For those of you who still read this blog - I still post here - you may or may not have seen the post about Mark Flacco, one of my coworkers. He passed away on December 8th. He was 62 years old.
In the past few years, I've seen these great people die. Meghan Mulqueen-Taylor, Sergeant Donna Jean Bachmayer, Cindy Felicitti, Mark Flacco, and the list goes on.
Most of these people above were young, and taken away at the best times of their lives. Obviously, I realize we are all going to die, but I wish I knew why these people went to the Lord so soon.
All these friends were good, decent people, mostly trying to make my city a better place. I don't understand why all my friends were dying so soon.
I understand the Lord has His ways, and I have no reason to call upon God, but the constant funerals simply just perk up my depression.
I hope those who have passed on are with the Lord, and their suffering is gone forever.
I understand how you feel. I'm 55 and my Christmas cookie list is getting shorter every year it seems. Hurts to have a moment of "Hey, I need to stop in and see Jim" and realize that no, you're never going to do that again because he passed away three years ago. The bad thing is that the older you get, the longer that list gets. But the choice is to deal with it or be part of the list, so you just have to keep chugging away. My thoughts are with you, I hope you find some peace with it somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI never realized how many people die, which seems odd because my profession is seeing dead people.
DeleteI used to send out 2 boxes worth of Christmas cards, and we'd hear from almost all of these people. Last year we received 8 cards. Today is the 24th, and so far we've gotten 6.
ReplyDeleteWe don't see many cards much anymore. Mostly people on our block.
DeleteFrom a kinda cheesy book I read which has occasional flashes of serious:
ReplyDelete"The thing we call life is just everyone standing in line waiting to step up to the executioner’s block. Our actions in the here and now can move us up and down that line, but nothing we do will ever let us leave it. He said the key to living a long, happy life under these circumstances was finding actions that made you happy, while moving you further down the line away from the executioner. Once you’d found what those actions were, you let them take over your life and then eventually die as a happy old man."
Honestly, I just want to get the ticket to Heaven.
Delete