Comments on: From the iMonk Archives: There’s Always A Day Before

By: à¹€à¸žà¸¥à¸‡mp3

à¹€à¸žà¸¥à¸‡mp3 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:17:28 +0000

Thank you for everything. Very useful

By: Christiane

Christiane — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:04:53 +0000

Thank you. I was hoping someone could arrange an annointing for Michael, if it would be meaningful to him. I don’t know what ‘the rules’ are. I just want him to have the blessing.

By: Quote of the Day (Before) - In The Agora

Quote of the Day (Before) - In The Agora — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:40 +0000

[...] Spencer, from a remarkable essay published in November 2009, before his own cancer diagnosis. He captured perfectly the strange “before and after” [...]

By: DMD

DMD — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:49:30 +0000

Like iMonk, I am battling cancer, and this essay amazes me. He captured perfectly the strange before and after world those of us facing potentially fatal illnesses live in–before even receiving his own diagnosis–and the proper Christian response. I’m praying for the iMonk, and I hope he continues to write about his journey.

Christiane–my Lutheran pastor did an anointing of oil for me when I was first diagnosed, so there are some Protestants who do that.

By: JoanieD

JoanieD — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:53:23 +0000

Russ, I think many of us join you in not living fully in the present day. I know I do not. I hope that I will do better this year. I tend to be a worrier.

By: RussWrites

RussWrites — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:20:41 +0000

There’s a preciousness found in the present that I seem to lose most days. I live in the past, with regrets and celebrations, or the future, with fears and plans, and lose the only day I ever truly hold. Today. Thanks for the reminder.

By: JIm E

JIm E — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:18:02 +0000

Michael,

With the single digit temps Sunday morning, we wimped out and did not go to our little country So. Baptist church, so we had a family worship time. During that, I read this post to wife, son & daughter. It was possibly the very first time son & daughter (at ages 20 and 17 repsectively) had ever really pondered the fact that things will not always stay the same, and definitely the concept of “the day before”. Great discussions and no little soul searching.

I love this post… thanks for rerunning it.

Jim E

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:36:33 +0000

This is timely for me as well, as I have had a family situation develop suddenly over the weekend.

By: dumb ox

dumb ox — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:01:57 +0000

In comparison, so many things don’t seem to matter – who is right or wrong about this or that doctrine. I’m in the ER today getting poked and prodded. So humbling and sobering.

By: theophilus monk

theophilus monk — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:25:36 +0000

this post reminded me of my last lunch with my best friend the day before he suddenly died at 46 of cardiac arrest. we usually ate at this one italian place every week near the university where we taught and we would sit across the table from one another, one of those square tables with four seats. he was sort of ‘homophobic’ i guess in the sense that he never would sit in the seat 90 degrees from mine, but only across from me, probably thought it was too close for comfort. but strangely, and this last memory still stays with me, the day before he died he sat at lunch in the right chair next to me, i thought at that time how strange, the next day he was gone, and that is as close to him as i will ever be until we meet again in eternity.

michael i’m praying for you everyday!