Dear Frank,
I am glad to hear that you will be back. I know we all have down times and we need to regroup.
Are you still planning a trip to Washington State this summer/fall? I am looking forward to meeting you. If you can, try to go see the play(s) in Virginia City Montana as you come through. They are delightful. That is a summer stock theater that has been doing old fashioned melodrama every year since 1947. I have been there several times and would love to go again.
I guess I believe the world has too many wonderful things to do for me to give up on it. Read some of the poetry of Robert Frost:
>From "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy" evening:
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have Promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep
Or from "Birches"
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
It's when I'm weary of considerations,
And life is too much like a pathless wood
Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
>From a twig"s having lashed across it open.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
>Dear Liz,thanks for yor note,I appericate your concern.
>
>Job in his tragic condition cried out,"that God would be willing to crush
>me,to let loose his hand and cut me off!"(Job 6:9)
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>Listen to Moses,"Lord,let me die,"how many of us have cried that prayer?(Num
>11:15
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>Or Elijah,"take my life,I am no better than my ancestors"(1 Ki 19:4)
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>I assures you Liz,I will be back,just let me rest under this Juniper tree
>for awhile.Love Frank
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Elizabeth Patterson <eapat@ewa.net>
>To: <mol-cancer@lists.meds.com>
>Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 6:41 PM
>Subject: Re: [MOL] To Frank
>
>
>> Dear Frank,
>> Might I suggest that you go back and read the Biblical story of Job. I
>know
>> your life has been difficult. I believe, however, that if you refuse to
>> give up and live your life as though it would go on forever and yet as
>> though you were going to die tomorrow, you will want to make the most of
>it
>> every day. I am sorry you are in pain, but as far as I know this life is
>> the only one we have (at least on earth). We really should get as much out
>> of it as possible. If I am wrong and we get another shot at it, think how
>> strong you will be the next time around having lived through this.
>> Love ya.
>> Liz
>>
>> >CHRIS ,,GEN.McCARTHER SAID,"OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE,THEY JUST FADE
>AWAY"Thats
>> >what is happening to me,I,m just fading away.But I am trying to fight,so
>> >don,t give up on me yet.Frank
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>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: <CCR0417@AOL.COM>
>> >To: <mol-cancer@lists.meds.com>
>> >Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 4:45 PM
>> >Subject: [MOL] To Frank
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi Frank,
>> >> I just got to read your messages about your depression. On your feet,
>> >> soldier!
>> >>
>> >> Where is that old soldier's spirit? When you were in Nam, did you ever
>> >just
>> >> lie down on the job and quit? If not, why not? Maybe because others
>were
>> >> depending on you? How about your family, Frank? Don't tell me they
>> >aren't
>> >> loving and needing you every minute and every day you are with them,
>and I
>> >> know you love and need them too.
>> >>
>> >> You said you were a minister, a chaplain. Now I know that even clergy
>> >aren't
>> >> made of stone and they can hurt and break too. But they have an
>advantage
>> >> you see. They know as most people don't how good our God is! They know
>> >that
>> >> every minute of life is counted by Him and is precious to Him (and to
>> >us) --
>> >> and how much more important what we DO with each minute is, in contrast
>to
>> >> how many minutes we are granted! You are alive Frank! You OWE the
>> >soldiers
>> >> who aren't alive today from every war ever fought to stay alive and
>keep
>> >> fighting. You OWE it to them to live FOR them! You owe it to them to
>be
>> >the
>> >> best damn man, husband, and father you can be because that's what they
>> >wanted
>> >> for you!
>> >>
>> >> I know depression too Frank. And I know that the ONLY way out is to
>take
>> >one
>> >> step at a time; get a shower, get on your feet, and take a look at the
>> >sun.
>> >> It's shining Frank! And you are alive to SEE IT!!!! Who knows, maybe
>> >it's
>> >> there JUST FOR YOU today! Look at the birds, maybe they are singing
>JUST
>> >FOR
>> >> YOU today! And just maybe there's another old soldier up there looking
>> >down
>> >> and watching you, Frank. What will he be saying to you?
>> >>
>> >> -chris
>>
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