May 11, 2009
Y’all?
I’m in a place where I don’t know quite where to be…
Just got off the phone with my brother. I know there are believers and non-believers alike among the ‘flock. As near as I can estimate, there’s nothin’ wrong with either position. It amounts to me such as like “none of us know what is pertinent in this equation.” We move. We do. As is given to us to do. We have skills to bear upon it. Some skills are just what is needed in a moment. Some skills we will learn as we go though the days to come.
For me it isn’t about prayer for a miracle. Somehow, it’s more like meeting the days to come with Grace and “owning” the part we played in the end of our days.
Holy crap, people? Is this how it goes?
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Great wisdom in your view here, my dear Rick. I think you are right that we are always going to be faced with things too large to grasp–too large to know exactly what to do with. And I think you are also right that sometimes faith in the power of love is the only strength we have, and thus our strength can be an honoring of it. Everything falls away–but somehow I think this does not diminish the style and courage with which we face it. You are a loving man, my friend, and the Heroic lives in your urge to be there for those in need. And they will know that. And that will be what they most need, arriving at just the right time.
I don’t know what to say, except know that we think of you.
All I know is the care I have for you, dear Rick.
Rick – I echo Darryl, Cooper, Deron, and others who will comment later. We think of you, we care for you, we hold you in our hearts.
Oh, Rick. Some of us have been where you are now, although no one can ever really know what another goes through. I know only that there can be joy and great love even in illness. It is a different kind of life, but it is life. We are with you.
Y’all. You rock me like a baby. Thank you so much.
We love you very much, we do.
I’m never really good with the words, so I’m glad there are others who are.
My thoughts are with you.