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Yesterday I sang a quartet piece with a family, who’d just lost their father, a strong powerful bass. The three, the mother, son and daughter invited me to sing in his place, and as I sang along, thoughts went through my mind. How easy it would have been for them to have said, ‘We’re not celebrating Christmas, because there’s a death in our family!’
Oh, I hear this very often.
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Something that keeps my wife from having a good night’s sleep is when she hears that one of our daughter’s is not well. Initially, I used to think it was the doctor in her, trying to find a medical remedy, but now I think it’s all about being a mother.
I recall an article, written by a young mother:
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There were tears in her eyes when I entered the room many years ago. I knew she had been on the phone and I wondered who had made her cry. “Dad,” she asked, “am I a failure?”
“Are you?” I asked.
“I don’t know,” she said, her eyes brimming with tears.
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It was many years ago that I landed at the hospital where my wife practiced, to meet the mother of a baby who had been born with a physical deformity. The mother was not there but the grandmother was. “Why?” she sobbed, “did God do this to my daughter. Hasn’t my daughter got enough troubles without having to be burdened with a physically handicapped child?”
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.
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Something that breaks relationships, especially among siblings is the grabbing of property, oftimes in a way, in which one brother or sister gets less, or is cheated out of what is rightfully theirs. Or, it could be grabbing someone else’s property.
Do you think garnering property will bring happiness into your life?