Clive Cabey is a brother to me in the deepest sense of the word. We were college roommates and best man at each other's weddings. We taught together at Hackett Catholic HS in Kalamazoo, MI, and left the Catholic church together to join the Vineyard. We've shared intense joys and sorrows together. Last week Clive lost his father to cancer. I wanted to share (with his permission) an email Clive sent about his father's passing. As you read it, think of Paul's words from Philippians 3:10-11, "I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead." Please keep Clive and his mother in your prayers.
Around 3:30AM this morning my father, Charles Cabey, went to be with the Lord. As many of you may remember he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in February of this year. His last days with us were hard as he suffered much. But they were inspiring because we saw him being transformed day by day more & more into the likeness of Our Lord. Wednesday morning he awoke from being in a deep sleep for several days and he called for me saying that he was to die soon. Emily & I went over to my parents' & sat at his bedside. He opened his eyes and told me " God is alive. God is alive in all things. Jesus is THE Lord not A Lord. Jesus is not the Lord in certain things. He is the Lord in ALL things". He told us how much he loved us and then he said he was happy. I prayed with him and read the Psalms with him & as weak as he was he repeated several of the verses as I read them. These were his last words to me as he went back into a deep sleep that he did not awake from until he went to be with the Lord this morning. The Sunday before he indicated that he was beginning to experience the presence & the light of the Lord. For weeks before he died his every waking moment was spent vocally praising and giving thanks to God. In the past few years I have witnessed my father becoming more and more like Christ and growing to be a man of great faith and purity of heart. The past few months tested his faith but did not destroy it. Instead his faith was strengthened even more... I can only hope to be more like him as he persevered in his faith in God's goodness and his praise of our Lord to the very end.
My Dad went home to be with our Lord. I wanted to share with you his final words. And to ask you to pray for us to have strength and to be able to immitate his faith.
Monday, October 30, 2006
Monday, October 23, 2006
thoughts from captain sacrament
it's been a little busy lately so not much time to blog. i did come across thes following links from kyle potter and thought they we're definitely worth sharing.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
learning from the amish
I don't agree with all aspects of Anabaptist theology, but was really touched by the comments by the Amish in the aftermath of the shooting this week. From an article on CNN:
A grieving grandfather told young relatives not to hate the gunman who killed five girls in an Amish schoolhouse massacre, a pastor said on Wednesday.
"As we were standing next to the body of this 13-year-old girl, the grandfather was tutoring the young boys, he was making a point, just saying to the family, 'We must not think evil of this man,' " the Rev. Robert Schenck told CNN.
"One person who had had almost daily encounters with him said that she noted that he never looked into anyone's eyes, he never looked into anyone's faces, and she knew that there was something deeply troubling about him," Schenck said.
"Although she did say, she was very careful to say, that Charles Roberts was not an evil person. That he was a deeply troubled man, that he had, in her words -- the sort of modest words of the Amish -- that he had problems of the heart."
A grieving grandfather told young relatives not to hate the gunman who killed five girls in an Amish schoolhouse massacre, a pastor said on Wednesday.
"As we were standing next to the body of this 13-year-old girl, the grandfather was tutoring the young boys, he was making a point, just saying to the family, 'We must not think evil of this man,' " the Rev. Robert Schenck told CNN.
"One person who had had almost daily encounters with him said that she noted that he never looked into anyone's eyes, he never looked into anyone's faces, and she knew that there was something deeply troubling about him," Schenck said.
"Although she did say, she was very careful to say, that Charles Roberts was not an evil person. That he was a deeply troubled man, that he had, in her words -- the sort of modest words of the Amish -- that he had problems of the heart."
being Christ-like
I don't agree with all aspects of Anabaptist theology, but was really touched by the comments by the Amish in the aftermath of the shooting this week. From an article on CNN:
,/em>A grieving grandfather told young relatives not to hate the gunman who killed five girls in an Amish schoolhouse massacre, a pastor said on Wednesday.
"As we were standing next to the body of this 13-year-old girl, the grandfather was tutoring the young boys, he was making a point, just saying to the family, 'We must not think evil of this man,' " the Rev. Robert Schenck told CNN.
"One person who had had almost daily encounters with him said that she noted that he never looked into anyone's eyes, he never looked into anyone's faces, and she knew that there was something deeply troubling about him," Schenck said.
"Although she did say, she was very careful to say, that Charles Roberts was not an evil person. That he was a deeply troubled man, that he had, in her words -- the sort of modest words of the Amish -- that he had problems of the heart."
,/em>A grieving grandfather told young relatives not to hate the gunman who killed five girls in an Amish schoolhouse massacre, a pastor said on Wednesday.
"As we were standing next to the body of this 13-year-old girl, the grandfather was tutoring the young boys, he was making a point, just saying to the family, 'We must not think evil of this man,' " the Rev. Robert Schenck told CNN.
"One person who had had almost daily encounters with him said that she noted that he never looked into anyone's eyes, he never looked into anyone's faces, and she knew that there was something deeply troubling about him," Schenck said.
"Although she did say, she was very careful to say, that Charles Roberts was not an evil person. That he was a deeply troubled man, that he had, in her words -- the sort of modest words of the Amish -- that he had problems of the heart."
