This is about Cancer, and yet it is about life, all of it.
Many of us get stopped, or slowed by fears. If not our own fears then the voices of the fears of others, we have heard down through the ages. Your father, your brother, or your Aunt etc. the voices who said" Why are you doing that?", " you can't make that work...", or " no way will you never succeed..." or cancer is the end...
Figure out who those voices are and start talking back, and take your future back. "Be Believing", and use that belief to quiet the negative voices. Because dear friends; today is the best day for accomplishing your dreams.
I will not give up, even though the medical tests are not yet in, but cancer or no cancer, this is not the beginning of the end, this is the beginning, of the future... mine your ours, this is as the old saying says, the first day of the rest of my life. Life, not of death, not of failure, but of living and success.
Most of you know I am upset with the changes on Gather, yes I am, but it matters not, today is still the best day for me to begin the great adventure that is life, and if not begin for the first time, then to begin again.
I have so very much to give, I will not let any diagnosis or naysayer, get me believing life is gone and that hope is dead. Life is what we will make of it, today tonight, each and every precious second of it...
This is a discussion of my own adventure into tomorrow, but I hope you will take it as an invitation for you to begin your own. I believe in you.
M. Emmett Townsend
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Thanks for this message to serve as a reminder to take one day at a time for it may be the last. Yes, today is the first day of the rest of our lives and we can do what we choose with it. Each day God gives us a new day, like a blank sheet of paper to write on. My story will be enjoying life.
Good writing. God be with you in your journey of life.
We will not give up into the hands of this worldly debachery! You go guy!
The Lord is with those who seek,
Those who love more than the present,
With those who stand at the ready,
For the coming of the Lord is steady!
A thousand may fall by your side,
Many will stand in pride,
But those who truly seek,
Are standing with the lowly and meek!
Blessings to you always my friend!
Thank you for sharing this with us.
God Bless You
Just stopped to say Hi and have a blessed day.
As the Bard said centuries ago,
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
"DAYS GONE BY"Where all photos are black and white and articles have contrast!!
Not so much.
Fight, sir. And, fight to win.
Be prepared to wage the big war time effort. Simply to live, share, love, BE another day. Do not take on words or fortunes that others say that you have, or have not.
Decide what you want--for yourself and for others.
And then go make that happen.
The power of who you are, and what you be made of, knows no limits.
Accept no limits from others.
Do what is best------for you.
Blessed be.
Power and peace to you.
Wilka
never give up the fight... you are strong...
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God is near, confide in him.
Dear friend, when the test results come in, no matter what they show or don't show, you're a fighter through and through. Know and know this well - you have an entire army here to fight for and with you!
God Bless,
Marilyn
or Our Neighborhood, which as some of you don't know, Emmett wrote the first and best post describing this group.
And Mark has asked me (since I have the computer and he doesn't) to also feature it in his group, Grass Roots Writing
or
www.grasswriting.gather.com
Marilyn and Mark
No cancer. and no loss of hope...
Thank you, for all you have done...