Changing4Best
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First my friend Pat died the Wednesday before last. Then last week one of my best friends' husbands died, then yesterday another friend died.
I know that death is a part of life. I know these folks, all 3 of them, are no longer suffering and that is GOOD. However, I miss them or know that I will miss them in the near future. Right now I am just kind of shocked, as this last one had seemed to be doing better after a round of chemo not long ago. I am disheartened that I guess it did not work for long, or maybe something else happened. I don't know the cause of death in the 2nd and 3rd cases. The first one had COPD, so I can gather that is what took her life.
Two of these folks had not even reached the age of 80 yet. I think the other one had.
My parents are both dead. My husband is dead too. I was never able to have kids. So, basically, I am all alone in this world. Most of the time I like it that way, but not when folks die! That is a different kind of aloneness. Not one that I like.
My father was 88 when he died. I remember him saying that EVERYONE he knew had died. This was not quite true, as a few folks that had known him showed up for his memorial service. Quite a few, in fact. However, they were generally younger than he had been, remembering him as their plumber or a member of their church or something. One was a friend who was 92!
Ironically, the meanest member of our family lived to be 102. This just isn't fair! How come the nicer ones could not have lived that long instead? Ah well. We have never been promised that life would be fair. That is for sure!
The Bible says that death is the wages of sin. I don't just see that as our own death. Each time someone dies, in my way of thinking, that is just one more wage that we earned for some sin or other we committed....
None the less, Rest In Peace, my friends and loved ones.
I know that death is a part of life. I know these folks, all 3 of them, are no longer suffering and that is GOOD. However, I miss them or know that I will miss them in the near future. Right now I am just kind of shocked, as this last one had seemed to be doing better after a round of chemo not long ago. I am disheartened that I guess it did not work for long, or maybe something else happened. I don't know the cause of death in the 2nd and 3rd cases. The first one had COPD, so I can gather that is what took her life.
Two of these folks had not even reached the age of 80 yet. I think the other one had.
My parents are both dead. My husband is dead too. I was never able to have kids. So, basically, I am all alone in this world. Most of the time I like it that way, but not when folks die! That is a different kind of aloneness. Not one that I like.
My father was 88 when he died. I remember him saying that EVERYONE he knew had died. This was not quite true, as a few folks that had known him showed up for his memorial service. Quite a few, in fact. However, they were generally younger than he had been, remembering him as their plumber or a member of their church or something. One was a friend who was 92!
Ironically, the meanest member of our family lived to be 102. This just isn't fair! How come the nicer ones could not have lived that long instead? Ah well. We have never been promised that life would be fair. That is for sure!
The Bible says that death is the wages of sin. I don't just see that as our own death. Each time someone dies, in my way of thinking, that is just one more wage that we earned for some sin or other we committed....
None the less, Rest In Peace, my friends and loved ones.
