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Oct. 12, 2005
Awareness
See the blinkie on the sidebar?
The lady in the blinkie passed away yesterday morning.
She was fighting breast cancer, and lost her battle with it.
Could her death have been prevented? Maybe.
The doctor ignored her two years ago when she went to him, pregnant, with a lump in her breast.
But that does not mean that she could have been saved.
My faith tells me that we all have a time when we are called to go, by a higher power.
My faith tells me, that I should pray for her soul, and that perhaps she has gone to heaven.
My faith offers some comfort... but like a friend of mine said today,
I tell people all the time--it's not DEATH I fear--it's dying
She is a breast cancer survivor. She has seen the edge of the abyss in a way that many of us can not. I can believe that the lady who died today, went to a better place, but the sadness, the fear still linger.
Why are we afraid to go on to a better place? Is it fear of the
unknown? Maybe fear that 'what if we are wrong'? What if we
are not wrong? Someday, it will be my time to go, and I am sure I will approach it with a heavy heart full of fear. Today, I am just grateful, that I am alive, and still with my family.  Christ
our eternal King and God, You have destroyed death and the devil by
Your Cross and have restored man to life by Your Resurrection; give
rest, Lord, to the soul of Your servant (name) who has fallen asleep,
in Your Kingdom, where there is no pain, sorrow or suffering. In Your
goodness and love for all men, pardon all the sins he (she) has
committed in thought word or deed, for there is no man or woman who
lives and sins not, You only are without sin. For
You are the Resurrection, the Life, and Repose of Your servant (name),
departed this life, O Christ our God; and to You do we send up glory
with Your Eternal Father and Your All-holy, Good and Life-creating
Spirit; both now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen
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