Comments on: The Endurance of Peace http://www.ericpeters.net/2006/12/29/the-endurance-of-peace/ Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:35:49 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Curt http://www.ericpeters.net/2006/12/29/the-endurance-of-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-5226 Curt Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:39:46 +0000 http://www.ericpeters.net/index.php/2006/12/29/the-endurance-of-peace/#comment-5226 Thanks Eric, for graciously pausing to share such meaningful, personal thoughts. I'm inspired and blessed by your unscripted thoughts. I had musings along the same line last night, ironically enough, while sitting in the room of an ICU patient. My mother-in-law, according to physicians, doesn't have the vital signs to sustain life in her tired body much longer. In the last ten years, she's had thyroid, colon, and brain cancer, hip replacement surgery, eye surgery, and several surgeries related to cancer, and so much more. Just over one year ago, her vascular dementia came to such a point that she moved into our home when she became unable to care for herself. In the midst of all of the pain and turmoil illness and age, life and death bring, as I reflected near my mother-in-law's apparent deathbed, I was reminded of the peace that passes understanding, which permeates every nook and cranny of the crazy chaos we call life--if and when we have the grace and vision to see it. Life and death--maybe because they are so impactful, moving, and momentous--provide windows of truth through which we see that which is often translucent. And sometimes, through poets like you, it becomes vividly clear in the large middle that we call life. Thanks Eric, for graciously pausing to share such meaningful, personal thoughts. I’m inspired and blessed by your unscripted thoughts. I had musings along the same line last night, ironically enough, while sitting in the room of an ICU patient.

My mother-in-law, according to physicians, doesn’t have the vital signs to sustain life in her tired body much longer. In the last ten years, she’s had thyroid, colon, and brain cancer, hip replacement surgery, eye surgery, and several surgeries related to cancer, and so much more. Just over one year ago, her vascular dementia came to such a point that she moved into our home when she became unable to care for herself.

In the midst of all of the pain and turmoil illness and age, life and death bring, as I reflected near my mother-in-law’s apparent deathbed, I was reminded of the peace that passes understanding, which permeates every nook and cranny of the crazy chaos we call life–if and when we have the grace and vision to see it.

Life and death–maybe because they are so impactful, moving, and momentous–provide windows of truth through which we see that which is often translucent. And sometimes, through poets like you, it becomes vividly clear in the large middle that we call life.

]]> By: Nick http://www.ericpeters.net/2006/12/29/the-endurance-of-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-5214 Nick Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:40:30 +0000 http://www.ericpeters.net/index.php/2006/12/29/the-endurance-of-peace/#comment-5214 I was gone for a week at Angela's family, without internet access, and I come back to many crazy changes. Congratulations, friend. I wish you, Danielle, and little Ellis a life of adventure in Christ's love, and may peace be present throughout your lives. I was gone for a week at Angela’s family, without internet access, and I come back to many crazy changes.

Congratulations, friend. I wish you, Danielle, and little Ellis a life of adventure in Christ’s love, and may peace be present throughout your lives.

]]> By: Geof F. Morris http://www.ericpeters.net/2006/12/29/the-endurance-of-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-5210 Geof F. Morris Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:19:52 +0000 http://www.ericpeters.net/index.php/2006/12/29/the-endurance-of-peace/#comment-5210 Amen, Eric. Amen, Eric.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.ericpeters.net/2006/12/29/the-endurance-of-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-5204 Stephen Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:01:41 +0000 http://www.ericpeters.net/index.php/2006/12/29/the-endurance-of-peace/#comment-5204 Great post, Eric. Great post, Eric.

]]> By: rick from ga http://www.ericpeters.net/2006/12/29/the-endurance-of-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-5203 rick from ga Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:32:37 +0000 http://www.ericpeters.net/index.php/2006/12/29/the-endurance-of-peace/#comment-5203 Once again, pappy, you’ve used the tools of words to voice thoughts that have been trapped within my numbskull. Thank you.

When you hear people say, “It changes everything,� I thought I could predict, with my far-seeing childless brain, the potential contingencies. But the complexities that are fresh in your eloquent mind are chords that have struck deep within my new daddyhood and husbandry (Amen, to the wonder of the single mother!)

Thanks again for using God’s gift of communication to help those of us more challenged and … um … yeah … challenged.

r&m&g

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