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Prayers for the wife of a friend
6.16.02
| Michael King
Posted on 06/16/2002 5:00:45 AM PDT by mhking
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To: mhking
Prayers and a bump.
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posted on
06/16/2002 10:02:25 AM PDT
by
SAMWolf
To: mhking
Prayers
42
posted on
06/16/2002 10:05:35 AM PDT
by
aomagrat
To: mhking
Prayers for you and your friends. Very sad, especially when the sun is shining and birds are singing and you know he will never see these again. Perhaps he is in a better place now.
Carolyn
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posted on
06/16/2002 10:58:43 AM PDT
by
CDHart
To: viligantcitizen;mhking
You and this man's family have been added to my prayer list.
May all of you look to Him for comfort and peace now.
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posted on
06/16/2002 11:10:30 AM PDT
by
whoever
To: mhking
I'm so sorry for your loss. Prayers for you and Rodney's family are on their way.
To: Askel5
Depression is a killer. I, for one, am lucky to be alive.
To: mhking
Offering prayers of comfort.
To: mhking
Prayers for Irma and for you.
May God wrap his loving arms around you both, and protect your broken hearts.
48
posted on
06/16/2002 2:06:17 PM PDT
by
trussell
To: stands2reason
I understand, believe me ... not just suicide attempts but also years of really stupid and self-destructive behavior rooted in rank nihilism and utter disregard for how precious I was to others if not myself.
Part of escaping that hell, however, was dying to self and thinking of others. Not the "It's a Wonderful Life" realization of how much you've meant to folks (I was a stand-offish selfish jerk myself, hardly the stuff of the self-sacrificing Jimmy Stewart). Rather, it's a real appreciation for how much you yet can do to beat the clock and how awful it would be to continue making others suffer.
So, my experience was more or less like that of Scrooge and realizing I wasn't dead already after all ... that there still was time to make the rounds and gift others as best I could after the example of Christ.
I believe modern therapy (and medication) mostly keeps folks comfortably numb and perpetually focused on finding someone or something to blame and/or some means to rationalize or feel "okay" about one's plight as a way of maintenance of the problems they're "dealing with". But, absent a recognition of one's own obligations (and sometimes culpability through lack of self will or other failure), there's really no hope of substantively changing the equation because the person never actually takes control of their own life ... particularly the life of their mind (or soul).
I think history shows that those in control of same are able always to endure the unspeakable in oppression, hardship, torture and alienation that drive others to despair, insanity or suicide. It's true that history is a vale of tears. Better to place your hope in the enduring and true.
My finally letting go of the suicidal bent was rooted in nothing but the realization that was one bit of pain I could spare my folks ... having put them through the wringer for years. It was a start.
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posted on
06/16/2002 2:31:29 PM PDT
by
Askel5
To: mhking
I'm so sorry for your loss. I'll be praying that God put His loving arms around Irma and the rest of Rodney's family and friends, like you, who love him and grieve for him. God Bless you.
To: mhking
I am so sorry. Prayers on the way for all. God rest his soul.
51
posted on
06/16/2002 3:27:18 PM PDT
by
kassie
To: mhking
I am So Sorry for your loss. He really sounded like a guy I would have loved to have met and chatted with.
52
posted on
06/16/2002 3:33:30 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
To: cmsgop
I will pray also.
53
posted on
06/16/2002 3:40:42 PM PDT
by
Davea
To: mhking
God bless Rodney, Irma and You.
Rememberance and Hope.
54
posted on
06/16/2002 3:56:49 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: mhking
Prayers sent for Irma and her family. This is a difficult one to handle. God will never take us any place that He isn't waiting to take us on through. Prayers for you and your loved ones too.
Kristy
To: mhking
Prayers said. May God bless you.
To: mhking; knighthawk; Snow Bunny; Alamo-Girl; Republican Wildcat; Howlin; Fred Mertz; onyx...
Prayers for your friends wife's loss and for you too, FRiend.
To: mhking
Rodney and Irma and you are in my prayers.
58
posted on
06/16/2002 4:48:43 PM PDT
by
TexKat
To: mhking
Prayers lifted up for you and for Irma my friend.
59
posted on
06/16/2002 4:50:58 PM PDT
by
terilyn
To: mhking
My thoughts are with you all.
60
posted on
06/16/2002 5:06:31 PM PDT
by
Cagey
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