So be generous during your life and give to charity, with your heart, not just from the excess change in the bottom of your pocket. This is especially true now, when many people are struggling to financially stay afloat.
Patti Maguire Armstrong is the mother of ten children including two Kenyan AIDS orphans. She is a speaker and the author of Catholic Truths for Our Children: A Parent's Guide (Scepter) and the children's book, Dear God, I Don't Get It!" (Bezalel). She was also the managing editor and co-author of Ascension Press's Amazing Grace book series. Her website is RaisingCatholicKids.com.
I disagree that cancer is a gift.
So be generous during your life and give to charity, with your heart, not just from the excess change in the bottom of your pocket. This is especially true now, when many people are struggling to financially stay afloat.
Good post.
Great article!
I once had a thought that death walked across the universe to finally meet you. He has to walk it and we have to meet him. The meeting will be as natural as birth.
A co-worker of mine lost his sister to cancer last week. She was 41. Two days later his brother-in-law, his sister’s husband, died. He was 44 and they left two children, 16 and 11. I doubt that anyone in that family is looking at death as their friend.
I’m curious as to how many people have looked a cancer patient in the face, and told them it’s a gift from God?
Sooner or later, I will die, and I’m okay with that. After my husband died, the kids and I all had several long discussions, wherein each of us discussed our own deaths. We are all convinced of Heaven with each other, we all love the lives we have for the moment, and we all love Christ our Savior.
We know we will lose each other, but we know it is not forever.
The night prayers at the Abbey contain a line, “O Lord, please grant us a restful night and a peaceful death.”
And my husband’s scripture friend, during his illness, was, “Lord, lettest now thy servant depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation which thou has prepared in the presence of all people, a light unto the gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.”