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Beyond The Gate

Beyond The Gate

On earth we don’t understand
Why babies have to die
Their little lives are taken
And our painful cry is “Why?”

As we endure the pains of life
No other pain compares
A parent weeping for a child
Just briefly it was theirs

For reasons we don’t understand
Their little lives are taken
And we cry out to God above
“Why must I be [...]

Pondering friendship

Why?
Why is it so hard to find good friends?
And when you do find them why is it so hard to keep them?
Aren’t we all looking for the same thing?
Someone you can tell anything to, and know its safe with them.
Someone who understands who you are, and won’t try and change you.
Someone who loves you even [...]

Pearls

 (Author: unknown. You might have seen this one posted in a blog or received it by email. Anita felt it was powerful enough to save a copy in Word.)

Pearls

Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty, five year old girl. One day when she
and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a
plastic pearl necklace [...]

Old friends

It’s never too late…

to find old friends

They’re like gems.
Links to our past.
Sea anchors in a storm.
They bring Solidity.
A chance for reflection.
A like in our life chain.
A continuum

“The best mirror is an old friend.” – Proverb

A couple weeks ago I bought this book, “It’s Never Too Late” by Patrick Lindsay. It has a bunch of what [...]

Take up your cross

I’ve been having a problem lately. The problem is taking up my cross. As time has passed, my focus has blurred, motivations floundered and the details of life intervened. I realized some days I had gone without even seeing a picture of Anita, let alone preserving her memory and sharing her love (which I believe is [...]

Risk averse

Sometimes inspiration comes from funny places.

This time, when I flipped through Anita’s bible I found a folded up fortune cookie fortune. I opened and read it.

“Progress always involves risk.”

Examining the pages surrounding, it was stuck between the pages of Psalm 41 and Pslam 42. The Pslam 41 page was folded back to mark it. However, [...]

Daily Affirmations

(Greg’s note: I had a bag of stuff from under Anita’s bathroom sink and I found a handful of her wall posts kind of crumpled in there. This is on the of the more involved ones that encompassed several lessons.)

Daily Affirmations – 2/1/07

 1.       Today is all you have.  Be grateful for today.

 (Is your mortgage [...]

Unforgiven

People who know me know that I spend a lot of time analyzing things (maybe way too much time) and so it was after Anita’s death. A million things came into my mind and one of the stranger ones was a pair of movies: Bye Bye Love (Paul Riser) about three single dads and how [...]

A significant experience

This morning I found a Personal Statement that Anita wrote for her college applications (one that went to several colleges). Part of the directions said to “Evaluate a significant experience or achievement that has special meaning to you.”

On March 29, 1988, a very close friend of mine was killed in a car accident. Do you [...]