is there?”

“May you be safe? Is there danger in heaven? You don’t feel threatened to you?”

“May you be healthy? Is there illness, disease, pain in heaven? Isn’t everyone healthy?”

“May you be peaceful? Is there anything but peace in heaven? Are there wars? Strife?”

Still wondering.

And also, what language do you speak?