I'll never forget the day someone said that quote in front of my brother-in-law Mike.
He called BS on it right away. He said, "I don't believe that. Look at the people who
commit suicide." You don't have to look far to find people in desperate situations. Sometimes it really seems folks get more than they can deal with. I opened an e-mail yesterday from a woman Tim transplanted with who we have remained in contact with. (Is "with" a preposition? My senior year English teacher would be mad to read that sentence) Marlene is a single mom and just a year or so older than Tim. I hated seeing her go through a stem cell transplant by herself
and did whatever I could do to help lessen her fear. She just went back on treatment a few weeks ago and would you believe had a stroke at work a few days ago. She DROVE HERSELF to the hospital
in the middle of it and after doing scans and telling her she had a stroke, they also found lesions
on her brain and told her she has MS. I just want to scream at this news. She moved here over 20 years ago from LA to get her baby son out of a bad neighborhood. Her family is across the country and Jersey is home to her now. This girl is not getting a freekin' break and I'm pretty
darn mad. I just started going to Bible lessons at my church. I don't get to church enough and being raised Catholic(I'm Lutheran now) I don't know diddly about the bible. We were reading
a passage a few weeks back where God threatens to punish a man as well as generations of his family to follow if he disobeys him. Kinda flies in the face of that "forgiving God" stuff. I sat there
and wondered which one of my ancestors screwed up so bad that I have them to blame for my
tales of woe. Now I'm wondering what the heck kinda grudge is being played out on my friend
Marlene. I just don't get it sometimes. I gotta lay down. I've got a stomach ache just thinking about this.
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I'm so sad to hear about your friend. Sometimes there are no answers, and the ones people invent to try and make each other feel better can come across as trite and condescending. I hope Marlene can find some peace in all of this horror. And I hope you can, too.
THANK YOU Cassie,
It's a hard life we live. Just seems like it's always something.
I echo what Cassie says. I am so thankful that people like Marlene have people like you to support them through such a terrible time.
Not to get all bible on you, but I recommend the Gospels for someone who is picking up the bible and trying to make any crazy sense of it. In John 9 the smart religious folks brought a blind man to Jesus and said who is at fault that he is blind...is it his parents? Jesus gave them a zinger of an answer, which he continually does to religious folks who think they have all the answers throughout the gospels.
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