tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826766.post8584852569285069952..comments2023-10-28T04:19:52.130-04:00Comments on The Big Dunk: We brought thingsRachel Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01534890739695708419noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826766.post-58265731966290252392010-01-04T09:00:48.313-05:002010-01-04T09:00:48.313-05:00You know I used to be a hospice volunteer, and I c...You know I used to be a hospice volunteer, and I can tell you God's presence was strong in those situations. That is what I do not see in "the willingness to try anything in order to live." There is an "at all costs" aspect that I see that has little use for God.<br /><br />I am struggling with this, obviously. I will answer you email later today.John Michael Kebahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08584492820189031076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826766.post-41578355455539139602010-01-03T22:13:55.646-05:002010-01-03T22:13:55.646-05:00Yes, I understand what you are saying.
I haven&...Yes, I understand what you are saying. <br /><br />I haven't really run into people who have felt like they were owed something... but I have certainly been involved with people who were willing to try anything in order to live. Usually it involved not wanting to leave loved ones in bad situations. In the end, though, God is in the midst of all of it, and if you recognize that fact, the Rachel Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01534890739695708419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826766.post-88268852886481968732010-01-03T20:16:38.954-05:002010-01-03T20:16:38.954-05:00First, I need to say that "gratitude" fo...First, I need to say that "gratitude" for the life is how I always try to approach it, and that tempers the natural sense of sadness. <br /><br />What I was referring to was the anger I far too often see in people who feel cheated somehow out of all the years they feel medical science has guaranteed them. You do not run into this attitude?<br /><br />I think too I am struggling with John Michael Kebahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08584492820189031076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826766.post-63048072419226750462010-01-03T18:47:14.090-05:002010-01-03T18:47:14.090-05:00John,
I wish you would say more about this. Why ...John,<br /><br />I wish you would say more about this. Why the anger? The sadness, I understand, of course. <br /><br />When my friend Maze died, I didn't feel anger at all. But I did feel hugely grateful for having met him. To me, that was one of God's great gifts in my life. I felt very sad for his family, too, of course.Rachel Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01534890739695708419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826766.post-51279112475875019662010-01-02T11:02:28.954-05:002010-01-02T11:02:28.954-05:00I am always struck, when I read the journals and m...I am always struck, when I read the journals and memoirs of Friends written up to, say, the end of the 19th century, how commonplace death was in life. Grief and joy went hand in hand.<br /><br /><br />Now, no one seems <i>willing</i> to die at all (which is a different thing altogether from not <i>wanting</i> to die), and and I rarely experience joy for a life lived when someone I know dies; John Michael Kebahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08584492820189031076noreply@blogger.com