Posted on 05/29/2002 2:38:14 AM PDT by oceanperch
How come no one hs started a condolance(sp) thread for The Levys?
hoping all is well with you!
Thanks!
That sure is the impression I got from that post too!
And never posted before....hmmmmm.
Excerpt: During the fourth year of my television show, I fell in love--completely, unexpectedly in love. I had been so immersed in TV for so long I had forgotten that the love part of me even existed. That's why it was such a shock when it suddenly happened!
It all began when I ran into an actor I had first met when we had worked on a film together. Now he had come to Hollywood to make a movie-of-the-week for television. He invited me to dinner and before the evening was over I had fallen head over heels in love with him. Who can explain it?
The man I fell in love with was totally different from the men I had known before. He wasn't a father figure as Marty had been. He was as interested in the metaphysics of life as I was and we had a wonderful time talking and exploring each other's minds.
Our affair lasted for over a year. For as luck would have it, the movie he made became a television series on which he had a regular weekly part. So during the day we were both busy at our respective studios and everynight we shared the sweet excitement of being together. He was married to a woman he no longer loved but he'd stayed with her for the sake of his three children. Sometimes he wanted to talk about his marriage; on occasion we discussed his indecision over leaving his wife. I didn't try to exert any pressure about that, for having had three marriages that turned out as badly as mine, I was not thinkng about getting married again.
We had a perfectly marvelous year.
And throughout that very real love affair, the gossip columns and movie magazines kept regaling their readers--as always with lurid accounts of my amorous adventures that were pure fiction...There was one occasion in my life when this kind of outrageous rumor served me well. That was when I was in love with my actor. At that time, the fanciful stories were a perfect cover for the real affair I was having and I purposely never denied any of them.
Although the actor was as careful as I to keep our relationship under wraps, there was one evening when he decided to take me out to dinner. In Beverly Hills at that. I said I thought it was rather risky, since, in public, I'm not what you might call unrecognizable. But he took me to a cozy retaurant he had found. I didn't see a soul I knew or anyone who knew me and even the waiter and maitre d' showed no signs of recognition. Which shows you that there are special protective angels for lovers.
Yet, as it turned out, he was a man who passed through my life without leaving a trace of himself. When the season was over and his series wasn't renewed, he went back east and I never saw him again. I realized after he'd left that I did not love him in an enduring way, but that he had brought me something important at a time when I sorely needed it.
That is from Doris Day: Her Own Story by A.E. Hotchner. Mind you, this was in the December issue with all of the Christmas articles, right under the first article which is a poem entitled "Prayer: The Christ Child's Coming" by Harry Emerson Fosdick
Insert Cher's grandpa from the movie Moonstruck: "I'm so confused!"
But as to the question of how Doris Day could write so publicly about her relationship with a married man, and YIKES...It ends up in Good Housekeeping magazine! Probably the eternal virgin Doris didn't even consider it adultry, since she wasn't married. And hey!! She was already a geezer by the time she did her television show...maybe the whole "affair" thing was just more Hollywood fiction, and in this case, wishful thinking on her part. At least back then, Hollywood heavyweights had to keep their secrets, secret.
(I'll never forgive Esther Williams for writing in her autobiography that Jeff Chandler was a cross-dresser.) Some things, we just don't need to know.
We join the Lord in this: 2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So we're not dancing on anyone's grave nor do we wish to see anyone die prematurely. Accidents do happen and we can't always know why. Jesus said when asked about the 18 who were killed when the towers fell at Siloam, Lu 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
I think it is tragic that your son died. I don't know his end. You undoubtedly know of his lifestyle choices...i.e. fruit. What we cannot know is last minute decisions about the Lord and His life. God is more concerned about our direction than our perfection, although the walk -- the process of being perfected and conformed to His image, which He commands -- is daily, requiring critical choices and we are judged by what we do in our walk. To whom we yield, we are servant to obey. Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? I wrote above:
God also takes some to spare them:And you chose to ignore that. Please do not be like Jacob who refused to be comforted. I wrote that because evil is about to come! We cannot know all of God's purposes in your life or your son's life, but you can choose to yield to God or against Him. The same sun that melts wax, hardens clay and it is extremely important to be tender towards the events in our lives, and to guard our heart lest a root of bitterness spring up. We are to yield to Him even when we don't understand. The devil wants you to "curse God and die." We are to be better, not bitter, and to do right. He will ultimately bring a reward for that. Suffering refines people just as tribulation works patience in us. Basically suffering brings us to a point of trusting God........or not. It is the T in the road to seal one for God or seal them in iniquity.Isa 57:1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
It is relatively easy to trust God in the good times, although the deceitfulness of riches IS a test many flunk. It is after you pray and tell the Lord that you don't want anything between Him and you and He starts taking things away, that things get rough. He may take things away to show you that you have inordinate affections which is Idolatry. Some people worship their family more than God and they should not. Read about Abraham and Isaac. God gives us Isaacs and tests about them. Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
We have consistently been pointing out for several years that there is a great falling away happening now, that God will lop off unfruitful, dry branches and unprofitable servants IN JUDGMENT and that there are many false prophets and false teachers who have entered in, deceiving and being deceived. That is literally what the Bible says. If you believe and heed the Bible, that is what real Judaism and real Christianity says. There IS a consequence for actions and there IS a just recompence of reward
Heb 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
Question: When a person sins, does God remove the consequence of prior actions?
Answer: No. Some say Samson was the strongest man in the Bible, but he really was one of the weakest because he chose to be led around by his lusts instead of by the Holy Spirit. When he sinned, it had enormous consequences, he was taken captive, blinded and made a slave. (Judges 13-16). Ultimately he called out to God who renewed his strength and Samson tore down the two towers over his enemies and so he died. Hebrews 11:32 speaks of his faith. The Lord delivered him, saved him, but he suffered the consequences of his sin...captivity and blindness and death. We are to look at our lives beyond the grave, not to consider they ended there.
A preacher had a son who became a homosexual, got AIDS and died. The son repented before he died. The father preached his son's funeral and said, "God forgave him, but his body did not." There are consequences for actions.
On the day they identified her body, there were many posts mentioning condolences for her parents. Maybe you just missed them...?
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