Monday, November 03, 2003
Day 1105,
Here is an email I sent to R, she's struggling right now, I hope this can help anyone who comes accross my site.
I went to a memorial service on Saturday for one of my best friends. His older brother was 22 and died of a Heroin overdose last Friday. Friends and family all pulled together last weekend and did car washes on Saturday and Sunday to raise money for his service. It was beautiful, at least 150 -200 people were there. They put this poem on the memorial program:
Don't grieve for me for now I'm free.
I'm following the path God laid for me.
I took his hand when I heard him call.
I turned my back and left it all.
I could not stay another day,
To laugh, to love, to work or play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way,
I've found that peace at the close of day.
If my parting has left a void,
Then fill it with remembered joy.
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss,
Ah yes, these things I too will miss.
Be not burdened with times of sorrow,
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My life's be full I've savored much,
Good times, good friends, a loved one's touch.
Perhaps my time seemed all to brief,
Don't lengthen it now with undo grief.
Life up your heart and share with me,
God wanted me now, he set me free.
We all have opportunities to live beautiful lives. Lives that we couldn't have planned, if only we are going to get out of the way. Our fear, our grief, resentment, worry, pride, ambition, arrogance, etc. all get in the way of us being guided to our destiny. Please have faith and trust. You have gone down into the deepest and darkest depth of life that very few do. And of those that go down almost none make it back. But you made it back, and then continued to climb. You've stood on high vistas and looked out over pastures and meadows, and saw the splendid glory of life. And then you looked up and say you could climb higher, and so you did. And while climbing you went into a crevasse and couldn't see anything, only rock and struggle surrounded you. You couldn't see where you had been, where you were, or where you were going, only that there was work to be done. Faced with this your faith told you to keep climbing, and you came out of that hole, a hole on a high mountain, to find that it had only been a slight dip an ever increasing slope, and you thought "why did I almost quit?". And the view was spectacular, and you knew joy and you new peace, but then would come the moment, the one where you looked down to where you came from, were grateful for where you were, and then you looked up to where you had to go ....
I went to a memorial service on Saturday for one of my best friends. His older brother was 22 and died of a Heroin overdose last Friday. Friends and family all pulled together last weekend and did car washes on Saturday and Sunday to raise money for his service. It was beautiful, at least 150 -200 people were there. They put this poem on the memorial program:
Don't grieve for me for now I'm free.
I'm following the path God laid for me.
I took his hand when I heard him call.
I turned my back and left it all.
I could not stay another day,
To laugh, to love, to work or play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way,
I've found that peace at the close of day.
If my parting has left a void,
Then fill it with remembered joy.
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss,
Ah yes, these things I too will miss.
Be not burdened with times of sorrow,
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My life's be full I've savored much,
Good times, good friends, a loved one's touch.
Perhaps my time seemed all to brief,
Don't lengthen it now with undo grief.
Life up your heart and share with me,
God wanted me now, he set me free.
We all have opportunities to live beautiful lives. Lives that we couldn't have planned, if only we are going to get out of the way. Our fear, our grief, resentment, worry, pride, ambition, arrogance, etc. all get in the way of us being guided to our destiny. Please have faith and trust. You have gone down into the deepest and darkest depth of life that very few do. And of those that go down almost none make it back. But you made it back, and then continued to climb. You've stood on high vistas and looked out over pastures and meadows, and saw the splendid glory of life. And then you looked up and say you could climb higher, and so you did. And while climbing you went into a crevasse and couldn't see anything, only rock and struggle surrounded you. You couldn't see where you had been, where you were, or where you were going, only that there was work to be done. Faced with this your faith told you to keep climbing, and you came out of that hole, a hole on a high mountain, to find that it had only been a slight dip an ever increasing slope, and you thought "why did I almost quit?". And the view was spectacular, and you knew joy and you new peace, but then would come the moment, the one where you looked down to where you came from, were grateful for where you were, and then you looked up to where you had to go ....
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