For the Love of Us All

WITNESS

1-20-13  (  reposted from 11-14-11  )

GIVING THANKS IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES

As I sit here

Reflecting on my life

Preparing to fly to Maryland

To spend Thanksgiving

With my 2 sisters, my 4 nieces,

And other family members

Some memories flash through my mind

To times gone by

Lying there

Packed in an ice bed

For 2 weeks---with a temperature of 108

I thank God for life

Bleeding internally

My blood count going down to 3

I thank God for life

The Good Father asking me

If I wanted to say an act of contrition

Or say something in my words

Saying:  “I don’t think God

Wants me to die

But if he does

He must have a reason

And to please bless

My father, my mother, my 2 sisters,

My family and my friends,

Because it would be harder on them

Than it would be on me

I would be gone

But if God

Wanted me to live

I would live

For my family, my friends,

And for all people everywhere”

And waking up a week or two later alive

I thank God for life

Spending 3 of the next 5 years

Again in the hospital---in critical shape

On my birthday

I thank God for life

“May you never take

One single breath for granted

God forbid

Love ever leave you empty handed”                          

        (  Lee Ann Womack---“I HOPE YOU DANCE”  )

THANKING GOD FOR LIFE

All the support

I received from my parents

Never questioning---ALWAYS LOVING

I thank God for family

2 sisters---4 nieces

That give me emotional and financial support

ALWAYS being there for me

I thank God for family

An extended family

Beyond compare

I thank God for family

Old friends

That are still there for me today

I thank God for friends

New friends

That I have made from Miami

To Palm Beach Gardens and beyond

I thank God for friends

People that I have met

From all over the world

I thank God for you

Priests, clergymen and women

That I have met

I thank God for God

I thank God for you

By human standards

My life is a total failure

No health---no money or material possessions

No family ( wife or children )

But along the way

I found GOD

And I found YOU

“I have learned

The secret of being content

In any and every situation

Whether well fed or hungry

Whether living in plenty

Or in want”                                                                1 Philippians 4:12

“Be joyful always; pray continually;

Give thanks in ALL circumstances

For this is God’s will for you

In Christ Jesus”                                                             1 Thessalonians 18

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE---I LOVE YOU

Robert P. Wallman

11-14-11

Ps         November 25th would have been my Father’s 80^th birthday---there is a Mass

             For him and my Mom at Immaculate Conception church in Mechanicsville,

             Maryland.  As I do every day, I will pray for ALL families and ALL children.

WITNESS 1-20-13