Posted on 11/30/2014 11:00:08 PM PST by Kaslin
“I love you, Nana,” I told my dying 93-year-old grandma this summer. For a brief but unforgettable moment, her Irish eyes sparkled and a huge smile shone on her face. Then, her eyes closed and her shoulders relaxed into her pillow—her body’s attempt to recuperate after exerting enormous energy to smile.
On Thanksgiving, my 83-year-old grandmother also gave us a scare as she struggled to eat or drink due to complications with a hiatal hernia. I wrapped my arms around her, “We love you, Grandma.” Despite her pain, she responded with warm laughter.
While watching two of the women who I most admire fight to breathe, eat and drink—I realized that President Obama and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel are dead wrong about the value of life.
Dr. Emanuel is the brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and an advisor to President Obama. Last month, he penned a column in The Atlantic where he cackled: “...by 75, creativity, originality, and productivity are pretty much gone for the vast, vast majority of us.”
Last year, a woman asked President Obama whether his signature healthcare law would be taking into account an individual’s will to live: “Well, can we consider my mother’s spirit, her will to live, when she’s 105 for medical treatment?” Obama’s response echoes Dr. Emanuel’s end-of-life philosophy: “I don’t think that we can make judgments based on people’s spirit. …Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.”
I may be young, but I’m not dumb. I personally cared for my Nana for nearly four years while she struggled with severe dementia. I saw first-hand that she bestowed unique joy and wisdom on the world when she was in her nineties.
Said differently, if she had passed away at age 75, my family, friends and I would never had had the opportunity to learn from her: to see the fortitude and joy with which she bore the burden of her aching back and varicose veins; to hear her pray with perfect faith; and to receive her ever-playful words of counsel: “Patience is a virtue—seldom found in a woman and never in a man.”
As a Millennial, my concern is that Obama and Dr. Emanuel seem to be telling American Millennials:
“Hey, kids! Mooch off your parents and grandparents forever! If you can’t find a job, don’t blame the cause, namely Obama’s redistributive policies. Instead, lounge around at home in flannel pajamas. Forget about the future. Squander away the present by surfing the Internet and watching Obama’s YouTube videos on immigration. Sip hot cocoa and sign up for ObamaCare in the comfort of your boxer shorts. Last but not least, pop your parents a painkiller when they hit 75 so you can pocket their inheritance after paying the death tax.”
In Japan, young people learn to respect their elders from a young age—a culture that greedy American political leaders like Dr. Emanuel and President Obama should learn from. A recent Associated Press story highlighted how 21-year-old Kaori Endo’s chief concern is “how I can support my parents.” She said her primary daily stressor is how she can move from temporary work in a bread factory to permanent employment. Not so she can upgrade from flannel to silk pajamas, but so she provide for her mother and father.
As you approach the season of hope, take time to treasure the older people in your life. Lead by example and teach a young person to respect the elderly, including those struggling with dementia. By passing your appreciation for life on to the next generation, you will prevent Dr. Emanuel from spreading his morbid practice of drooling over death.
The Emanuel brothers are all scumbags.
Jesus should knock the crap out of this guy.
Don’t worry. He will.
Zeke is the scummiest of the disgusting Emmanuel brothers, which is saying something. His arrogance is a cause of anti-Semitism.
Wonder what their parents were like ..... trees, apples, etc. etc.
Any chance old Mom and Dad were redder than a Rhesus monkey's ass?
Never trust a thin cook, the old saying goes. How about another new one? How about, "Never trust a doctor who looks like Dr. Mengele?"
Flat-cheeked and lizard-lipped, he looks like the kind of suits who, in the 80's and 90's, jobbed any number of fine American companies and sent the jobs overseas to be filled by hardscrabble Third World starvation cases.
Never trust a guy who looks more chicken-lipped than your local Audi/BMW/Benz salesman.
This guy is that guy -- not Cantor.
My beautiful Grandmother was 88 when she had a hip replacement - we all thought it would be the end of her. No way - she traveled to Australia to see us all and spent 4 weeks traveling around with us. Other than needing an afternoon nap each day she was full of life. Nine years later I visited her in England and she still was getting around well although age had started to catch up with her. A year later she died. She had 10 years of life that I am sure she would not have had if she had just taken the pain killer and I have memories that will endure for the rest of my life. 75 is such an arbitrarily number for my Gran it was just passed middle age!
"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints."
—Psalm 116:15.
Chuckles...
A Modern day Mengele.
You said it
Exodus 20:12 - From the 10 Commandments
12 Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Wesley explanation
20:12 We have here the laws of the second table, as they are commonly called; the six last commandments which concern our duty to ourselves, and one another, and are a comment upon the second great commandment, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. As religion towards God is, an essential branch of universal righteousness, so righteousness towards men is an essential branch of true religion: godliness and honesty must go together. The fifth commandment is concerning the duties we owe to our relations; that of children to their parents is only instanced in, honor thy father and thy mother, which includes,
an inward esteem of them, outwardly expressed upon all occasions in our carriage towards them; fear them, Leviticus 19:3 , give them reverence, Hebrews 12:9 .The contrary to this is mocking at them or despising them,
Obedience to their lawful commands; so it is expounded, Ephesians 6:1 - 3.Children obey your parents; come when they call you, go where they send you, do what they bid you, do not what they forbid you; and this cheerfully, and from a principle of love. Though you have said you will not, yet afterwards repent and obey.
Submission to their rebukes, instructions and corrections, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Disposing of themselves with the advice, direction and consent of parents, not alienating their property, but with their approbation.
Endeavoring in every thing to be the comfort of their parents, and to make their old age easy to them; maintaining them if they stand in need of support. That thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee - This promise, (which is often literally fulfilled) is expounded in a more general sense Ephesians 6:3 .That it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live long on the earth - Those that in conscience towards God keep this and other of God’s commandments, may be sure it shall be well with them, and they shall live as long on the earth as infinite wisdom sees good for, them, and what they may seem to be cut short of on earth, shall be abundantly made up in eternal life, the heavenly Canaan which God will give them.
Just more evidence that the Godless Progressive agenda spits in the face of God Almighty and he has taken notice!
Perhaps, just perhaps, those who have created this new “religion” known as obamacare, will be victims of their own making. Yes, I know they ruled themselves exempt but let me explain. Being a Christian, I believe that God has a plan for all of us, “exempt” or not. It might be in God’s plan that the exempt will leave this place a bit earlier than they themselves have planned. We can only hope.
Answer below...
God speaks directly to their devious plans, and when he says “cut off” he means buh bye!
Psalm 37 (King James Version)
1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers , neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed .
4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass .
6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass .
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil .
9 For evildoers shall be cut off : but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming .
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken .
16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken : but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied .
20 But the wicked shall perish , and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume ; into smoke shall they consume away .
21 The wicked borroweth , and payeth not again : but the righteous sheweth mercy , and giveth .
22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off .
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
24 Though he fall , he shall not be utterly cast down : for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old ; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken , nor his seed begging bread.
26 He is ever merciful , and lendeth ; and his seed is blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off .
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide .
32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged .
34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off , thou shalt see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away , and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found .
37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off .
39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
AMEN!
Amen!
When the douchebag Hollywood agent (Ari) is arguably “the good one”, you know you aren’t dealing with a quality family.
LOL Yeah I suppose that does sound funny in context - she was a tough woman - prayed for all of her kids, grand kids and great grand kids each and every day. I have no doubt that her prayers were heard we are all a testimony to hers and God’s faithfulness!
AMEN!
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