His health was very complicated from the begining. His folks knew his would be a short life but maybe not this short.
I'm still with the church but I think a lot of Catholics mistake style for dogma (not that there isn't misplaced dogma). I see folks going in for the big ceremonies, hats, and buildings and forgetting that stuff is superficial. I remember being a lector at the cathedral in Scranton and having our priest ask me what I thought of it. He was suprised at my lack of enthusiasm for the big show. For me that stuff is just a show like the overly professional funeral, very synthetic not very sympathetic. In our society we seem to professionalize a lot of things that should be personal, education etc... let folks who know me plant me proper don't pay some guy to come by later. It might be time to put my wishes on paper...
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
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