Relay for Life/ Team Love Never Fails
I wanted to let everyone know about our team LOVE NEVER FAILS that will be walking for the Relay for Life at the Wayne county Fairgrounds in Richmond, In., on May 22nd-23rd.
In honor of my Dad, Cliff Hazelbaker our Team will be walking from 9:00am to 9:00am the next morning working hard to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
Our Reason to Relay
The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is more than just an event to our team. It is our opportunity to help save lives from cancer by supporting the American Cancer Society.
It’s amazing to think that millions of people will be diagnosed with cancer this year. My Father Cliff Hazelbaker was one of them in 2009.
But, by taking part in Relay, We are helping the American Cancer Society save lives by:
- Helping people stay well by helping them take steps to prevent cancer or detect it early, when it’s most treatable
- Helping people get well by being in their corner around the clock to guide them through every step of their cancer experience
- Finding cures by funding groundbreaking research that helps us understand cancer’s causes, determine how best to prevent it and discover new ways to cure it
- Fighting back by working with lawmakers to pass laws to defeat cancer and rally communities worldwide to join the fight
Please support Our efforts by making a donation in honor of Cliff Hazelbaker or by joining our Relay For Life team called Love Never Fails. Together, we have the power to help create a world where cancer can no longer claim another year of anyone’s life.
http://main.acsevents.org/goto/love.never.fails
What a great idea! Wishing you all the best!
Glad to donate in memory of your Dad.
Hey Mindy
How can we donate online in the name of The Love Never Fails Team?
Peace
Geo
OPPS!!!
I did not realize the link would do it!!
Peace
Geo
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!! I am so excited to be a part of this and to do it in honor of Dad has been such a wonderful connection to him. I love you all and you mean more to me than you will ever really know. I am so blessed to be a part of the Bold Grace Family.
LOVE NEVER FAILS
Is there an address for cash donations? I have no credit card.
Yes and thank you Matt for asking!
You can send it to:
American Cancer Society
Attn: RFL of Wayne County
Team: Love Never Fails
4567 Progress Dr.
Columbus, In 47201
I’m in for 10
What is the venue for human love? Where should you dance? Do you walk in the needs of man, do you fight in his wars, do you play endless game to fight his guilt his desires his anger? when do you stop, and notice the truth.
Ask yourself what do i want to feel with my last breath, the love of man?
Mindy dances not giving a shit about the love of man for herself, but her love for man, as God dose, MINDY walks not caring about how tired her body gets, but to offer less pain to man, as god dose.
Where is the venue of human love…. it is in the heart of true love, never felt in the mind of man. Where should you dance… in the tone of your heart. Do you walk in the needs of man… if you do then step on his back to the higher ground of truth. Do you fight in mans wars.. then fight for all mankind to know they are equal in the heart of God. Do you play mans games to fight the endless guilt fear anger in your mind…then end your game knowing you have already won, you are loved unconditionally, equally, and without limits, today, tomorrow and with your last breath forever loved.
IF YOU WANT TO GIVE OUT OF GUILT that’s cool, but MINDY WANTS YOU TO GIVE, because you love mankind like god dose, All of it all the time.
Love Always Doug
MC SAYS: My master has found venues he thinks to touch others, he dances with each new friend, and thinks he can touch them, but no man can touch another man anymore then a cat can kiss a hungry coyotye.
and you wonder why im a member of CATS, …Coalition to Annihilate Them Soon
Dam cat
Freinds.. wow, what a thought. as i dance in a differant place i was friends over and over, but what is a friend? I hear people talking of there best friend,good friend, friend without benefits, true friends. MY MIND DANCED today about friends.
HOW HAS FRIENDS CHANGED FROM YEARS GONE BYE?
I have a diary of a young girl named Sarah , she was born in 1818, her diary is like your TV, COMPUTER, it was her source of entertainment. Its not like a diary she wrote in, it was a diary that she would allow those she deemed worthy to write in and then she could read what they said over and over. Over a 30 year period she let twenty or thirty people touch her most precious source of amusement, and i feel blessed to read what they said 180+ years later.
I know enough about Sarah’s life to know that a winter snow storm could leave her starving, and the simple act of gathering eggs could cost her life to a wolf that wants them too, but i knew when i read her diary that not all where allowed to write in it.. just friends.
I love my SARAH, and i love the beautiful words in her diary, but if i could have written in her diary i would have said ” Dance in the hearts of all, love them as equally as you are, and never close your book to anyone, Sarah”
Love Doug
I dont know if i can fit into a face book, my space, twitter, or a fiddly Dee, nor more then i know why i left the comfort of my mind to dance in my heart.. unless i expect to know true peace joy and love.. hum
Doug
I have felt so many times over the last year that i was going crazy. I knew i started with a sound mind, but i was living in a place my mind had never felt, and it kept going back to the look in a brothers eyes knowing i couldnt discount it , dismiss it, forget it. I was committed to knowing it. I am typing with tears because i know it would be so easy for me to say i dont care, and live in the normality of my mind, but my heart tells me to walk on.
Doug
MC SAY: The most sensuous part of a cats life can be felt in the bite of a ear, and heard in the growl of refusal, and seen in a beauty of a kitten.
can you trade cats to the government to pay property tax?
Dam cat
The most sensuous part of man is when he loves beyond his sex, blind to his gender, and truely feels the beauty of life.
love Doug
Within my tears is a truth, within my scream is a cry for it, and within my wisdom is the knowledge of it.
Doug
How crazy dose an uncle need to be, before a circle of angels will free him.
WHAT WORDS DO MY GIRLS WANT TO SHARE WITH THERE FRIENDS, CAN THEY SING THE SONG I HAVE SANG, OR DANCE THE DANCE, and what friends will listen, am i SARAHS FRIEND, did her love for other men move me or did her conditional love leave me knowing that only now she would want to hear what i have to say.
You can spend a life time wanting to be loved by man, or a moment to realise you are loved, and the dance you want, the friends you want, is all that needs love. Once you know you are loved, all that you have left is the ability to give love.
Dam you bro.. u messed me up
Doug
There is a beautiful part of me that i never expressed to anyone in 60 years because i thought it was a bad thing, but i told my Audry. I said ” i have never felt a need to be loved, but i have always felt a need to love”
You say why would you perceive that as bad.
All of my life I never felt deserving of love, and knew i was. All of my life i was touched by love, but felt unworthy, but all of my life i wanted others to feel love, and here i am at the end of my life still wanting that, but wondering why i dont feel deserving of what i have given.
Doug
I want so much to listen to the hearts of others, to sit silent in there beauty, like i did with my brother. I WANT TO SIT ARMS FOLDED IN THE PEACE OF LOVING WORDS, and smile with its beauty.
I want to offer you the truth, and let you feel the love you have given, but never felt deserving of, but i cant, and im left frustrated in my failure.
love Doug
My head is exploding now, because i came close to sharing a truth of my life.
I wont share the deepest part of me with you, only GOD KNOWS THAT, but I WILL TELL YOU I KNOW ALL THE PAIN YOU KNOW, and more, and i learned it as a baby in life.
DOUG
Goodnight kids, believe there is nothing that you have touched that i have not felt, there is nothing that has touched you that hasn’t touched me, there is no pain or love you can know, that i wont be able to mouth the words you say and feel.
my dance goes beyond your minds, and my love wonders in the truth of your hearts.
Love uncle Doug
We live ‘life’ on different levels. and when we use the word LOVE we interpret it at whatever level we are in at that moment. The physical level drives us through hormones and chemical reactions through our body, and is influenced by thought processes in our mind – we know this type of ‘love’ as sex, boy meets girl etc. The soul level of life drives us also, totally influenced by our mind desiring ‘better’ things in a world of opposites, so we choose from a wide range of types of what appears to be ‘higher love’. Within this is ‘falling-in-love’, ‘brotherly’ love, love for family, for animals, the environment, education, doing good etc etc.
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But then in an entirely different world, there is that unconditional love that Doug has discovered. We all have it running through us, connecting us to each other, but mostly we are unaware. This love has an entirely different mind from the human mind that drives us, because it frees us. It is the mind behind all things, that brought all things into existence, that knows all things, is all powerful and is everywhere at once. We KNOW when we have touched it, but mostly we attribute it to external things, – people we were with, activity we were enjoying, a place we felt we met ‘god’ in. What we are discovering is that this LOVE actually lives within us and has the ability to flow out from us to every living thing, but first we need to connect with it, allowing it to function. This love, when activated, because it lies ‘dormant’ within us till we choose to uncover it, can reach out and enliven us to become who we really are in every aspect of our life and on every level. At present we touch it and then withdraw, we go ‘in’ and ‘out’, but more and more we are becoming aware of what it is and how to connect with it more frequently. But we need each other to help keep us ‘plugged in’, we cannot get anywhere in isolation. It opens us to the REAL FAMILY and we become aware of a whole new world of which we are an essential part.
Thanks Matt! Love ya buddy!
Every time I get an email that someone donated I feel like I am a part of something bigger. I feel connected to others and not on a social level, but a spiritual one. I feel as if we are all making a difference for another family to celebrate a birthday.
It is so tempting to isolate myself from the world. It is so tempting to NOT get close to anyone ever again. It is tempting to not care…and trust me…it is possible to shut the world out, but that would require letting go of people who inspire me, enpower me, educate me and most importantly love me. All of this is tempting only because of the pain it causes. Loving someone eventually means having to let them go and me having to remain in the now…the now which will only hold amazing memories, or regrets. Is it all worth it? Is it worth loving in every way shape and form? Yes, I believe it is. When I know it is my time to leave this earth I will have an amazing life to reflect back on. Even now I find that when I sit quietly alone my mind is restful and understanding to the world around me and I realize that I am not really alone.
In his book “How to get what you want and want what you have” Dr John Gray states that it is better to love and lose than to never love at all. I think that is true. We all feel alone at times, even often, but misery loves company and we are all on this rock together wheither we like it or not.
I love your spirit M, but i think what people miss is that there is no losing in loving, but the lost part comes when we believe we didnt get in return the love you gave, and that is because man stands on this rock in his mind not realizing his freely given love is returned to his heart a thousand fold, whether we like it or not.
love Doug
“Every time I get an email that someone donated I feel like I am a part of something bigger. I feel connected to others and not on a social level, but a spiritual one. I feel as if we are all making a difference for another family to celebrate a birthday.” (Mindy)
That’s ’cause we are a part of something bigger and we are making a difference for another family to celebrate a birthday. And we are doing it together. Glad you gave us the opportunity to join you in this. Love always, Connie
We are something bigger, aren’t we Connie. We talk about family, and we try to correlate it to what we live for, we dance for the love of the family we have always known, but it leaves us absent. We know there is something bigger, but we are almost embarrassed to say it.
YOU ARE LEFT IN A PACKAGE OF 4, dancing in the hearts of all, and want to feel the life of others, confirmed, connected, approved, but our love for family, for man, for mankind, is confusing, till the truth touches us.
You are very special, and ive felt your heart, not with my mind, but with my heart, and i love you.
love Doug
There is a crying time between between your mind and the truth of your heart, there is a fight that leaves you tired, begging for rest. There is a reason for the scream between normalcy, and insanity. Because it is worth it.
LOVE Doug
Can you see tomorrows sunrise, or feel the thunder of the next storm, do you feel the heartbeat of the one born after yours stops… i believe you can, but not in your mind. But not in your mind.
THE SANITY of life is only known by the insanity of truth, heard in life, and known in death….with a tear.
Doug
MC SAYS: It is better to claw the ankles of my master till they bleed,and he cries for a lifetime, then to kiss a the lips of a coyote,and curl in lies for a night.
Can u euthanasia an American cats, or do you have to be in Asia?
DAM CAT
It is hard to curl at the feet of man, and kiss them, till you wash them with the tears of truth.
Doug
Goodnight kids.
Doug
I love this, even Jack Nicholson couldnt have said it better!
42-47″If God were your father,” said Jesus, “you would love me, for I came from God and arrived here. I didn’t come on my own. He sent me. Why can’t you understand one word I say? Here’s why: You can’t handle it. You’re from your father, the Devil, and all you want to do is please him. He was a killer from the very start. He couldn’t stand the truth because there wasn’t a shred of truth in him. When the Liar speaks, he makes it up out of his lying nature and fills the world with lies. I arrive on the scene, tell you the plain truth, and you refuse to have a thing to do with me. Can any one of you convict me of a single misleading word, a single sinful act? But if I’m telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? Anyone on God’s side listens to God’s words. This is why you’re not listening—because you’re not on God’s side.”
Can you see Jesus standing there with his sunglasses on? Or is it just me?
Love Doug
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shakin’ hands, sayin’ “How do you do?”
They’re really saying “I love you”
I hear babies cryin’, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Oh yeah!
Louis Armstrong
Thanks for sharing that song Mindy. When we were going through moms things, we found that she requested that song to be sung at her funeral. Jeff did an awesome dvd with pictures and had that song playing. I just thought it way cool that a cofc preachers wife would pick out that song to be sung. I loved it!
Love you Lisa! My Abby girl sings that song. It is one of her favs and Uncle Andy sang it at Karaoke this past Saturday and I just had to share it.
Family has been on my mind a lot over the last year. It’s been a long and winding road. We have each had to walk it separately, but we have walked with arms locked together, and our heads held high in the strength of love. There were many moments of weakness, but as one would weaken another would lift them up, and we walked on.
My thoughts recently have been do the ones that no longer walk with us truly feel us. A year ago if someone would have said that to me and they would have answered YES, I would have only heard gobblygook, gobblygook,blah,blah,blah religious stuff, but at the beginning of my journey a year ago I promised my self to put aside my mind and look deeper, and what I found was the answer is YES.
I truly believe it is possible to feel God, but not the god people speak of in there rational reasoning minds. I know this because I felt it at least once, and with that I know that not just GOD felt me feel him but all that feel him, and therefore I believe my brother felt me at least once.
I am convinced that the ones that have gone before us wait patiently on us not to call them with our minds because it is like whispering in the winds, but for us to put the receiver of our phone on our hearts so that all that love us like God dose can hear us.
Sarah mclachlan in one of her song says, I WILL REMEMBER YOU, WILL YOU REMEMBER ME, WEEP NOT FOR THE MEMORIES.
I don’t know if ill ever stop weeping for the memories, but I do know I wont as long as I feel them in my mind. What I am trying to say is not easily said, and it is even harder to feel, till you felt it once, then you know it’s possible. It is not a matter of losing your sanity, its a matter of being saner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz16ngdsG0
I know its scary on the edge, but its better then the safety of your mind.
Love Doug
Gnarled fingers and crippled feet
blinded eyes with silent ears
Weakened minds plead nobly
Answer my darkened fears
how perfect are we
Unrighteous beauty walking in muck
with shoe of nails only the ugly sooth
Vampires of love setting you free
Answer my enlightened cheers
how perfect are we
BEAT THAT BONY,im up for the valedictorian of life BIATCH..
mASTER OF sd
Who is my perfect angel? Is it the Madcat that can devour the muskrat of love, and stand above it, the Bony angel of love that can circle in words of your heart, the Freaky beauty that we all fear to love, but want to feel, maybe the Snorter of truth that leaves us needing another breath of its beauty, I think it might be the Performer that leaves us all singing beyond the heavens, then again it could be the Commander that holds us together with here reason of love, and of course there is Sweet Love, oh the sweet love of life, do you need anything else?
The master of SD will share the truth of that on secret day with his circle of angels.
Love Uncle Doug
The silents of my Sis is felt.. another road marker approaching. Forty years ago come Saturday a little blond married a string bean of a man, set forth a life of love united with a single heart, that began with a smile across a crowed dance floor, and will end with the kiss of angels.
All of us will be with you Nan, as he will be, its not by chance that the first taste of spring will be felt.
love, your brother
From the earliest moments of my life i experienced love, but I was also given the beauty of song, dance, and the marriage of its rythem. I recall a childhood of music and a beautiful woman (my mother) who would fill the house our home with music as she sang and danced, as she done her chores.
She raised three boys, and gave the beauty of song to two, and the rythem of her dance to one, but the beauty of her love is that she sat silent so that all others could be heard, seen and noticed.. I notice you MOM.
love Doug
It is so hard to hold my brother, there is a silence between our hug.
Doug
MC SAYS: When you cant take all that life deals you tuck your paws in wrap your tail around you bury your nose in your belly and pray for more then you are.
I’m buying a swimming pool , just to see how long he can tread water.
Dam cat
Why do we live? YOUR RELIGIOUS leaders will tell you to serve God, and they will tell you if you dont you will be punished , if you say go ahead do what you want, then they will say we will kill your kids, husband, mother till you say OK ill love anyone you want me to love, just dont hurt the ones i love, and you walk on, convinced that your in the arms of GOD, but your in the arms of lies.
Cold arms of fear, guilt, anger, confusion, hate, control, and worst of all the belief of lies.
There is no reason to be God fearing any longer, you are as saved as the thief on the cross.. we no longer serve God, we are his children.
love Doug
mc says: the dance in mans mind makes me want to puke, but the song in his heart leaves me in his lap.
Can u make pudding out of cat blood?
Dam cat
There is a tender touch. A warmth of man that lingers in his heart, but lost over and over attempted to touch, but feared and buried in lies.
Doug
How long can a bulldozer plow before the snow is to high?
Doug
GOOD NIGHT kids
Doug