Just a thought.............

senile1

senile1

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Every morning we are granted the privilege of arising and greeting another special chapter in this precious voyage we call life. Sometimes, especially as we begin to age, this journey appears arduous and we may begin to loose sight of how privileged we are to have been able to journey thus far. We may become consumed with the challenges aging affords us and may loose sight of the specialness of this wonderful journey. Then one day it comes to an abrupt end, and we venture forth on a new adventure, the journey of our soul. This morning I received the news of an acquaintance being rushed to the hospital with cardiac failure, and as the ambulance was speeding forth with the family in pursuit, the ambulance suddenly turned off it's siren and decreased it's speed, a sign the patient has passed.
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No doubt you will miss your friend senile1, but perhaps a perspective to consider is that whatever he came to do, he'd accomplished and it was time to go back and rest up for the next journey.

Many of the accounts of NDE and OBE's that I've read about attest to a wonderful feeling of the most profound lightness of spirit and encompassing love and that when they return, they feel such a heaviness and weight that is through and through. And even one person who's written extensively on his experiences had recounted that our nights of sleep are so necessary because the 'weight' that drags on us through each day is exhausting and when we sleep, we return to that place of lightness and it's a time to recharge our spirits every bit as much as it might be necessary for the recharging of our physical energies.

Something that I've come to think after all my reading, is that perhaps we've got it all wrong as far as how we think when someone we care about dies. I think we should be sad because we won't see them for a while, but glad for them that they get to go back to what is apparently the source of our existence and is in itself, a most wonderful state of being/place.
 

Sorry about your friend, Senile. I try to appreciate every day and not take it for granted. Difficult not to do though.
 
When death knocks on the door next to us, it awakens us too. We think about how short life really is, and then we think about all the things we thought were so important over the years. Our thinking is deeper and I can tell you that I questioned my own existence. Just this past March, a friend and neighbor passed after a battle with ALS. She was only in her 50's but somehow embraced death with all the dignity a person could exude. Where this type of strength comes from, I'll never know. The older we get, the more we will see and hear of those we knew pass on. When I was young, I never envisioned getting older in this perspective. I knew there would be more aches, pains, and wrinkles but gave little thought about how we will all drop out of the race, one by one. So when the morning sun shines into your eyes, thank the Lord for one more beautiful day!
 
An old colleague of mine died this past Thursday. I can't say he was a friend, because I didn't really like him at all, but I had worked, sometimes very closely, with him on and of for many years. I was surprised and how odd I felt when I heard of his passing -- kind of like how the world is now a different place. It wasn't a feeling of sadness, particularly, except the sadness we feel at the passing of someone we knew. But a feeling like the characters in my life are one by one dropping out, if that makes any sense.
 
Sorry you lost your acquaintance Senile1.
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Most of us on this forum have a lot less left than lived. Just think how quickly each 20 year period in our lives has passed. Then consider the significant number of us won't be here in another 20 years. It's not 'if'... it's 'when'. Cancer, heart attack, auto accident... if we knew, life wouldn't be the journey it is. Not knowing gives us the opportunity to hug those close every day, since we don't know if there is a tomorrow. We can enjoy every day on a golf course, even though the score may be less than desired, since we don't know if we will play another round. We can look back on the good times and blank out the bad, since the past won't make any difference if there is no tomorrow.
Sorry for the loss of your acquaintance. Seems most every day I know someone listed in the obits. And, tomorrow, it may be me. That doesn't stop me from enjoying today... enjoying family... enjoying work... enjoying life since I may well be a thorn in everyone's side for another couple decades!!!! :>)
 

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