It is with tremendous sadness I am delivering the message that Chip's wife Elva Morris passed away about 1:00 today. He thanks everyone for the continuing thoughts and prayers we have shared with him throughout this unbelievably terrible year.
How much can one man endure? My thoughts and prayers will continue but they just don't seem to be sufficient. There has to be more we can do.
a person can never have too many prayers.
one of my favorites:
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace!
That where there is hatred, I may bring love.
That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness.
That where there is discord, I may bring harmony.
That where there is error, I may bring truth.
That where there is doubt, I may bring faith.
That where there is despair, I may bring hope.
That where there are shadows, I may bring light.
That where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted.
To understand, than to be understood.
To love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.
