As I sit here with my father, brothers and sister comforting my dying mother, she continues to teach us as she continues her final steps to God's eternal love. I felt a powerful urge to share two thoughts that she spoke last night. The words speak deeply on their own. It is my mother's gift to all of you for you to share with others.
What is life? Life is prayer.
Prayer was for us before we knew what it was about.
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Creating Memories
"One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering." -Ida Scott Taylor
I am spending these days with my dying mother, Rose Marie Gale-Primm. Along with my father, sister and brothers, it is a time that we have known would come and we are experiencing so many emotions. There are many that have gone through this before us and many that will do so after we have grieved.
But for now, we are reminiscing with her as she prepares to take her final breath. The Lord is giving us these final days after having blessed us with so many. You see, back in March of this year (2008) she was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. It was already advanced and most Pancreatic cancers are once found will result in a rapid decline.
The average life span is less then 6 months so we feel fortunate that Dr. Solomon Haroon in Fremont, Nebraska has done an excellent job in treating her. We are so thankful for the absolutely wonderful work he has done. Yet now we are in our time of hospice, in giving Mom a comfortable place to find the peace she so deserves.
We don't grieve of past pain or issues, we live to make life worth remembering. That in the end, we can truly say what a great time we have had with each other. This week we are creating wonderful memories even in the saddest of times.
When our mother finally passes, it will be with the full knowledge of the love she has given to so many people. It will also be with the full knowledge of the love that so many of you have shown her. Take a few moments to tell those you know that you love them, create a moment worth remembering.
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I am spending these days with my dying mother, Rose Marie Gale-Primm. Along with my father, sister and brothers, it is a time that we have known would come and we are experiencing so many emotions. There are many that have gone through this before us and many that will do so after we have grieved.
But for now, we are reminiscing with her as she prepares to take her final breath. The Lord is giving us these final days after having blessed us with so many. You see, back in March of this year (2008) she was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. It was already advanced and most Pancreatic cancers are once found will result in a rapid decline.
The average life span is less then 6 months so we feel fortunate that Dr. Solomon Haroon in Fremont, Nebraska has done an excellent job in treating her. We are so thankful for the absolutely wonderful work he has done. Yet now we are in our time of hospice, in giving Mom a comfortable place to find the peace she so deserves.
We don't grieve of past pain or issues, we live to make life worth remembering. That in the end, we can truly say what a great time we have had with each other. This week we are creating wonderful memories even in the saddest of times.
When our mother finally passes, it will be with the full knowledge of the love she has given to so many people. It will also be with the full knowledge of the love that so many of you have shown her. Take a few moments to tell those you know that you love them, create a moment worth remembering.
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Monday, October 06, 2008
Helping Hand
Peyton Conway March said, "There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else." This past weekend I tried to impart some of that to roughly 85 men that attended a Men's Conference.
This conference was three nights, two days of teaching, learning and general brotherhood of guys looking to experience something greater in their lives. Some were impacted in huge ways and others found small things to take away. In all cases, lives were moved in ways only they will know.
But it does not require a conference for you to impact the lives of another. It only takes a caring heart for others. If you simply give a small piece of yourself to help someone else, it can have a huge change in their life.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Stock Market Tumble
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
-William Shakespeare
The events of the last day and what could turnout to be a couple of bad days is nothing new to the world at large. The good and bad economic times tend to 'come and go' in sporadic cycles. As the picture depicts, the 'bubbles' are chased and eventually those 'bubbles' break.
The hardest part is trying to keep your wits about you and to not let fear grip your entire being. Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 said, "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." This current economic crisis is no different.
Now is the time to read and learn as much as you can. In doing so, you will better understand what is happening, it will lessen your fear and give the ability to make smarter choices. There is a great cartoon by Gary Larson, which shows a bunch of lemmings walking down and into the water. About half way up in the crowd of lemmings, one is wearing a life preserve ring. He is going where circumstance is taking him, but he is prepared.
As Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "Buy the ticket, take the Ride." You're here and life is not going away. Prepare yourself, let go of fear and enjoy the ride.
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