• The End Is Drawing Closer and Closer

    February 24, 2025
    Faith, Life, Uncategorized

    Over the last 48 to 72 hours the love of my life is starting to struggle more and more. The reality of this hits every second harder and harder. Just when I think I can’t cry any harder I seem to be able to pass that mark time after time. That is with her still being here, but the harsh reality is that the end may be close. These are the times that you put aside any differences with family members. Those things don’t matter at this point. Her daughter is traveling this week and we hope she makes it until she returns. Regardless I have a phone call in my future that will be the hardest I have ever made and that is to tell her daughter that her mother is gone.

    Personally, I am in pure survival mode. I do whatever it takes to get me through one more second. I do sleep some but when I awake I can’t go back to sleep with my mind racing in so many different directions.

    She has said that when something happens to her she wants me to take a trip to the beach! of course that would be a hard thing to do because once she is gone I will be all alone and in ways that hurts even more.

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  • Valentines Day 2025 Is Going To Be Sad

    February 11, 2025
    God, Life

    As Valentine’s Day approaches at the end of the week, it will be a special day for my wife and I because it will probably be our last together. Of course, we never know when it will be the “last” of anything. But this is different because of her failing health. Just to think we met through a Christian Singles paper ( long before e-Harmony and the like) in 1996. She thought I was too young for her. ( She is about 10 years older). I was in St. Louis and she was in Nashville. She had a career in Nashville and it just made more sense for me to come to Nashville.

    It has been some ride and I would do it all over again in a split second.

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  • How Are Your Nails Doing? ( Not the Ones on Your Hands)

    February 11, 2025
    Faith, Life, Uncategorized

    When we think of nails, we often think of the ones we have on our hands. Yet we all have nails in our hands that are far more significant than the ones that many like to paint with different colors.

    The ones I am referring to are the ones that the struggles of daily life give us each day. We might think of them as small or big, but in reality, they are all small compared to the nails hammered into Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’s hands on that fateful day so many centuries ago.

    I know it can be difficult when the nails seem so big that we don’t see how we will ever get through the pain and suffering but always remember that all of your “nails”
    are small in comparison. Besides, there is a way for all of us to remove those nails from our hands and it is a relatively simple thing that can be so difficult and that is to be in the word of God each day.

    I know for me personally that has been a major struggle due to the life events that are out of my control.

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  • Not Knowing What To Say?

    January 30, 2025
    God, Men, Uncategorized

    Sometimes in our lives, we simply do not know what to say and that’s ok. I think we need to avoid saying something like ” I know how you feel or I understand what you are going through?” The reality is that none of us truly know what someone else is going through because often the person you are speaking to doesn’t understand what they are going through either. There is nothing wrong with expressing to someone that you truly don’t understand. You can be empathic, loving, and caring, and often that can be enough. I think it is also important that they may be more emotional than would you think but they can be dealing with issues that they had thought about in theory but now are facing the reality of it and that can be a very lonely place for them.

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