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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 2/5/2002 11:20 AM (GMT -6) |   | A Good Mourning... (Pray for D.)
"I believe in the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting." (Nicene Creed)
D. is a student who comes to art once a week. Last Tuesday was his last time. He had an operation to remove some cyst--not supposed to be complicated. The students now know that he is very sick. They don't know how bad. Its a special ed. school. They will be led through smaller adjustments.
(Some times anonymity is good -- God knows who he is.)
Lunch conversation away from students suggests that he may be brain dead. I don't know. I printed a glossy color picture of him in a red sweater one of the teachers bought him in December for the Christmas music production. He had a big smile, the sweater, and stood next to a desk-sized Christmas tree. He looked good. And his grandmother really liked the photo when I printed one last time. And he liked it too. Lots. It was a "self-image" I wanted to help him with. He had other images competing "for him."
I printed the picture for the memorial that we hope won't happen, but probably will.
I don't know if D. has any brain functions or not. But I presume he is alive. It strains academics to ask what the deal is, for a "psychosomatic unity of body and soul" to be, perhaps, partial. I'm guessing that "even if" that part of him is there. Whatever. But the photo was "for him." And Christ is "for him." And OUR PRAYERS are (Do it!!!) "for him." The BODY functions, and Christ is the Head.
I don't know D.'s church life. I presume that a black grandmother in this town knows Jesus. I presume that anybody who is D.'s grandmother prays. One of his other special teachers -- who teaches speech -- was feeling bad for riding him for the last several months. Considering. Part of you wants naturally to feel bad for him, and make it superficially better by "making nice." The physical therapy teacher told her that everything we do is for the good of the students. She should not let herself feel bad. I made an analogy for her: that if someone danced with a partner that was really good, that they would dance better than they really were capable. The teacher was the great "dancer" -- making D. "dance better." That is "for D." That is Grace.
You just have to put it in the Shepherd's hands at this point. But in His hands I also have to wonder. My two boys last night were expressing yearning hope, that as D. sleeps and cannot wake, that Jesus would come to him. That D. would be receptive to Jesus. I yearn and hope the same.
Body and Soul. All of us is created to be the bearer of Christ. All of us needs Him, wants Him. For us. For D.
I don't think that it is "all over." I think that even with the "clock" ticking down......that the ball is in play. "Go, Lord Jesus. Go, Fight, Win!!!"
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churchmouse522
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| Posted 2/5/2002 1:58 PM (GMT -6) | | Blessings PoW. I'm praying.
Mouse
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deal22000
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| Posted 2/5/2002 2:21 PM (GMT -6) | | Pow,
for whatever it's worth, my family and I are praying.
deal | | Back to Top | | |
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selah
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| Posted 2/6/2002 1:52 AM (GMT -6) | | PoW, I'm here too.
love,
selah
"Then He showed me the river whose waters give life, sparkling like crystal, flowing out from the throne of God and of the Lamb." Rev. 22:1
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BJS
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| Posted 2/6/2002 2:46 AM (GMT -6) | | Will be praying. . .
Brett
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trosie
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| Posted 2/6/2002 3:27 AM (GMT -6) | | POW, I'll be praying too.
trosie
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Modes of Thought
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| Posted 2/6/2002 4:44 AM (GMT -6) | | me too.
"Christianly understood, truth is obviously not to know the truth but to be the truth. Despite all modern philosophy, there is an infinite difference here..." SK | | Back to Top | | |
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Springs
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| Posted 2/6/2002 10:01 AM (GMT -6) | | I'm there.
Bless your heart.
Springs
"God has instituted prayer so as to confer upon his creatures the dignity of being causes." — Blaise Pascal
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 2/6/2002 11:24 AM (GMT -6) | | About 1:30 today M.'s booming desperation voiced his pain: "My best friend died. And I just want him back!" They had been in the same class last year. D. was people centered and humorous; with dome social alienation undercurrents, that would lead him to look for shortcuts. M. took the news particularly hard. he is bright enough, and also mentally disabled enough for this to be very hard.
Pray for all the students. Pray for the teachers. Pray especially for the African-American students that looked up to this gregarious, easygoing, attention-paying young man. D.
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 2/11/2002 11:57 AM (GMT -6) | | CHAPEL tomorrow will be a FUNERAL MASS for
D.
(I want to put his name here. But edited it because...)
It has hit lots of kids and lots of teachers really hard.
PRAY:
- For D., of course.
- For his Family -- Grandmother particularly.
- For the Students, especially the Jr. and High students.
- For the teachers.
Thanks!
PotOnWheel
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 2/12/2002 1:30 AM (GMT -6) | | Sorry.........but I've got to write this.
D. will miss art today. Instead he will be upstairs in the church for his viewing. Probably his whole class will be there. Maybe not. They will probably all come to his funeral the hour later. They need permission slips to attend this last class with D. D. seemed very distracted two weeks ago, his last class with me. the last time I saw him. He didn't do much work. He wasn't very creative. But he as social. That was D. The next day he didn't come out of anesthesia, in the hospital. A cyst removed. And that week later he died.
Today we go be with D. one last time.
PotOnWheel
(ISA 64:8 "Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.")
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Starkman
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| Posted 2/12/2002 9:35 AM (GMT -6) | | POW,
Just letting you know I'm reading this thread and will keep you in prayer, too!
Starkman
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Springs
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| Posted 2/12/2002 10:26 AM (GMT -6) | | Me too, PoW.
-S
"God has instituted prayer so as to confer upon his creatures the dignity of being causes." — Blaise Pascal
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