Yeah, losing wife plus getting old is rough...
But Jesus is waiting...
Best wishes to you.
I’m so sorry for your loss, Jim.
Please know that we love you, and that hurt/lost
feeling that you have takes time to deal with.
Hubby and I will celebrate our 41rst anniversary soon.
If I lost him. I would be as you are now.
Please carry on, for your beloved wife, but also for your sons.
Sheila would not want this for you, Jim!
It is easier said then done, I know.
You have had such a huge impact on my life!
I have met so many wonderful freepers here and
the friendships have become life long.
You have made such a HUGE mark on America, and have brought
patriots together here-that’s tough to beat!
You have done SO much for us, even when we knew that you weren’t feeling great!
Thank you, Boss!
Feel free to freepmail me if you ever need to talk
With love and thank you!
Ms.B
I just turned 50. It’s gone incredibly fast. 20 years ago I was 30. 20 years from now I’ll be 70. Man……
I feel for you FRiend.
How great a Savior you have.
my last doctor visit
i was giving the doctor a list of my complaints
he looks me square in the eye and sez
you’re getting old
pay the girl at the desk
Jim, we’re not as old as we will be in 10 years. Today can mark a new beginning for you. Take inventory of your treasures and keep praying. I believe you will turn this feeling around and rebound into greater happiness. Ask our Lord for help and He will grant it to you.
Yeah, we get old. I notice it now in many ways.
Your post though makes me think this:
“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
Which appropriately is from the book of Lamentations (Chapter 3)
Hang in there, Jim. The LORD has your back...
“Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am He Who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” (Isaiah 46:4)
GOD isn’t finished with you yet!!!
Yeah, losing wife plus getting old is rough...
But Jesus is waiting...
Best wishes to you.
Jim,
When I first started surfing FR in ~1998 I was not a believer.
Some time later at one of the FReeper picnics in FResno (remember those?) I told you that FR had led me to look into Christianity more.
Years after that, in 2008, God came to me suddenly and slapped me awake. Through a series of interesting steps over an intense 48 hours or so I went from largely unknowing and unbelieving of Christ to being a committed and confessing Christian.
I have many times looked back and thought that being a regular on this site before I believed had a big part in softening my heart and preparing me to receive God’s grace.
I’m certain that there are others who experienced similar here.
When you stand before God (as we all will someday) I expect He will show you how your work on this site yielded fruit for His Kingdom.
May God Bless you, Jim.
Tom in San Francisco
(formerly Rogue Yam)
Dear Jim,
Rudderless is a good description. I will add vulnerable. I don’t LIKE being vulnerable.
I don’t know what I thought old age would be like but I never imagined this. 85 lbs. Sick and isolated.
After 3 years of loosing my community to fire, and our family home to dam breaching, 3 rounds of covid and a relentless lifelong disability I was still hanging on. Until I lost my last friend and family.
Be assured in the fact that you went the extra mile for your family and country and never gave up!
Thank you for the soapbox and allowing me to use it, Jim Robinson. May you have peace!
AuntB
Sir, I am now 69 and when I awaken each day I face the fact I have accomplished little in this life.
You, sir, have accomplished much!
Your Free Republic site has changed lives. Saved lives, even. Thank you.
At the end of April last year, I was paralyzed by a medication error in the hospital. I have never hurt so much. It took about 90 days to relearn how to walk. I started an exercise class. After about a year, most of the muscle pain was gone. Now I just have to deal with the nerve pain. But what happened was I decided I was going to walk again. In that class the two sessions I missed, which I made up at home, were for doctor’s appointments. Weirdly, I am in many ways in much better health today than I would have been if nothing bad had happened.
There are probably a hundred sayings that might be appropriate. Here’s my go at one. For every door that closes, another opens. I am better mentally, and in some respects, physically than I otherwise would have been.
Losing a loved one is the most difficult blow to overcome. Set a new goal and stick to it. Another door will open.
Dear Mr Robinson, you are stronger than you know. You are an inspiration to others and have many unseen friends who, along with God, are rooting for you. I can say first hand that faith and wonderful memories have sustained me after my husband passed away. I too am old now but have realized in my coming this far that I was never alone. Sir, neither are you, God bless.
Fight the good fight as long as you have breath, Jim. I lost my wife three years ago, and I chose to be grateful to God for time together. Nothing lasts forever, except that it does in God’s kingdom. I fully believe that we will rejoin, except if *I* don’t make the cut. God bless! Bob
Welcome, to the Golden age...
I hear you Jim! Extra prayers. Yes you are not alone and your Sheila is with you just not visible. Some of us are just exhausted. What keeps me going? My faith and witnessing one of the most amazing times in history. Know that your forum has helped bring this about and it’s not done yet. God bless!
We don’t worry about how old trees are, instead we think of them growing every year. Be like a tree!
“the sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older...shorter of breath and one day closer to death”
Your Legacy is all of ours— our North Star for generations. Never doubt that. And the Lord will fill you in as needed, as one of His Own.
I’ll be 64 this summer. HOW THE HECK DID THAT HAPPEN? I was an Army-Ready kick-@ss for most of my life. Now, lifting a 50# bag of animal feed is a struggle!
And I fell off my bike 2x last year after riding for-ever! My sense of balance now officially sucks.
However - I’m still 19 on the inside. And I’m still about 12 when it comes to my sense of humor. And my Inner Child is stuck on ‘Toddler.’ Give me a cookie and a nap and I’ll be just fine. ;)
We love you, Mr. Robinson! You have built something very, very good here! *SMOOCH*