I recently watched a movie called Five Feet Apart. A movie about cystic fibrosis patients who weren't allowed to be within 6 feet of each other and had to wear a mask whenever around each other because they were high risk for contracting each other's bacteria which could be fatal. There was one scene where the nurse admitted to allowing two patients to break the rules because she wanted to make them happy as they were in love. Their determination wore down her resolve and she didn't enforce the rules as per her role. The story conveyed, the risks outweighed the reward and they both passed away. The nurse gleened from this event a renewed resolved to not allow this to ever happen again on her watch. I wondered how many times we risk our health and well being by breaking rules in the name of happiness/love. We have to ask ourselves, is it more loving to force denied/delayed gratification or at minimum a brief period of uncomfortableness so that our health, well-being a...
I had no idea my daughter could rhyme she places her ideas on paper like mine this time it caught me by pleasant surprise for the first time I looked into her eyes and I saw the image of myself When she first captured my attention I respectfully gave a mild reaction but she grabbed and twisted until I finally submitted and she inspired me From then on I could only trust from the shoulders of those before us that faithfully given opportunity she would become her own identity and we would incite a war with words
The death of my daughter's father brought several thoughts into the forefront of my mind. It's hard to believe that twenty-five years ago we were welcoming our child. It seems odd that he left this earth so soon. We spent those same twenty-five years seeing as little of each other as we could. It became apparent that the only thing we wanted to have in common was our love for our daughter. The thought I struggled with the most was his soul. In the time we spent growing apart, I spent that time growing closer to God. I wrote the book Repent: And Give God the Respect He Deserves because many people think that they may have plenty time to do everything but build a relationship with God. Therefore I wanted to reiterate the importance of repentance.
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