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Life to the end


Below is a sentence that a man I accompaniedat at the end of his life once said to me.

Tonight I have a moving thought. for him now, the sun is shining elsewhere.
He stepped into the light.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                    Gone ...

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Gone too soon ... left too young ... left early .... or just left ...

We often think of them while looking at the stars, the moon...
A date, a song, a smell, a place, a picture reminds us of them.
And a tear escapes ...

                                                - Author unknown -

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

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Where there is hate, let me put love.
Where there is offence, may I put forgiveness.
Where there is discord, may I bring unity.
Where there is error, may I bring truth.
Where there is doubt, may I put faith.
Where there is despair, may I put hope.
Where there is darkness, may I bring light.
Where there is sadness, may I bring joy.

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O Lord, whom I seek not so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.

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For it is by forgetting ourselves that we find each other.

It is by forgiving that we are forgiven.
It is by dying that we are resurrected to eternal life.



- Saint Francis of Assisi -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Compassion

 

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 "Compassion is not being sorry,
nor full of sympathy for the sufferings of others.
Compassion is a love of such depth
that we are prepared to do the impossible to bring
more awareness in a situation."

- Author unknown -