Thank you for your wise encouragement.
I am sorry you and so many others have lost, for a time, such a dear friend in Christ.
Great post, Wuli.
Sounds like you were a true and appreciative friend as it is. But still the message resonates.
That is a great tribute to your friend and mentor, who clearly lived a life of meaning and action.
Beautiful tribute to your brother in the Lord and wonderful words of wisdom to everyone.
2Thessalonians 2:16-17
Sorry, FRiend. Didn't read this until just now.
I just learned today that an old friend of mine recently died.
Thanks for the post. It makes me think how little effort it takes sometimes to make a huge difference in the life of someone else.
Like you say, just do it.
This reminds me of a friend of mine. I’m mid 50’s, he’s pushing 80. When he was 18, he was on staff at a Christian summer camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. An alder man there noticed that he had a big car and suggested he bring a few kids to camp. He organized some others to join him.
That went on for many years then they bought a bus.
He drove me to camp several times as a youth.
A while later, I got my bus drivers license and started driving myself.
He still has his CDL but doesn’t do the long trips anymore but still maintains the buses and handles all the scheduling.
In many ways he’s my mentor even though I now live hundreds of miles away.
His wife passed away this year after an over 20 year cancer battle.
Two of my kids are at camp now. One on summer staff and a be as a counselor for a week.
I think outside family, I’ve known him longer than anyone else.
Condolences, Wuli. Thanks for sharing words of wisdom.
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Important post. Thank you for sharing. I have this with a dear friend that passed away about 7 years ago. I didn’t make the effort to go visit her in AZ.
Time goes by in a blink. “I could waste a thousand years” as the song says. But the things that last as memories are when one really makes an effort with people. I didn’t go visit my dad in the nursing home either after he went in in 2016. Not very often. When the staff told my mom he was winding down at the beginning of this past November, we went up to see him a lot for that month. I’m so glad I did. Oh
Thank you again for posting about your dear mentor and friend.
Someone once told me that there are two things with witch Gold will not help man, finding a friend and finding a teacher. Sounds like you did it.
Beautiful. Dreading tomorrow. My 21 year old son is in the depths of horrible depression, will be facing it then when he comes home. He was a promising writer before this all happened. Life can be tricky. This breaks my heart
A nice way to ‘pay back’ your friend would be to pass on his kindness. Adopt an MYF group... (United Methodist Youth Organization (UMYO)?) and pass on your friends kindness...
[...] would be my own life and the distance between us, ect., ect., ect. You know what, we can choose which things we want to make our excuses for, and it does not always have to be the ect., ect., ect. stuff.
Note: "Etc." (not "ect.") is the abbreviation of et cetera ("and so on").
Regards,
Age gives us perspective that would serve us well during the earlier years - God Bless.