Our Journey Together

Our journey together 

You have your friends and your family

And then you have your people

Coming alongside one another in the journey

Seeing your family grow through trial, joys, pain and victories

Poetry has been written about these roads we travel together

Rejoicing when we see them succeed

[Pause] , we lift up,

 to take it all in together

Wind comes and wind passes

but we don't know where it comes from, fleeting gusts

Providence, chance, luck, random factors

Mountains high and valleys low 

your people were there

Spring rain, sweltering heat, brisk wind in your face, 

and of course the falling 

the falling leaves, the drifting down 

Can a structure really be built that lasts between people 

Can love for one another preserve, 

Does love bridge the heartaches, the division, and years of Jubilee

Can love and care really save the day? I think so!

Can words we thought unimportant lift spirits from the depth? I think so!

Carrying on is possible through shattered, harsh, days- grace make a way.

Do we hand down this love,

this love for family, friends, and people automatically

"Seeds planted years before bearing fruit"

" Faithful friendships. Changed lives."

 "collapse, and you have to create something new."

The time of life we're in now 

is to watch in some respects

Yet "Life keeps pushing at you, it pushes at you, it pushes at you

"Watching another generation tell the story with such love and conviction reminded me that a legacy is never handed down automatically. Every generation has to decide whether they will carry it forward." 1

About this poem:  Our Journey Together is a poem about family,friends and people that are dearest to you and purposefully carrying this love and legacy forward. It's about looking back on decades of friendships and realizing there's really just a few real close that have been there all along with you. And it's this journey that we hope to watch as it's pushed forward to generations that follow. -Joe Holuta.

1. -V. Elizabeth Perkins 

Two clouds now three years

Two clouds now three years 

When I think of thee
Maudey V
I think of the wonder of "two clouds" 
"two" 
now three


And the wonder of time 
Your love of reading and rhyme
So, fast the years a blink
Pictures capturing your uniqueness and how you think


About the love you have for sister and cousins and such
Starlings hovering and together so much 
Your big sister's care 
And keeping and hugs you bear 


When you question something, your eyes light up
Ready to learn and not a care where we wind up
Even when you see something unacquainted 
Lamb' ear, flowers, or tree leaves falling and fainted


We walk to see the city together
Scrapes and bruises along the way
Oh, I hope we could do this forever
Day after day after day

It’s said time flies as a breeze as lavender in the wind
As a breath, a passing mist so kind

Our prayer is for us to build more and more memories as fly the years

Our heart is to see more and hear your voice more on this spinning sphere

"No eye has ever surveyed the world and said, "I have seen enough";

no ear has ever listened to creation and said, "I have heard enough."1

About this poem: Two clouds now three years is a poem about the third birthday of Maude Veltri. Jayne and I have had the joy and blessing to see Maudey grow these last three years!  Emily Ann and Zach pour their lives into their lovely daughters Maude and Winter and it truly is taking root in their beautiful lives. 
Maudes love of reading books, her bright gestures and play time with Frozen characters with Nana warm my heart, forever! - Joe Holuta.

1 Ecclesiastes 1: 8 voice