A Dying World

Death is continually about us and near us, and meets us at every turn. Few are the family gatherings, when Chirstmas comes round in which there are not some empty chairs and vacant places. Few are the men and women, past thirty, who could not number a long list of names, deeply cut for ever in their hearts, but names of beloved ones now dead and gone. Where are our fathers and mothers? Where are our ministers and teachers? Where are our brothers and sisters? Where are our husbands and wives? Where are our neighbors and friends? Where are the old grey-headed worshippers, whose reverent faces we remember so well, when we first went to God's house? Where are the boys and girls we played with when we went to school? How many must reply, "Dead, dead, dead! The daisies are growing over their graves, and we are left alone." Surely a world so full of death can never be called a home. - J. C. Ryle

Reflecting

I wonder, why is it that around this time of the year, hardships or grief touch our lives......?

2006 - Grandma Rosa passed away

2007 - Dad had a heart attack and went through extensive surgery

2008 - Now Mama has carcinoma


"If we could see the end as God does, we should see that every event is for the good of the believer. When we get to heaven, we shall see that every wind was wafting us to glory"

~Stars and Midnight Blue~

Cancer

You never thought it could happen to you or a loved one
But when it does everything changes
Winter comes faster, and summer fades away


My mother had surgery to remove cancer from her body on November 22. May God grant my heart's deepest desire that it will not reoccur or spread throughout her body.

A Somber Day for America

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." -J.F.Kennedy

"Ask not what your country can do for you - DEMAND what your country can do for you." - Present day Americans

Coldplay-Lovers in Japan and Reign Of Love

Memories of the past weekend

This weekend past a friend and I went to the Pittstown area of Renssealer County, NY and Bennington and Manchester area of Vermont. What a beautiful weekend!