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JUST A MOMENT: WALK THE LINE

April 30, 2025 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

We usually have no problems whatsoever walking the line if it happens to be a 4 inch line on the ground, BUT a 1 inch wide tight rope thin line 160 feet above Niagara Falls, well. . .we still have no trouble volunteering to walk that line or riding that line in a wheelbarrow. In fact, I’ll be the first one to VOLUNTEER YOU or SOMEONE ELSE to walk that line and others that might bring me danger, even if it means going from one significant point to another important place one treacherous step at a time.

Can you walk that line?

Or do you volunteer me or somebody else, too?

JUST A MOMENT: AT THE LINE

September 25, 2024 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

LINES_______________LINES________________________LINES~~

There are so many different L I N E S in our life. . .
Some of them mean that it’s beginning. . .
Some LINES mean that it’s an ending. . .
SOME are there because we’re supposed to draw a line in the sand and make a statement. . .
SOME make you choose one this side of that line or that side of that line
or. . . or. . . or. . .
maybe it’s that you stay in the line
you color outside that line
or maybe it’s a firm boundary
maybe it’s a warning
don’t cross that line
Look at all the lines that are in front of you right now
and look at all the lines that are being drawn. . .
but not with our pen
not with our marker
what line means the most to you right now. . .
and is it one that invites others
or is it one that keeps others out. . .
is the line formed into a circle
or just a line of line of what__________________
YOU DECIDE
What your line means to yourself
and absolutely to others. . .

GETTING IN LINE

October 30, 2020 By ChuckBehrens 2 Comments

Every minute someone leaves this world behind.
We are all in “THE LINE” without knowing it.
We never can know how many people are before us.
We can not move to the back of the line.
We can not step out of the line.
We can not avoid the line.

So while we wait in the line–

Make moments count.
Make priorities.
Make the time.
Make your gifts known.
Make a nobody feel like a somebody.
Make your voice heard.
Make the small things big.
Make someone smile.
Make the change.
Make love.
Make up.
Make peace.
Make sure to tell your people they are loved.
Make sure to have no regrets.
Make sure you are ready.

It’s never so much about what you read

so much as when you read it. . .

I’ve read this before and I thought it was great

but when I read it
R E A L L Y
saw and read it
again yesterday
(though I see it nearly everyday)

It took on a different tone
a way different meaning

after finding out about the COVID death of a friend
and then in a
THUNDEROUS
snap-of-the-finger-quickness
it was

personal
profound
prominent

I’m a day away from my 26th anniversary this October 31 of doing hospice work
or more
Hospice work doing me
and out of all of the daily lessons and affirmations
one of the biggest take-aways:

GOOD, BAD, RICH, POOR, BLACK/WHITE, HETEROSEXUAL/LGBTQ, YOUNG/OLD, RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL/AGNOSTIC,ATHEISTS, REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRAT/INDEPENDENTS

and yes, even

HOSPICE Staff and their Families

are not exempt from–

are actually each born with a

terminal sexually transmitted disease

called

L I F E

It’s not a lie

but a truth

we’ve never been able to eliminate or soften it

no matter what the unanswerable’s
of the

why
what-for
how-come’s
of it all
. . .all made all the more horrible by

that gives

G R I E F

its ultimate power and authority

THE ANSWER

may not be so much the Buddhist

shrug-of-the-shoulder:

“BEFORE ENLIGHTENMENT, CHOP WOOD AND CARRY WATER
AFTER ENLIGHTENMENT, CHOP WOOD AND CARRY WATER”

So much as

The antidote and the Porcupine of Grief:

L O V E

If in the end

DEATH

is inevitable

make sure

L O V E

is inescapable

as we take our place

IN LINE

Psssssssssssssssssssssst of the DAY:

. . .SO LIVE
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