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NIDA grant recipient Dr. Hansel Tookes embraces IDEA participant Melissa in Miami, FL.
Credit: NIDA / Photographer: Sonya Revell
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This dock channel leads out to the Halifax River. The largest marina in Daytona is downtown, on Beach Street. The Halifax Harbor Marina is where friends of mine live, and so I spend some time there now and then, watching the water, boats, and wildlife. The boating lifestyle isn't for everybody, but those who live on boats don't seem to want to exchange them for houses until they are too old to still have their sea legs!
This view is especially poignant for me, since a couple of weeks ago, my friends and I had just gotten back from a drive, and a photo shoot, when we heard the news that the man in the boat just behind the big one had been found dead by his girlfriend.
Before learning of his fate, I had been in a hurry to get home and get things organized for work the next morning. When something like this hits you, though, everything else fades into the background. We waited while the police finished up their reports, and for the medical examiner to arrive to determine cause of death. It was completely sobering, especially since just hours before, we had been having a quiet prayer meeting right about where this shot was taken, and we sensed nothing unusual, even though the man had been dead for hours, perhaps even a day or two.
Just before they wheeled his body down the dock, leaving for the morgue, where he would be autopsied, his traumatized lover, stunned and sobbing, made her way out to a waiting car, while two friends held her up so she wouldn't stumble and fall. I've only heard that kind of grief coming from a human being three times in my life. The first was at my highschool boyfriend's funeral after he died of leukemia, and his mother couldn't be consoled. The second was when my own mother died, and I was the grieving person left behind, and the third was that night. I cried for my dad when he passed, but we weren't that close, and it was nothing like that.
That woman's pain made me realize how precious life is, and how we should value others, but it also made me realize that certain situations leave people completely vulnerable and unprepared, and I'm not talking about just the grieving over a loved one. I'm talking about the complications that can arise after a loved one passes.
The lady whose boyfriend died, had never married him, or, I should say, he never married her. They lived on the boat together, and when he died suddenly, she not only found herself without a lover, but without a home! She had no legal right to the boat, and she had just lost her job, too! Thank goodness she had some good friends who came to her aid when she called! Now, she will have to live with family in another city. Her life is permanently disrupted and altered simply because they were not legally married.
Many of you on here know my religious beliefs. I am a born again Christian. (The term is redundant, since no true Christian ISN'T born again, but I use the term to denote that for me it is much more central to my life than for most. I'm not better, but perhaps a little more zealous than some.) Anyway, while morally I side with scripture on issues such as marriage being between a man and a woman, and know that sleeping around is considered wrong by God, I still can recognize a permanent couple when I see one, regardless of the legality. When people choose to make a life together, there should be some way to designate property, etc.
People I know would believe that this lady made her own bed, and now she must lie in it. While technically that is true, there's certainly no compassion coming from that perspective! She helped pay bills, and cook, and shared a life with her lover. His decision not to marry probably had its roots in bad relationships of the past, (who hasn't had those?!) and while the commitment was in his heart, it wasn't on paper.
We Christians can come across somewhat judgmental about our stand on moral issues. I don't judge. I know that I am far from sinless, and that I do plenty that could be judged by others, and by God! I DO feel that if a couple lives together monogomously, there should be some laws in place to protect things like property. I've been told that in many places, if an unmarried person is hospitalized, their partner can't even visit or receive updates simply because they're not married
Perhaps it's time to consider life partnership as a legal route to protect people with common law marriage and gay relationships. All I know is no matter if this couple was living "in sin" or not, I don't think that he would've wanted her to go through what she's going through now, and had he really thought ahead, might have at least taken some legal steps to ensure she wouldn't be left without a home after his death.
Life is complcated enough without having to suffer something like that on top of grieving for a loved one! Is there a way not to compromise one's faith and beliefs without becoming callous and judgmental? I think so. Love the sinner; hate the sin. On that Sunday night a couple of weeks ago, that phrase made more sense to me than it ever had before. We are all imperfect, and there's not one of us who hasn't done something wrong in our lives. Compassion rules.
com-passion, 2023
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made with vinyl, cut out with the sihouette sd -- these are jars to hold money for the Compassion International Children.
Compassion.
Exposition (MAS, Antwerp, Belgium).
Round glass window with the act of mercy (Antwerp, 19th century).
We pray for Cristian, a little boy we sponsored in Honduras, with our children over dinner so often. We talk about the things he likes and ways to make his sponsorship successful. This is a photo Kristi took in the Carlos side of The Compassion Experience.
Photo taken inside The Compassion Experience inside the "Carlos" side when it was at North Side Baptist Church and such a great experience.
Sponsorship | The Compassion Experience, Compassion International
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Compassion.
Exposition (MAS, Antwerp, Belgium).
Bread being distributed to the poor by David Vinckboons I (ca; 1600).
"This photo was taken in Nubia, Egypt while our HUG group was visiting a local village. We rode camels to the village and were welcomed into a villager's home where we were served tea by a kind, warm couple. Their precious baby was being passed around by all the girls in our group, and I was able to hold her for about ten minutes. She absolutely stole my heart." Photo courtesy of Lacey Brown.
This is the a Buddha I inherited from my grandfather when he passed away.
He sits facing east in a little wooden house under my favorite staghorn fern.
Through Compassion this year's Group showed that service can be fun and that there is no joy like helping others who may not be as fortunate. Through Sustainability the group was able to enhance their knowledge of the what it means to preserve life on Earth. Discovery Program 2011 "Become a part of the Program, Become a part of the Passion, Become a part of the PRIDE."
Make no judgments where you have no compassion.”
—Anne McCaffrey (b. 1926), novelist
The values we live by are worth MORE when we pass them on.
My heartfelt sympathy and compassion to the people of Japan
and all those who have lost family, friends, homes, farms
and wellbeing in the earthquake and tsunami.
I hope and pray the Japanese will overcome this shocking tragedy...
no group invites please
We took a walk for a few minutes together. The street became his photographs. - Bruce Davidson - Davidson on Henri Cartier-Bresson., Bruce Davidson Photographs by Bruce Davidson , ISBN: 0671400673
Compassion.
Exposition (MAS, Antwerp, Belgium).
Glass window: two apostles visit John the Baptist in prison by Abraham Van Diepenbeeck (1600-1619).
Vietnam Women's Memorial
Looking at the statues of Vietnam Women’s Memorial today, I find it exceptionally important to recognize those who serve as medical professionals, to heal, comfort, and cure. How selfless and virtuous to risk one’s own life and serve others?
A terrific read. A sincere and honest look ay human feelings and how much we need to allow when we relate to one another. Walk a few miles in "other" shoes.
Police and firemen badges from around the world as a sign of compassion to those who died in the tragedy of the World Trade Center, september 2001.
Kletterrose Compassion®
Rosa Compassion®, Harkness, 1972, ADR 1976
Die edel geformten Blüten der Kletterrose Compassion in Apricotrosa mit gelben Schattierungen erscheinen in großer Fülle von Mai bis November. Ihr starker Duft und ihre gesunde Wüchsigkeit machen die Compassion zu einer besonders wertvollen Kletterrose.
Kreuzung aus White Cockade und der pink blühenden Prima Ballerina.