Poem: Seeing Above

~ In Memory of All Godly Grandparents ~

My maternal grandfather died on a Memorial Day weekend. In memory of all Godly grandparents I am sharing the following poem which he wrote.

Seeing Above

If we notice little pleasures
As we notice little pains,
If we quite forget our losses
And remember all our gains,
If we look at people’s virtues
And their faults refuse to see,
What a comfortable happy place
This woeful world might be.

~ Dr. Walter Emerson Bavis
December 10, 1872 – May 30, 1961

Dr. Bavis was kind of a renaissance man. During his life he was a one-room school teacher, mayor, justice of the peace, and a versatile “jack of all trades.” After his first wife died during childbirth he questioned why any woman should have to die that way. He went back to school and became a medical doctor. Later he married a nurse and had five more children including my mother.