tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930653948090538640.post4728995169448024253..comments2023-10-20T06:20:22.769-07:00Comments on Living With My Shadow: Smooth Sailing!!Patricia J. Moscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16370400543375022824noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930653948090538640.post-53479919886845889702009-08-24T15:44:16.076-07:002009-08-24T15:44:16.076-07:00Dear Pattie:
This weekend I was thinking of all t...Dear Pattie:<br /><br />This weekend I was thinking of all the "little stories" that you have told on this blog. Memes are the little stories that we have in our head that are passed virtually from person-to-person and generation to generation, with a life of their own. Memes may or may not be true, but they tell a story and those stories become our realities, factual or not.<br /><br />A long-time dear friend of our family was delivering the liturgy in church yesterday and spoke these words: "As you may know our own Danny Dalke, the child of this congregation has battled cancer for several years now. I am happy to report he is doing much better and will be returning to teaching soon. But you don't know why he is doing better. Medical science says that those bone marrow transplants and cocktails of drugs have made him better.<br /><br />But I have another explanation as his mother Pat told me this week. One day as Dan was in his hospital bed, his son Calvin sitting beside him says, 'You know, Dad, I'm not really here.' 'Oh, says Dan, "where are ?" 'I'm invisible. I'm inside of you healing you.'...<br /><br />"but, here is my new shield that will quench the flaming arrows of the evil one (cancer): CALVIN RULES."<br /><br />Collin is healing his Grandpa too, with laughter and his presence at special moments like Disney World and planting a tree with his Grandpa in his Grandma's new garden. So you might make a shield that says: COLLIN RULES.<br /><br /><br />Pattie, you will find the reference to the shield of faith in Paul's letter to the Ephesians where Paul says, "Take the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one." <br /><br />I do not always find Paul easy to read, I hear overtones of male superiority, but the passage in this letter draws some wonderfully vivid images.Pat Dalkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02043582033654234382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930653948090538640.post-46562814127558507022009-08-24T06:08:45.854-07:002009-08-24T06:08:45.854-07:00Why is it we forget about laughing when it's r...Why is it we forget about laughing when it's really a lot easier than moaning!<br /><br />I wish for you a magical kind of day that makes you smile. And when you can't keep it in anymore, a big ole belly laugh that makes you snort and tears come out of your eyes!Merry MEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00462036349233154101noreply@blogger.com