Tomorrow is the 3rd Annual FLHW Charity Golf Tournament and it strikes me once again how blessed I am in the midst of the medical crisis within my body.
The forecast is calling for clear skies and a high of 81 degrees, absolutely perfect weather for golf! The tournament has been full for about six weeks and we have sponsors and donors galore. Again, the kindness of strangers is staggering.
As I write this I am listening to an absolutely wonderful song, a few years old but a real keeper:
I’m Feeling You – Santana w/The Wreckers (Michelle Branch)
Here’s to God blessing us with: golf, friends, family, strangers, compassion, kindness, faith, love and hope. I will try to express this to the many, many people I see tomorrow but with the hustle and bustle of getting everything coordinated, it sometimes can be hard to get this point across appropriately.
Though I will be glad to see everyone and am appreciative of their efforts, I wish none of us had to be there in the first place. They would not be there if it weren’t for me and Prostate Cancer but the day would not be such a success if it were for their willingness to put their work, their families and their lives on hold for one day.
So I think back to a prayer I posted on March 6, 2006
Thoughts in Solitude
by Thomas Merton
by Thomas Merton
My Lord god, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you ,will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore, I will trust you always, though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Amen
On behalf of my dad, warrior in the fight, and the rest of us who love him,thank you.
Amen