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"I Believe in you!"
A message of Hope...stories from the
road.
By Bob Perks
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Hello, my Friend!
Good Monday Morning to you!
Make it a great day. It is a gift given to you to
celebrate
life.
Life is life, my friend!
My best always,
Bob and Marianne
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Perks Pearl of Wisdom
"Don't wait for life to change. Change to meet it
head on."
Bob Perks
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I humbly thank you in advance...
Love always and all ways,
Bob and Marianne
Perks ********************************************
All stories copyright 2007 Bob Perks
Today's message:
"Life is life!"
By Bob Perks
"Life is life." My wife said that to me once in an
effort to help me
deal with a challenge I was facing at the
time.
Well, here's a little bit of life.
In my last message I mentioned to you that we were
going to the
Bloomsburg Fair. It truly is one of the highlights
of our year. A
perfect place to celebrate the last day of summer and the
bountiful
memories we harvested throughout the year since the last
visit.
With much excitement and anticipation we hurried through
our morning
chores on Saturday and rushed out the door.
The first hour was like old times. We always park in
the same section.
We always enter through Gate 5. We always head to
Top of the Beef for
the best roast beef sandwich anywhere.
It was perfect. Then things changed.
I also updated you on my family. Since I often write
about them and have
turned to you for prayer during our most challenging
times, I feel like we
are "old friends I've never met."
Something spoke to me Friday and said tell them
how they are doing. I reported
everything was just great.
Things changed on Saturday. Well, maybe they didn't
change. Maybe we were
just reminded that "life is indeed life."
Normally we would walk around the entire fair once and
then return to places
we wanted to see again before we left for the
day.
This time we couldn't even make it around once. In
fact, we stopped at least
six times because we had to.
Marianne's fibromyalgia ripped into her with a vengeance. My own new physical
limitations offered little support to her. At one
point she was so pale we thought
she was going to pass out. Her hot flashes brought
on by her cancer treatment
caused her to sweat so profusely that I ran to a nearby
restroom to get wet towels.
Life is life.
We sat there not saying a word. We didn't need
to. We know each other so well after
18 years that we speak without saying a word.
We suddenly came to the conclusion that life will
never be exactly as it was before. Our visits to the fair will be limited and we need to
be better prepared. But in new yet undiscovered
ways we will learn to find joy in other ways.
I wish I could blame it on old age. But she is only
48 and I am 57. These things
were somewhere in the distant future.
Life is life.
I also updated you on Keith and Sarah. I said they
had not begun another attempt at
having a child and I had no idea when or even if they
would.
They stopped by today. "We will be trying again next
month," he said.
We were cautiously happy for them. As I mentioned,
this past few months have
been a challenge for them because two babies were
born within about a month's
time to Sarah's brothers. I worried and watched
Keith graciously try to celebrate each birth.
He was genuinely happy for them
and held both babies with a longing, aching heart.
"If there is anything we can do, just call me," I said to
him today.
An few hours after they left the phone rang.
I was cutting the grass as Marianne came into the yard
waving the phone.
"It's Keith!" she said.
There was a softness in his voice. The kind of tone
I've heard all too many times as he struggled
with life issues.
"What's up?" I asked.
He then proceeded to tell me that Sarah's sister announced
today that she is expecting.
Keith walked into a brick wall.
"Keith...life goes on for everyone else. It doesn't
wait for the playing field to be level and fair,"
I said with that fatherly tone I am supposed to have at
times like this.
But this one hurt. Not to diminish the joy and
sacredness of the announcement, but the first
words out of my mouth when I hung up was, "Ah, come on
God! Give him a break!"
Then I heard, "Life is life."
He was given the ultimate "break" in life. He
was given his life back when the cancer odds
were against him. He is a
remarkable man with a wonderful wife. He has been given more
breaks than most.
And I humbly asked God to forgive me.
So, here they go again. I will worry. It is my
job. I will pray, beg, negotiate, plead and bargain with
God just like I did when he faced cancer.
And here we go again. Facing yet another challenge
in our life as husband and wife. The truth is
she could have died from her cancer, too. If life
says we just have to move slower, walk shorter
distances or sit in one place, I will love it because I
will be sitting with the love of my life and
watching Keith's children head off
to the fair.
"Life is life"
"I believe in you!"
Bob
I encourage you to share my stories but I do ask
that you keep my name and
contact information with my work.
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"I Wish You enough!"
© 2001 Bob Perks I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess. I wish you enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Goodbye." |
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