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Remembering Rob
August 12, 1943 - August 7, 2005 
December 3, 2006
A man I never met died today of a brain tumor. I am connected to him only by Caring Bridge and the amazing links we form here to support one another when faced with illness and loss
that would seem insupportable otherwise.
Someone quoted the following in his guestbook and I have copied it here, for I think it is one of the strongest statements I have ever read about life after death.
But the man who dares to live his life
with death before his eyes,
the man who receives life back bit by bit
and lives as though it did not belong to him by right
but has been bestowed on him as a gift,
the man who has such freedom and peace of mind
that he has overcome death in his thoughts—
such a man believes in eternal life
because it is already his,
it is a present experience,
and he already benefits from its peace and joy.
He cannot describe this experience in words.
He may not be able to conform his view
with the traditional picture of it.
But one thing he knows for certain:
Something within us does not pass away,
something goes on living and working
wherever the kingdom of the spirit is present.
It is already working and living within us,
because in our hearts we have been able
to reach life by overcoming death.
In memory of Butch Gamboa
December 11, 1962 - December 3, 2006
Journal
Sunday, December 3, 2006 I came home from Virginia with bronchitis -- and a huge concern that the leaf mold and other environmental elements there to which I may be allergic will make it difficult for me to live there.
Until now, I have always assumed that I would live near Kim and J.D. and their girls. I feel upended once again by the vagaries of life: I thought I would live with Rob until I died, NOT him!! I guess the most dangerous assumption to make in life is that you can formulate a plan and expect to get to live it....
That said, I am trying to stay warm and drink lots of fluids and finish the semester with my 9th graders -- only two more weeks!! -- and not worry too much about the future.
But I am not good without a plan to be mulling over, so...
Happy Holiday greetings to all who are reading this.
Love and blessings in the New Year,
Claudia
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Links: http://www.daveshell.blogspot.com Team Meyers website
http://www.caringbridge.org/tx/johnmeyerholtz John Meyerholtz's page
http://www.lessonsfromlou.blogspot.com Cathy Beres's remembrances of Lou
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