The Wailing Wall

I went to see the movie "The secret life of bees" it was interesting and strange on many levels. There was a character / sub-plot that grabbed me...I believe the characters name was Ms. May, she had lost her twin-sister to death and since that time was never "right" mentally. The members of her house hold came up with a way to release her pain when it became to much of a burden for her...Ms. May would go to the back-yard and write down her pain/sorrow on a piece of paper, fold it up and stick it into the man-made stone wall...a mini version of the wailing wall in Jerusalem. This scene in the movie struck me because in March of 2005 I did this very act. I stood at the wailing wall in Jerusalem at about 1am and wrote private matters on to paper and placed them in the cracks of the literal wailing wall. I was about five weeks pregnant with Zachary and did not know it. For the last three years the wailing wall has been a theme of my life a symbol of my own journey, so you can imagine the flood of emotions that washed over me in the movie theater not prepared for the message sent to me. As a new year approaches and a new chapter of life unfolds I read a quote today that sums up the last three years and the choice to walk forward with the Friend that is my past, my present and my future...the quote read:
"Make your wailing wall your throne of praise, overcome those things that have overcome you."
There is eternal life in Christ and eternity starts...NOW! Blessings for 2009 and beyond.