[Dialogue] Prayers for Shirley

[Nancy Lanphear]

Dar Shirley,

Our prayers are spoken are spoken on your behalf while you undergo surgery
to heal your body.  May your spirit be strong as you continue on the journey
that is your life.  You are deeply loved.  Here is a poem that i s very
special to me.  I hope it's words speak to you.


BEAUTY


Beautiful are the youth
whose rich emotions flash and burn,
whose lithe bodies filled with energy and grace
sway in their happy dance of life;

and beautiful likewise are the mature
who have learned compassion and patience, charity and wisdom,
though they
be rarer far than beautiful youth.

But most beautiful and most rare is a gracious old age
which has drawn from life the skill to take its varied strands:
the harsh
advance of age, the pang of grief,
the passing of dear friends, the loss of strength,
and with fresh insight weave them
into a rich and gracious pattern all its own.
This is the greatest skill of all,
to take the bitter with the sweet and make it beautiful,
to take the whole of life in all its moods,
its strengths and weaknesses,
and of the whole make one great and celestial harmony.
                Robert Terry Weston

With love,

Fred and Nancy Lanphear


On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Tim Wegner <twegner at swbell.net> wrote:

> Susan received the following posted to the spirit retreats mailing
> list by Lauren Stearns, which I am passing on here.
>
> Tim Wegner
>
> Subject: [spiritretreats] Prayers for Shirley
> Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 11:19 PM
>
>
> I just received word from Patricia via my mom that our Shirley had a
> major heart attack this week. She is scheduled for a triple bypass
> surgery at 7:30 am tomorrow at Banner Hospital in Mesa, Arizona.
> Let's send all of our love, light, and prayers to our dear dear
> friend.
> I will post more as it comes.
> Love Lauren
>
>
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