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long, he was separated before the year was over. His new
bride found living with a diabetic more than she could handle.
After that his health diminished, with each year he became
more ill, until it was time to be placed on an organ transplant
list. He waited almost two years for an organ to become avail-
able, with each passing day he became weaker. We wondered
if he would live long enough to have the surgery. Finally, an
organ became available and he made it through the surgery.
After the surgery nothing seemed right and the doctors told my aunt to take him home
to die. My aunt and uncle knew of a healer who visited my cousin prayed over him and
a miracle occurred. He was well and resumed a very fruitful ten years. He took up bik-
ing and enjoyed those borrowed years. Finally he succumbed to the illness in his for-
ties. He lived longer than anyone expected. He lived with abundance.
I often have reflected why his cross so much heavier than mine. I do not know.
On this second day of Lent we are invited to daily discipline and choice for life—for life
in common, for a life that cares for others, for a life that trusts God in the face of hard-
ship and trials, for a life that will be redeemed and restored and will become a life of
abundance beyond any of our present hopes. My aunt and uncle and cousin taught
me this throughout my life.
P
RAYER
Good and gracious God, help us each to carry our crosses. Give us strength to be with
others as they carry their crosses. Help us to reflect on these Lenten mysteries. We ask
this in your holy name.
Amen
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AWN
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Parishioner
Kurt in the man in the center
with the teethy grin, in sun-
glasses at his college gradua-
tion.