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Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [MOL] To Frank
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)
>
>Listen to Moses,"Lord,let me die,"how
many of us have cried that prayer?(Num
>11:15
>
>Or
Elijah,"take my life,I am no better than my ancestors"(1 Ki
19:4)
>
>I assures you Liz,I will be back,just let me rest under
this Juniper tree
>for awhile.Love
Frank
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>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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>> >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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