From My Loving Little Ang
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I was standing in our creek yesterday, the water rushed over my shoes and down past me-out of sight. I thought about the path that each one of us has in our life here. Like a river or creek being pulled toward the ocean by a force much greater that it is. We are drawn down our path in life yet some try to break this beautiful process by clinging to the banks-it makes the process harder when it could be so smooth. I think about my Uncle Cliff and I know that right now he is not clinging to the banks along the river-he is floating down smoothly. I believe that Cliff said to Mindy "remember, you are being moved through the journey of life by a power you cannot see. Your destination is greatness beyond your comprehension. Your purpose must be your passion for life. And peace is your resting place at the end of the day." Cliff, I believe that we are given glimpses of that power each day. -a bright, warm sun, the infinite sky filled with stars and galaxies far beyond anything we can imagine, even the perfect process we witness as the Earth grows, becomes green, blossoms and then returns as the snow falls and the sky becomes gray. We are that power, we are the rays of the sun, we are universal, we are the Earth’s flower that blooms and then returns home- its spirit freed to find another journey. Although this form returns to the Earth, the energy inside escapes and glows. We will look for you-glowing in the pink sky at the end of our day.
The first thing my Dad read on Easter moring was this Sweet Angie. He said it inspired his soul. We all love you so very much.
So beautiful Angie, and so true..
Hi cliif and all my friends at bold grace.I would like to wish you all a very blessed easter my friends.
Cliff my brother as you know i have a website on multiply.
I have set up a group there where i share mike williams teachings.
If you would place a link to it in your blog roll i would appreciate it my friend.
Thankyou brother,
grace and Peace
http://beloved223.multiply.com/
Thanks so much for sharing these beautiful words and this beautiful heart. You all are close to mine this day and every day.
Much love
Lisa
Lisa, i don’t know if you know this or not, but your Daddy offered to us, to come down there when we were young men, and we could have anything we needed, acres of woodland to harvest , catfish ponds , anything we needed, there was nothing more important to your daddy then family. My uncle Joe, paid for what collage education that i have, this family of ours came from three extraordinary men , and the women they married. i don’t know were all the love we feel came from but i know a big part of it came from the women our dads married. Don’T know why i wanted to tell you that , but just wanted to share it cuz.
Just got that lovin feelin tonight…
Awww Doug, thank you so much. You have no idea how much I needed to hear that. Mom is in beginning stages of Alzheimers and we’re having some very difficult decisions to make and it made me think of dad and his two brothers and how all of their deaths were so sudden and such a shock but I’m finding out the alternative to that is no fun either.
I’ve thought sooooo much lately about those three men and their wives and then also you three boys and your wives. How blessed we all are to have all of you in our lives. I’m trying to find a saturday the four of us kids and mom can come. I want to see you guys sooooo bad!! I love you so much and appreciate everything you share.
There are my people as adults that do some extraordinary extreme things to add excitement to there lives. As adults we never really felt a need to jump out of air planes or dive off a bridge with a rubber band tied to our feet, cause we were as kids “Sassafras tree Divers”.
If you live in a woods or near one, and have young children , you might not want to let them hear this story, unless they have watched hours of old Tarzan movies.
This woods across the gravel road from were we lived had sassyfras trees in it. They are a great tree, we would dig there roots and mom would make us sassyfras tea. The best tasting tea in the world. The best part of a sassafras tree is that they grow real fast. A sapling will grow 20-25 feet and only have a trunk diameter of two or three inches. To be a good sassyfras tree diver you would first have to find a regular tree that was in close proximity to a sassafras tree sapling, then you would climb the regular tree till you were as high or higher the the sassyfras tree. From that point you would need to shimmy far enough out on to a limb that you could dive to the top of the sassyfras tree top. After you found the courage to make the leap you only had three concerns, #1 that you grabbed the top of the tree, #2 That the tree had enough strength in its trunk to slow your fall as you rode it down , and#3 that its trunk didn’t snap off.
I know as your reading this that the Dads are saying, ” oh holly hell, i want try that,and the Moms are saying if you ever let our kids read this you will sleep in the garage for a month”, but remember that not one of us boys ever felt a need to dive out of a a perfectly good air plane.
Good nite bro
This day, April 13, 2009 will forever be remembered by me as “Root Beer Day”. I awoke today to a cold rainy blustery gray day. The kind of day that makes you want to just wrap a warm blanket around you , get that third cup of hot coffee, and read a book or watch an old movie, but instead I prepared myself for work as normal.
I only have at this time one grandchild, his name is, Andrew Wesley Purcell, therein lies the nick name Root Beer (A&W) which i rarely use in front of his mother. He is 22 months old , above average intelligence, a bit prettier then most babies, and can leap tall buildings in a single bound. His one great love is to play with anything that has buttons or knobs. When he visits, my remote control is called his beep-beep and i usually spend hours getting my TV to function right after he leaves. So it did not surprise me when after the ester egg hunt at Moms yesterday that he wanted to sit in my car and play with all the knob buttons and switches. I thought i had them all straightened out till i tried to start my car this morning and realize the headlight have been on all night.
So thank you Andy, Papa has his third cup of coffee, a warm blanket, and an old copy of “Gone With The Wind”.
Happy Root Beer Day..
lol Doug, that is so cool. I’m sitting here with an A&W as I was reading what you had written. Also, my two little grands are on there way. They live about 3 hours away. They are 18 months and 3 years old and I could so relate to your story. There’s really nothing like em!!! Luv ya cuz
Visited with Cliff today and he was having kinda a rough day when i was there. Just kinda wanting to lay on Th sofa, and snooze off and on, but i had to laugh a bit because his three dog thought this was unacceptable. It kinda reminded me of when we were young Dads trying to catch a little nap on the sofa on a sunday afternoon and our kids would pester us to get up and go out and toss the ball with them or play with them any way.
Each one of them dogs would jump on that sofa in a dead run , starting at his feet and not stopping till they bounced off the top of his head and hit the floor again. He would half heartedly swat at them but then rub there heads with a pure and sweet love.
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ,ever the same.” Flavia Weedn
Good nite bro
My wonderful wife of 39 years, knowing me as only she dose, ask me with her raised eyebrow, to maybe not post anything on here tonight. The reason she ask me that is because she could since an anger in my heart, a confusion, a frustration, a demanding need to fix and protect.
So i will do like i have always done, and tomorrow she will be my buddy and my partner , but tonight i have a question cursing through my veins and burning my heart.
“WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING GOD?”
Doug, the circumstances of life are there to teach us something of the life ‘in the spirit’, if we will but allow it, submitting to it. This is not for Cliff, but for you. Out of it you will recognize the truth from the illusion, and this is what your heart is beginning to show you. It’s great that you are questioning your god, because the answer will come, not from the sky from that make-believe imposter that our minds imagined, but from inside your heart. This is the TRUTH that Cliff discovered, that he wants you to find for yourself, and you won’t find it anywhere but IN YOUR HEART. My love to Cliff and all his family
DOUG,
I have asked the same question even though I know the answer. Audrey is right. Out of this we will recognize the truth from the illusion. Dad’s life is so much more than this.
Hi Doug, I just love you more and more as I read your heart. You did exactly the right thing by voicing your feelings of frustration. I’ve certainly asked God, What the Hell? so many times! One thing I finally had to come to terms with is I will never understand but I can trust! I have a choice. I can either continue to be angry at what I don’t understand or as your brother believes and isn’t afraid to tell us all
I can trust in His perfect love. It really is the best choice Doug but it comes at its own time for each of us. You’ll get there when you’re suppose to and until you do please know that screaming at God really is okay. In fact, I’d say it can be quite helpful for a spell.
Luv ya more than words can say
Lisa