Cheating "Death"

[dessert]

Sorry I had to go out for a few hours, you don’t see the posts #10 and #11? Wow this is getting weird.

 

[dessert]

I see both post’s, #10 and #11 as “the Game is Done”

Yes this post I know is what you were getting across and found on your sites you listed, I see this one just fine. Someone is messing around. Maybe we should let a moderator know about it?

 

[dessert]

I see both post’s, #10 and #11 as “the Game is Done”

Thanks for this poem and story, didn’t know it was in so many films. I have seen Out of Africa and wondered where that poem was from, that they recited when he was washing her hair.

Have you seen some of the Father Brown series? You have to buy it it is not on any station. It reminds me of a few of them, too. I will look at that series different now and Sherlock Holmes.

 

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Thanks for this poem and story, didn’t know it was in so many films. I have seen Out of Africa and wondered where that poem was from, that they recited when he was washing her hair.

Have you seen some of the Father Brown series? You have to buy it it is not on any station. It reminds me of a few of them, too. I will look at that series different now and Sherlock Holmes.

I did a search on the Father Brown series and found that Chesterson wrote them. Alot of stories to cover and I glanced over some of them. Interesing.ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/chesterton/gk/c52fb/

My main interest is in certain artist, Dore’ being one of them for his religous woodcuts, Bloch’s depictions of the passion, and some of Bouguereau’s prints of angels and Mary. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner mirrors my life closely, having been in the military when I was diagnosed with cancer, then chemo (a fate worse then death), to an illumination about love from God, being led back to the Church and even a helpful priest putting me on solid ground as the hermit did. The mariner had to tell his tale for relief of his agony.
" He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all."

To conclude, I don’t think there is a way to cheat death, just an altered course with a price, maybe an impossible price to pay. One that only the Lord can and has payed for us. St. Paul called it a ransom from death, to be reconciled with God from the wages of sin. My question is it a free gift to us? Or must we tell our tale? Tim

 

[Simon_X]

It could well be said that my father “cheated death” many, many times in his youth. Raised during the depression, he and his friends got their kicks by jumping moving trains, hunting coral snakes and cottonmouths, swiming in the bayou, racing horses bareback at night, driving the family car (at age 9 – and that was before power steering), sniffing gasoline fumes, diving off bridges, and hanging out in the “hobo jungle.”

During his adolescence he was a commercial fisherman who stayed out in the Gulf during the big storms (nearly losing the boat on several occasions), got into barroom brawls, attempted to drink an entire fifth of whisky, and raced motorcross.

Even in his adulthood he had a day when he was nearly killed or maimed three times. First he was on the roof of a building when its antenna was struck by lightning, then a vat of caustic flake erupted and sprayed him all over, and then a lawnmower blade came loose and whizzed past his ankles, missing by six inches.

We’ve never understood why exactly Dad was spared so many times during his reckless life. By all rights, he shouldn’t have made it to age 10. But he will be turning 80 in February, and is working full time and helping out with the grandkids when he’s not. The best we can figure is, God had a very important reason for keeping Dad around. Maybe it was to ensure that my husband and I would come into the Church? I don’t know. But I’m grateful.

Wow M., if your father ever writes a book or they make a movie about him, I’am the first in line!

 

[Muzhik]

Why is it some seem to cheat death? Have you heard this expression? I assume God has more for them and there is a purpose for everything.

I don’t think you should ever try to cheat Death. It’s like betting against the house. I also don’t think you should laugh in the face of Death. Instead, ring Death’s doorbell and run away. Death hates that.